If there’s a silver lining to Hurricane Gustav’s pounding of the Gulf Coast, it’s that the Weather Channel pulled in 65 million viewers as the storm threatened and then hit New Orleans and vicinity, Multichannel News reports. The network had…
The American Film Institute will announce the honorees for its annual AFI Awards on Dec. 14, Daily Variety reports. The deadline for television submissions is Oct. 31. The AFI Awards, which honor 10 of the year’s outstanding achievements in both…
Austin Nichols, who played the title character on HBO’s short-lived “John From Cincinnati” and a teacher on NBC’s “Friday Night Lights,” is joining the cast of The CW’s “One Tree Hill,” TV Guide reports. Details of the role have not…
Unlike NBC Universal, CBS won’t be pouring money into cable channels, the Silicon Alley Insider reports. During an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” CBS head Leslie Moonves said, “The average American household has 180 channels. The good news is they…
Heart’s Nancy Wilson is upset over the GOP’s use of her song, “Barracuda,” during the Republican National Convention on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Entertainment Weekly reports. After the song was used following Gov. Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech Wednesday evening Wilson…
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, will appear on ABC’s “The View” on Sept. 12. They will be the only featured guests during the episode, which kicks off the program’s “Red, White & View” campaign promoting…
Sarah Palin is the most searched-for political figure on the Internet in the last three years as measured by volume of searches in a one-week period, according to Hitwise. For the week ending Aug. 30, Internet searches for Alaska’s governor…
Nearly 39 million people watched Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s acceptance speech on the closing night of the GOP convention Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. That broke the week-old convention record of upwards of 38 million viewers set by Sen….