Bravo’s “Top Chef” reigned supreme among cable shows Wednesday night, taking the top spot and matching its previous season high. At 10 p.m., “Chef” scored a 1.8 rating/5 share among adults 18-49 and drew 3.3 million viewers, according to national…
Early “American Idol” favorite Joanna Pacitti was disqualified from the top 36 of the Fox singing competition even though she was included in the top bunch on Wednesday’s episode, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to an unnamed source close…
FX has ordered a sixth season of series “Rescue Me” from Sony Pictures Television. “Rescue Me” is set to start its 22-episode fifth season on April 7. The sixth-season order is for 18 episodes. The network also said that “Rescue…
Producer-directors Rory Kennedy and Liz Garbus will deliver the closing keynote address at Mipdoc 2009. The address by Ms. Kennedy and Ms. Garbus on “Social Change Through Documentary” will be held March 29. Ms. Kennedy and Ms. Garbus will share…
Online microblogging services like Twitter, a popular social media tool for many media companies and television networks, are used by 11% of online Americans, according to a research report conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project in December and…
ABC has revealed the matchups for the upcoming season of “Dancing With the Stars,” People Magazine reports. “Access Hollywood” host Nancy O’Dell will be dancing with Ton Dovolani, rapper Lil’ Kim will be paired with Derek Hough and actor David…
Univision ranks as the most pirated broadcast network on YouTube, Advertising Age reports, citing findings from Web video analytics company TubeMogul. The 10 most-pirated shows from the Spanish-language network tracked 586 million views on the Web video site, compared with…
USA has canceled series “The Starter Wife” due to the show’s low ratings, Entertainment Weekly reports. The series, starring Debra Messing, began as a six-hour miniseries last year and drew about 5 million viewers, but then averaged 2.4 million viewers…
CBS College Sports Network will celebrate Black History Month with the debut of the documentary “Stomping on the Yard” on Feb. 19. The 90-minute documentary follows eight teams competing at Super Stomp, the National Step Show Championship, in Philadelphia. Also…
U2 will be the musical guest on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” for the entire week of March 2. The band, whose new album comes out March 3, will perform each night for five consecutive days. This is the…