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HBO captured two of six overall awards and Bravo’s 13-year-old Real Housewives franchise won for Best Docusoap at today’s NATPE fourth annual Reality Breakthrough Awards. “There are seven Real Housewives cities and four spinoffs and I think this is our first award in 13 years,” laughed Jerry Leo, EVP at NBCUniversal…

A&E Network is bowing two new legal series in March, including a true crime docudrama and a live studio audience debate. The docudrama is hosted by former prosecutor Marcia Clark, while the live debate spotlights the skills of legal analysts Nancy Grace and Dan Abrams. The Clark series, Marcia Clark Investigates The Fi…

With true crime paying dividends for many media outlets of late, A+E Networks is pushing deeper into the space, investing in a new legal venture with media figure Dan Abrams. The programming partnership and investment will see a rebrand of Abrams’ website and live-streaming trial and law network, LawNewz.com, and the…

Today at 10 AM PT, the largest ever audience for a parole hearing about a botched penny-ante robbery will watch across a multitude of media outlets. Fox News Channel, MSNBC and HLN will have cameras trained on the hearing to determine the fate of former NFL great O.J. Simpson – even ESPN is getting in on the act…

UPDATED With Video Bill Maher did some last-minute and entirely expected monologue writing today, taking aim at Donald Trump’s Morning Joe tweets that prove, the Real Time host said, “you are never too rich to be white trash.” “Morning Joe is in a twitter feud with the Real Housewife of Pennsylvania Avenue,” Maher…

A&E Network’s Live PD was knocked off the air tonight after a power outage caused by an underground transformer explosion near A&E’s network studios. There were no injuries reported, but the studio was evacuated and the broadcast was suspended. Due to a power outage live broadcast operations for #LivePD have been…

The View producers have axed Nicolle Wallace as one of the show’s regular co-hosts but offered to bring back her head on a platter every so often and let it talk, as one of its stable of rotating guest contributors. File that under With Friends Like These. The former communications chief for George W. Bush and senior…

The View did some damage control today, with Whoopi Goldberg pulling a 180 on the subject of Bill Cosby after getting slammed for defending the comic against dozens of rape and drugging accusations. “I gotta say, all of the information that’s out there kinda points to ‘guilt’,” Whoopi said this morning when guest/ABC…

Byron Pitts is replacing Dan Abrams as Nightline anchor; Abrams will remain ABC News’ chief legal analyst, news division chief James Goldston announced this morning. Pitts came to ABC News in 2013, after serving as chief national correspondent for CBS Evening News and a 60 Minutes contributor. The memo: Team, I want…