Christina Applegate, star of ABC’s comedy “Samantha Who?,” is fighting breast cancer but is expected to make a full recovery, the Associated Press reports, citing the actress’s spokeswoman. Applegate, who first became known as Al Bundy’s daughter on “Married…With Children,”…
A new reality show in which Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks to find an assistant provides a good look at how driven and intense the sleepless rap entrepreneur is, USA Today says. In “I Want to Work for Diddy,” premiering on…
The Screen Actors Guild will release the names of the candidates for its national board Tuesday, kicking off an election campaign as the union deals internal factions dueling for leadership at the same time it attempts to negotiate its contract…
With News Corp. set to announce earnings Tuesday, analysts are looking to see if the media company is going to be able to wring profits out of its MySpace social-networking site, the Wall Street Journal says. Earlier this year, News…
Fox has ordered a fifth season of its hit summer competition series, “So You Think You Can Dance,” TelevisionWeek reports. The series, executive produced and co-judged by “American Idol’s” Nigel Lythgoe, ranks among the top five most watched shows in…
There are some big celebrity stories brewing at Dallas Cowboys training camp, but those won’t be the focus of the upcoming season of HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” which follows players as they compete for jobs in the NFL, according to the…
NBC’s Olympics will take a big step toward increasing the amount of sports programming available to viewers on the Internet, the New York Times reports. College basketball, Major League Baseball, NASCAR and pro football viewers are also finding more of…
Broadcast networks run reality shows in the summer and cable networks roll out dramas, the Los Angeles Times discovers. And following a pattern set over the past few years, the ratings gap between the most viewed network shows and the…
A commercial by NBC Universal looking to promote both its coverage of the Olympics and the current film “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” is confusing to some viewers, the New York Times reports. NBC executives defend the spot….
Fox will begin rolling out its new “So Fox” branding campaign in the weeks leading up to the start of its fall season on Labor Day, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “The thing that’s important about this line is that it…