The resurrection of Arrested Development is one of the best examples of what can happen when dedicated fans stand up for shows they believe in. Fox canceled Arrested Development in 2006 after three seasons. It was a show that was adored by critics, but could never pull in the ratings necessary to sustain its survival. After being off the air for more than five years, it was revealed Arrested Development will return with a new season and a movie. We now know Netflix will be exclusively debuting the new season in 2013.

DirecTV continues to be successful in diffusing disagreements with network content providers before things got too out of hand. DirecTV customers were on the verge of losing a lot of Fox channels such as FX, Speed and the National Geographic Channel due to a pricing dispute with Fox. DirecTV felt Fox asking customers to pay 40 percent more a month for the same channels was unfair. Unless the two came to an agreement, several Fox channels would have been suspended starting November 1. Well you don’t have to worry about that now. DirecTV and Fox reached an agreement hours before the deadline to keep those channels flowing to DirecTV customers.

DirectTV customers are finding themselves days way from potentially having 25 fewer channels than they do now. Bloomberg reports DirecTV may pull Fox-owned channels such as National Geographic and FX as early as the beginning of November. DirecTV and Fox has to reach an agreement on pricing or else those channels will disappear.

Hot on the heels of the Netflix and DreamWorks licensing agreement comes news about a deal reached by Amazon and Fox. Amazon Prime customers will have the ability to watch Fox television programs and movies sometime this fall.

Fox is trying a new strategy to gain a following for its upcoming sitcom New Girl. The show will debut on Fox Tuesday September 20, but the pilot episode is available to download right now for free on iTunes.

After Fox decided to make Hulu users wait eight days for the release of new episodes, the piracy levels of their shows have more than doubled since. It is likely that Fox was seeking to get more viewers to watch the original broadcasts and thus increase ad prices. TorrentFreak tracked the piracy levels of two more »

A lot of people (myself included) have cut the cable cord in favor of internet-fueled media consumption. The logic that led to this decision was simple. The way I saw it, I never watched that many television shows on cable anyway. I could just go online and watch them the next day while saving money at the same time. Well, the networks have gotten wise to devious little plans such as this. Fox for example, will soon delay the online releases of some of its shows for customers who don’t pay for television service.

Time Warner Cable is having some trouble with delivering content to its subscribers with its iPad app. It seems that programmers aren’t exactly happy with having their content on more than just TV screens without getting more money. Because of complaints, Time Warner Cable is removing channels from Viacom, Fox and Discovery from the TWCable more »

Major movies studios such as 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony and Universal are ready to release a new video on-demand service at the end of April. The service is called Home Premiere and it offers movie rentals for films that have been in theaters for two months. Each movie will cost $30 to rent for 48 to 72 hours. This VOD service is meant to grab customers who would have missed new movies as soon as they were released in theaters.

You’d have to be blind not to see Microsoft trying to shove Windows 7 into the living rooms of America through TV commercials. The most recent — the gaggy sweet little girl making rainbow and flower pages though, is in my opinion, not their best effort. But, that effort is now veering in a new more »