ABC is seriously considering slotting new 20th Century Fox TV-produced comedy “Better Off Ted” Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m., pairing the show with “Scrubs.” That’s the word from a person with knowledge of the matter, who cautioned that no final decision…
NBC is tweaking its weekend schedule a bit, shifting “Lipstick Jungle” to an earlier Friday night timeslot and moving desert island drama “Crusoe” to Saturdays. Starting Friday, Dec. 5, “Jungle” will move to 9 p.m. Fridays, airing an hour earlier…
ABC’s owned-and-operated New York City station, WABC-TV, is getting creative with its afternoon newscasts, the New York Daily News reports. The station has so far aired four live half-hour specials at 5:30 in which it sent reporters to different parts…
Actress Polly Bergen is returning to ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” TV Guide reports. Bergen will reprise her role as the deadbeat mom of Lynette, played by Felicity Huffman. The last time Bergen appeared, Lynette had sent her character packing to live…
Former Republican presidential candidate and U.S. senator Fred Thompson plans to return to acting, the Associated Press reports. Thompson had been expected to run for chairman of the Republican National Committee, but he decided to stick with acting. “He seriously…
President-elect Barack Obama appeared in a 90-second video message that was played today in Istanbul before the European Olympic Committee, the largest regional group in the Olympic movement, the Associated Press reports. Obama made a personal appeal to the body…
TheWB.com is celebrating the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday by putting all nine Thanksgiving episodes of “Friends” in one spot for the first time. The Web site also features Thanksgiving-themed episodes from “Everwood,” “The OC,” “Gilmore Girls” and “In Living Color,” as…
Comcast’s digital cable, Internet and telephony services will be available in 400 Sears stores throughout the country in a new marketing agreement between Comcast Corp. and the retailer, Multichannel News reports. One hundred of those stores will carry a Comcast…
Local search network Local.com has announced the integration of local video ads throughout its local search Web site, MediaPost reports. “Local video bridges the product gap that exists between businesses that advertise in print, but perhaps don’t have the budget…
T-Mobile USA has named Yahoo the official search engine for most of its mobile phones, MediaPost reports. Web2go comes complete with a customizable home page that provides news, financial information, weather, Flickr photos and Web images, MediaPost says. Yahoo will…