EXCLUSIVE: Demian Gregory and James Franco have partnered to produce four feature films with budgets in the $15 million-$20 million range. The first title under the deal is The Game, based on the bestselling book — part memoir, part how-to guide — by Neil Strauss about how to become a successful pick-up artist. Franco…

To celebrate next month’s 10th anniversary of the CW, the network announced this morning at TCA it is adding comedies Girlfriends, and spinoff The Game as well as Everybody Hates Chris to CW Seed the digital-only studio of The CW. Chris, based on Chris Rock’s childhood. Launching on CW precursor UPN in fall of ’05, it…

Sometimes even platinum-selling rappers need help finding love. Witness VH1’s once-and-future celebreality contestant The Game (nee Jayceon Taylor), whose quest for the perfect woman will chronicled on the cable network’s new dating competition She’s Got Game. If the name Game sounds familiar to reality dilettantes…

It's not James Bond and there's more grime than glamour, but the latest offering from BBC America is well worth playing. Debuting tonight, spy drama The Game, as my video review says, seductively plugs into our renewed fascination with the intrigues and very high stakes of the Cold War. In this case, it is a Britain…

Five months after renewing Mara Brock Akil's The Game for an eighth season, BET this evening announced that its flagship comedy will be coming to an end. But before it bows out, The Game will get one more season, 9, which will be its last. Filming is underway on both Seasons 8 and 9, which will begin airing in early…

As women's roles continue to expand in society, so too are their roles growing on television. More than ever, capturing the female audience is vital to a show’s success, and that was the subject of Sunday's smart and funny "Courting the Female Audience" panel at the Producers Guild‘s Produced By conference. "Women are…

BET announced its first miniseries as part of its upcoming lineup presented to advertisers at its upfront today in New York. The network also confirmed an eighth season for The Game, Season 3 for The Real Husbands Of Hollywood and a previously announced second season for Being Mary Jane, along with renewals for video…

After recurring in four episodes of Season 7 of The Game, Brittany Daniel has been promoted to regular on the hit BET comedy series, which has just been picked up for an eighth season. Daniel, repped by APA, Inphenate and attorney Doug Stone, plays Kelly on the series, which follows the "football family" of the San…

BBC America announced this morning it had picked up a six part ’70s-set espionage thriller The Game from Toby Whithouse. Brian Cox stars in the project which is set to debut in the fall BBCA GM Perry Simon announced. Simon noted the network had its best year ever, ratings wise, including its best fourth quarter ever…

Jere Burns has been upped to regular after four seasons as a recurring on FX's Justified. Burns plays menacing heroin dope dealer Winn Duffy, who offered a partnership to Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) in the Season 4 finale. His recent roles include the cable dramas Breaking Bad, Bates Motel and Burn Notice. Burns is…

An average of 3.8 million people watched the sixth-season finale of BET's The Game at 10 PM last night, and 1.9 million watched the replay at 10:30. The episode is this season's No. 1 comedy series telecast on all of cable among women 18-49 (1.7 million). The sitcom that follows the "football family" of the San Diego…

The midseason return of BET's The Game and the pilot premiere of Being Mary Jane proved a winner for the cable network last night. The 90-minute Being Mary Jane was the highest-rated show on cable and the second-highest-rated program on all of TV on Tuesday with a 2.0 rating. Only NBC's America's Got Talent did better…