NBC has pulled from the Web a "Saturday Night Live" "Weenend Update" segment originally aired Dec. 5 in which comic Abby Elliot portrayed an "incoherent" Brittany Murphy, The Wall Street Journal reports. The skit was prompted by the late actress being fired from…
For the first time since being injured by a car bomb, CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier has returned to Iraq, reports TVNewser.com. Dozier, who spent months recovering from the May 2006 incident in which her soundman James Brolan and cameraman…
Former NBA great and current NBA commentator Charles Barkley will be the host of NBC’s first "Saturday Night Live" episode in 2010, the night of Jan. 9, according to The Wrap. Barkley last hosted "SNL" in 1993. The musical guest will…
The Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act (SHVERA) was scheduled to come to an end Dec. 31, but Congress voted Saturday to extend the act by 60 days, reports Multichannel News. The act allows for satellite providers to bring in out-of-market network…
Disney XD gave a series order for a live-action comedy, “Pair of Kings," that will premiere next fall, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The series stars Mitchel Musso ("Hannah Montana") and Doc Show ("House of Payne") as fraternal twins being raised…
Syfy wants to build interest in its upcoming series “Caprica” with an unusual Web rollout, Multichannel News reports. Sci-fi oriented Web sites will be allowed to stream the entire two-hour pilot of the series, which is a prequel to “Battlestar…
Radio company Citadel Broadcasting Corp., reeling under debt taken on when it merged with ABC Radio in 2006, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, the New York Times reports. The company, which owns 223 stations and syndicates Don Imus…