Even after adding in delayed viewing by people using digital video recorders, the audience for programs on broadcast TV is getting smaller again this season, the Wall Street Journal reports. Prime time viewership on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the…
Fox News has signed Bill O’Reilly to host his cable news show for another four years, the Washington Post reports. O’Reilly tells the Post he decided to put himself through more “attacks and smears” by extending his tour at Fox….
Sumner Redstone, who has been forced by the stock market downturn to sell shares in Viacom and CBS, is seeking a divorce from his wife after 5½ years of marriage, the Wall Street Journal says. A prenuptial agreement calls for…
ABC picked up drama “Private Practice” for a full season, ordering nine more episodes from ABC Studios, TelevisionWeek says. The order come as the series’ ratings has been sinking, although it wins its timeslot and tops Wednesday nights among young…
The sketch comedy company Second City Entertainment has signed a first-look deal with CBS Paramount Network TV, Daily Variety reports. Under the contract, CBS Paramount will work with the troupe’s performers and writers to work on potential projects for the…
News Corp COO Peter Chernin, winner of a Freedom of Speech Award, says that if the Supreme Court doesn’t rule against the Federal Communications Commission on its enforcement of indecency violations, the First Amendment would be threatened, TelevisionWeek says. The…
The CW’s look at the fashion world, reality series “Stylista,” manages to escalate the clichés of Seventh Avenue, the New York Times says. The shows proves that “people are apparently capable of annihilating each other in novel ways. You can…
Fox has tapped newcomer Ben Koldyke to star in its highly anticipated pilot “Boldly Going Nowhere,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Koldyke will join “Arrested Development” vet Tony Hale in the comedy about life on an intergalactic spaceship. “Nowhere” comes from…
Comcast Corp. will be cutting 300 positions across its Eastern Division, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports. The cuts come after the company merged six of the unit’s regions into four. The company will eliminate jobs mostly at the division and…
Most of the top shows in program ratings are also the top shows when measured by commercial ratings, the yardstick used by ad buyers to guarantee their spots are being seen by the number of viewers they bargained for. The…