Mediagazer: ICM Expanding Its Books-To-Film Division (Nikki Finke/Deadline.com)

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision Customers - And Turns It Back On [UPDATED] — UPDATE: That was fast. People familiar with the situation say that News Corp. is changing tactics and will turn on access to Fox.com and Fox programming on Hulu for Cablevision's customers.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, paidContent, CNN, Mediaite, Gizmodo, Runnin' Scared, Engadget, NYConvergence.com, Cablevision and Media Decoder, more at Techmeme »

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Fox Outage Approaches Second Day for Cablevision Subscribers — The blackout of the Fox network in Cablevision homes is all but certain to carry over to a second day, meaning that viewers may have a hard time watching the Giants football game on Sunday afternoon.

Discussion: New York Times and TVNewser

Amanda Andrews / Telegraph:

News Corp delays plans for ‘iPad’ news aggregation app — News Corporation, the owner of The Times and Sun newspapers, is understood have scaled back its plans for a news aggregation app. — The project, in which rival publishers would come together and offer an app on devices such as the iPad …

James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:

Again! Kutcher sells blog (a different one) to CBS — CBS continues to find new comedy ideas on the Internet. — The network has just bought a series concept from Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Productions and the Schiff Co. based on the blog and Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me.

Discussion: Perez Hilton and PopWatch

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Former Yahoo and Microsoft Exec Dossett to Demand Media — According to sources, Jeff Dossett has taken a job at Demand Media as its SVP of Content Partnership Development. — That means Dossett, who has held top online jobs at both Yahoo and Microsoft, will be focused …

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

ICM Expanding Its Books-To-Film Division — EXCLUSIVE: ICM has hired Nick Harris to co-head its books-to-film department in the agency's Los Angeles office. Harris and Josie Freedman will co-head the department, which also includes veteran agent Ron Bernstein. Harris is expected to join the agency on November 1st.

Dennis Romero / The Informer:

Marcia Parker, AOL Patch's West Coast Honcho, Says The News Site Will Address L.A.'s Diversity By Using Google Translate — In the last few months AOL's “hyper-local” news sites called Patch have been hard to ignore. Not only have they moved into some of Los Angeles County's …

Discussion: LA Observed and LAist

Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Breaking Business:

Lee Abrams resigns from Tribune Co. — Lee Abrams. (Handout) — Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams, who began the work week by sending a companywide e-mail that contained content deemed inappropriate, resigned Friday. — The e-mail, the latest in a weekly series …

Discussion: Romenesko, Tanner Friedman, The Informer, New York Times and rbr.com

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

YouTube Leanback Freshens Up For Google TV's Debut — One of the things that Google thinks you'll do with Google TV is watch a lot of Google video, via YouTube. That's why the search giant introduced a “Leanback” version of the site, designed for couch-bound surfers, over the summer.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Dikenta Dike / Forbes:

Gawker COO: Our Journalism Is Like Stir-Fry — The past few weeks have seen two major New York City magazines publishing long-form feature articles on Gawker Media founder Nick Denton - provocateur, raconteur, lover of bicycles and the choice table at SoHo's bistro Balthazar.

Discussion: Mixed Media, Silicon Alley Insider and Romenesko

David Kaplan / paidContent:

e5 Global Media Is Now Prometheus Global Media — It's been 10 months since a consortium of investors formed e5 Global Media and bought Nielsen's eight media-entertainment b2b brands—including The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, Mediaweek and others—and now is the time for a change.

Discussion: Folio, The Wrap and FishbowlNY

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Gannett's Digital Revs Continue To Surge, As Print Declines Recede — Digital revenues in Gannett's U.S. Community Publishing unit, which houses the company's 80 local papers, were up 10.2 percent in the quarter due to gains in virtually all ad categories. Meanwhile, flagship USA Today's …

Discussion: rbr.com