Fox is feeling happy about “Glee,” greenlighting the Ryan Murphy musical drama to series. The network has ordered 13 episodes of the 20th Century Fox TV project, which has been on the development fast track since it was first announced…
A group of high-profile Screen Actors Guild members have signed a letter urging SAG board members, officers and staff to avoid a strike authorization and instead band with other unions at a later date for new contracts with producers, Deadline…
Mott’s has signed “Desperate Housewives” star Marcia Cross to be the face for its new advertising campaign, AdWeek reports. The campaign marks the first for the company on TV in more than 10 years and will incorporate print and Web…
Consumption of news through cable TV and the Internet has grown the most during the last year compared to other mediums, TVNewser reports, citing new information from Gallup. According to the firm’s annual poll, those two were the only media…
Jane Espenson, a former writer-producer for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” is defending Joss Whedon’s new Fox series, “Dollhouse,” from the negative attention it has been receiving in light of forced production breaks, Sci Fi Wire reports. Espenson, who serves as…
NBC’s “Meet the Press” had the biggest audience among total viewers Sunday, but the show finished the day in second among viewers 25-54, TVNewser says. The episode marked David Gregory’s first as the permanent moderator on the Sunday morning news…
CBS Corp. has joined other television companies in cutting staff to trim budgets, with two top executives at the company’s television studio and several mid-level network staffers among the casualties. Maria Crenna, the head of development for CBS Paramount, is…
Science fiction enthusiasts are starting to grow skeptical that Ron Moore’s new space/virtual reality series “Virtuality” will ever see the light of day, io9 reports. The back-door pilot set up at Fox is under review and the site says the…
Tribune’s recent filing for bankruptcy and the way the media company resolves TV station debts with studios could set a precedent for the handling of future potential debt matters with other companies, Broadcasting & Cable reports. According to the filings,…
Pappas Telecasting Companies is expected to receive the go-ahead from a Delaware bankruptcy court to sell KDBC-TV and other stations it owns, the El Paso Times reports. The station’s new owner may be a New World TV Group, a company…