Former TV reporter Amy Jacobson won a court round in her defamation lawsuit when a Cook County, Illinois judge allowed her suit against CBS Broadcasting Inc. to go forward, the Chicago Tribune reports. Jacobson is suing over the way CBS’s…
CBS-owned TV.com more than tripled its unique viewers in January, according to Nielsen VideoCensus, MediaPost reports. CBS is adding social-networking features to the site to better compete with the NBC and News Corp. joint venture Hulu.com, the trade publication says….
Because only a handful of big advertisers are using Google’s television-ad service and due to a deep distrust of the company in the TV industry, it begs the question of whether the Internet company will pull the service, as it…
HBO’s “John Adams” won the Costume Designers Guild Awards for TV movie/minseries, while ABC’s “Ugly Betty” won in the contemporary TV series category for the third year in a row, the Hollywood Reporter says. AMC’s “Mad Men” picked up its…
James Tupper has been hired for NBC’s pilot “Mercy,” a project from Universal Media Studios about three nurses working at Mercy Hospital, the Hollywood Reporter says. Tupper’s character, a new doctor at the hospital, had previously had an affair with…
James Sun, a runner-up on the sixth season of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” said his appearance on the show has helped him raise funding from some investors for his start-up, a local mapping service called Zoodango, the Los Angeles Times reports….
New York television executives Cary Glotzer and Michael Yudin are merging their content-development and production firms to form a venture named MY-Tupelo Entertainment, the Hollywood Reporter says. The firm will create and produce reality, documentary, sports and entertainment content for…
Ratings for Sunday’s Daytona 500 on Fox Sports slipped to 16 million viewers from last year’s 17.8 million, after the race was called because of rain with 48 laps yet to be completed, the Hollywood Reporter says. It marked lowest…
MC Hammer, his wife and five children later this year will appear in an A&E reality show called “Hammertime”, which its executive producer compares with an unscripted version of “The Cosby Show,” the Hollywood Reporter says. “Here’s a dad with…
Tennis Channel is monitoring developments in next week’s ATP World Tour Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, after the network decided not to televise the women’s tournament because the United Arab Emirates refused to issue an entry visa to an Israeli…