TV News: Fox powerhouse dominates Tuesday with two-hour show — Fox’s “American Idol,” expanded to two hours once again, dominated the ratings landscape on Tuesday, a night that saw below-average scores elsewhere. ABC’s “Lost” and CBS’ “NCIS” were the night’s top scripted series in various categories.
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‘American Idol’ rolls to victory
TV News: Slot machine maker to develop new characters — Fields Corp., a maker of pinball and slot machines, will acquire Tsuburaya, the producer of the iconic “Ultraman” sci-fi series, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Fields takes over Ultraman producer
TV News: Nordisk’s Spodsberg to head division — Stephane Courbit’s Paris-based Banijay Ent. Group has created a worldwide distribution division, Banijay Intl., and tapped Karoline Spodsberg, currently Nordisk Film TV World international director, as its managing director.
TV News: French docu has sold to 33 territories — British broadcast network Channel 4 has taken U.K. terrestrial TV rights to Gallic docu series “Apocalypse: The Second World War.”
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U.K.’s C4 takes ‘Apocalypse’
TV News: Kids’ animation has aired in 100 countries — Italian pubcaster RAI has inked free-to-air TV rights to top-selling CGI pre-school series “Pocoyo.”
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Italy’s RAI takes ‘Pocoyo’
TV News: BBC nabs 18 awards, including two for ‘Small Island’ — The much-feted U.S. show “Mad Men” triumphed for the second year running at the U.K.’s Royal Television Society’s Program Awards.
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‘Mad Men’ wins U.K.’s RTS prize
TV News: Exec to head up original programming — Former TV Guide Network development exec Kristin Peace has joined Trifecta Entertainment to head up original programming.
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Peace joins Trifecta
TV News: Charlie Sheen returns to set — Production resumed Tuesday on CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” as star Charlie Sheen reported to the set, as expected.
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‘Men’ production resumed
TV News: ‘Hired’ to join ‘Silent Library’ weekdays — MTV has greenlit a nonscripted series following recent college graduates struggling to find work in the current economy, with a premiere date of May 6.
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MTV employs job-seeker series
TV News: Perlmutter has Fox, MSNBC, CNN background — E! has created a new position of senior vice president for news and online, and the cabler has hired former Fox Business Network exec producer Bruce Perlmutter to fill it.
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New news exec reports to E!
