Report: ABC wants NFL’s Thursday night games — what would happen to “Scandal”?
The NFL is shopping six to eight Thursday Night Football games, and ABC is planning to make a bid, according to Sports Business Daily. ABC hasn’t aired the NFL since the 2006 Super Bowl, and the Thursday package would shake up that night’s primetime lineup, including hit shows “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
A&E remaking “Highway to Heaven”
The cable network is teaming with Mark Wahlberg on an “edgier reboot” of the Michael Landon series from the late ’80s.
Jimmy Kimmel is taking his show to Austin for SXSW
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” will return to Texas for the week of March 10.
NBC orders “Salvation,” a Texas megachurch drama pilot
The series will follow a large family set against the backdrop of a Texas megachurch.
“Partridge Family” band manager Dave Madden dies
Madden, 82, played Reuben Kincaid, the Partridge’s aggravated band manager.