British regulators adopted a rule mandating that TV commercial must not be “excessively noisy or strident,” the New York Times reports. But it turns out measuring loudness is trickier than it sounds. American viewers have similarly complained that the volume…
Fox News star Bill O’Reilly’s attacks on the CEO of General Electric may be the latest outbreak in a feud with NBC and anchor Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, the Washington Post says. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes called NBC Universal…
Netflix is working with a small Silicon Valley company to provide customers with a set top box that will allow them to play thousands of movies instantly, the New York Times reports. The $99 device from Roku, might give the…
Michael Naidus was promoted to showrunner of “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson,” Daily Variety reports. Mr. Naidus, which started with the series more than a decade ago with host Tom Snyder and continued through Craig Kilborn, had been…
“Living Lohan,” featuring Lindsay Lohan’s mother’s efforts to promote sister Ali Lohan’s career, will also be used as a promotional vehicle for the Las Vegas properties of the Maloof Bros., who will produce the E! reality show, Daily Variety reports….
Eight former AOL executives were named in a civil suit by federal regulators charging they illegally inflated reports of ad revenue by more than $1 billion, the Washington Post reports. Among those named are former CFOs John Michael Kelly and…
Fox Broadcasting ordered 13 hours of “Hole in the Wall,” the competition series in which people contort themselves to fit into shapes cut into a wall, the Hollywood Reporter says. Overseas versions of the show, whose U.S. adaptation will be…
Ultimate Fighting champions Frank Shamrock will be in the booth for CBS’s first mixed martial arts broadcast, the Associated Press reports. Mr. Shamrock will be joined by veteran play-by-play man Gus Johnson announcing on “CBS Elitexc Saturday Night Fights,” which…
With the broadcast networks having unveiled their new schedules for fall 2008, the Washington Post went back to see what happened to the shows introduced last year. As always a large number of the shows touted then have been canceled….
NBC has given a series order to “Kings,” the two-hour drama pilot starring Ian McShane (“Deadwood”). The greenlight is somewhat anticlimatic, since the network announced last month that “Kings” would be part of its Sunday schedule come January. However, NBC’s…