Trade Round-Up: Football Stays Put
· Fox, CBS, and DirecTV hold on to the NFL for the insignificant sum of about $8 billion. In related news: Still no team in L.A., though the homeless guy down the street is fond of wearing an old Rams helmet. [THR]
· Carole Black will resign her post as president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment in March. We can only imagine the personal toll wrought by nearly six years of anorexia, breast cancer, and Valerie Bertinelli movies. [THR]
· Clubhouse strikes outs, is sent to the showers, is indicted in the BALCO case, or any other baseball-related metaphor that indicates it's not on television anymore. [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· Reese Witherspoon's Type A Productions is developing Janet Evanovich's bounty hunter mystery novel One for the Money for Columbia. We hope the book's about an adorably feisty bounty hunter, because Witherspoon's really got the adorably feisty thing down. [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· Were you hoping that the Golden Globes would end in a showdown of True Believers? The Hollywood Foreign Press has already stymied any hopes for a Fahrenheit 9/11 vs. The Passion of the Christ throw-down. Documentaries aren't eligible for any awards, while movies about Jesus getting his ass kicked for two hours are eligible—but only if they're in English. Maybe Moore and Gibson will get drunk and wrestle instead. [THR]