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…
Associated Television will produce a 90-minute documentary about black entertainers, Daily Variety reports. The executive producer will be Intrepid, whose co-founders are Blair Underwood and Tommy Morgan Jr., the newspaper says. —Danny King
Kathy Griffin continues to jab at celebrities in the new season of her Bravo show “My Life on the D-List,” USA Today says. This week’s season premiere takes a poke at Paula Abdul and shows a clip of Ms. Griffin’s…
Great American County’s “The Road Hammers,” about a Canadian country band trying to get signed to a record contract in Nashville, isn’t compelling enough to keep television audiences interested in the band’s story, the New York Times says. The series,…