NBC is planning to bring management of eight company-owned station Web sites back under its wings, Sillicon Alley Insider reports. NBC SVP of Local Integrated Media Brian Buchwald will helm the Web site operations with help from a stream of…
Jon Voight will join the cast of “24” to play the arch-enemy of Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer, the Hollywood Reporter says. Mr. Voight’s character will be introduced during the two-hour prequel to the series’ seventh season scheduled to air Nov….
Writers Guild of America members at Fox’s new animated comedy “Sit Down, Shut Up” walked off the job after discovering that co-producer Sony Pictures Television dictated that the writers would be covered by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees,…
Fox News Channel apologized for the third time in three weeks for what it said was poor judgment related to coverage of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, the New York Times reports. The most recent incident involved a headline…
New York Screen Actors Guild members criticized the guild’s leadership for spending $100,000 on a campaign to defeat the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists’ tentative agreement with the studios, the Los Angeles Times reports. The New York division,…
ABC should rack up a large share of this year’s Emmy nominations, according to USA Today critic Robert Bianco. He puts “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy” among the best dramas and “Ugly Betty” and “Pushing Daisies” on the list for best…
NBC signed Aziz Ansari from MTV comedy “Human Giant” to appear in its spinoff of “The Office,” Daily Variety reports. The casting is one of the first details to emerge about the new show, which is also expected to feature…
The Weather Channel, for which Time Warner is making a bid, would be complementary with TW’s CNN because of the news channel’s thorough weather coverage and cross-promotional opportunities, the New York Times says. Weather Channel Web site Weather.com, which attracts…
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have urged people to boycott cable news coverage for what they say was sexist coverage of the New York senator, the New York Times reports. Media members including NBC senior VP Phil Griffin…