It’s back-to-school time on TV already as retailers have their stock-up-for-September campaigns up and running amidst the heat of summer, USA Today reports. Wal-Mart has a campaign featuring “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus, while Sears is teaming up with MTV…
Former KYW-TV Philadelphia anchor Larry Mendte, charged with hacking into former colleague Alycia Lane’s email account 537 times over five months, acted as though he was obsessed, the Philadelphia Inquirer says. Details of the investigation of the case show that…
TV is providing sharply different images of presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama, who is touring the Middle East, and Sen. John McCain, when he is shown at all, the New York Times says. While Obama drew expansive coverage abroad, the…
The team behind the Emmy-nominated “Robot Chicken: Star Wars” episode is going forward with a sequel, the Hollywood Reporter says. The new episode, “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II,” will be directed by series co-creator Seth Green and is scheduled…
Last year, the CW headlined ads for its series “Gossip Girl” with the initials “OMFG.” For season two it will be showing characters from the programming in sexy poses, the Associated Press reports. In a twist, the photos are offset…
CNN’s “Black in America” recalls many of the best documentaries by engaging the heart as well as the brain, says Washington Post television critic Tom Shales. The series looks at the state of race relations in the U.S. as an…
Daniel Cerone will begin working on a U.S. adaptation of the Argentine series “Brothers & Detectives” for ABC, the Hollywood Reporter says. The network has ordered a put pilot for the show, which will be produced by ABC Studios as…
KDFW-TV, the Fox station in Dallas, is looking for a new weathercaster and has interviewed a 37-year-old meteorologist known for doing a “yogacast” and other comedy weather spots on YouTube, reports former Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark on…
Former “Queer as Folks” executive producer Del Shores has a new series, “Sordid Lives: The Series,” based on his movie, “Sordid Lives,” which was based on his play by the same name, the Los Angeles Times reports. Shores echoes Tyler…
WWE plans to tone its TV properties, “Raw” and “Friday Night Smackdown” down a notch in order to get TV-PG ratings, Daily Variety says. While “Smackdown,” which will make its jump from The CW to MyNetwork TV in the fall,…