Trade Round-Up: Iffy Nicolas Cage And Nancy Grace Impressions Fail To Lift 'Studio 60' In Ratings

The Weinstein Co.'s Genius Products makes a deal with the WWE to distribute home videos, collaborate on straight-to-video movies, and potentially use the wrestling league's stars to intimidate any filmmakers who stubbornly resist Harvey Weinstein's gentle suggestions about helpful edits. [Variety]
At an address to the Media Institute, outraged Viacom executive Sumner Redstone shook a fist at the FCC over its crackdown on indecent speech, claiming that the commission's heavy fines based on a small number of petitions have created "a world where entertainment and news executives, musicians and artists are living in a great deal of fear," a reign of terror that rivals even the one in which his underlings currently toil. [THR]
House creator David Shore and writer Peter Blake are writing a "light procedural drama" script for NBC, about a brilliant female cop who concocts unlikely crime-scene scenarios that are initially dismissed as crazy by her reflexively skeptical co-workers, but which are ultimately proven correct at the end of each episode. [Variety]
The Fox News Channel reaches a new carriage agreement with Cablevision, ensuring that the officially approved messages of the Bush Administration will reach the cable provider's subscribers without interruption. [THR]
Studio 60 NielsenWatch: Showing extended, behind-the-scenes footage of a bafflingly unfunny Nancy Grace sketch drops NBC's onetime presumed savior to its lowest numbers yet, off 15% from last week's ratings. [Variety]