In a first-ever, milestone deal, Netflix has bought the syndication rights to the AMC cult/critical favorite "Mad Men," reports the Los Angeles Times Company Town blog. The series has also won multiple Emmys, including Best Drama. According to the article,…
An investigative TV journalist who was with ABC News and is now with CBS News denied a report that he was an informant for the FBI when he was with ABC, The New York Times reports. According to the article,…
CBS Sports and Turner Sports have reported ratings for the combined NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, declaring that the tournament was the most-watched since 2005. “March Madness” coverage averaged 10.2 million total viewers, with…
Former CNN stalwart Larry King, who recently vacated his seat as the cable news channel’s 9 p.m. host, will be making a return to television, reports TVNewser.com. King has been tapped to interview Tavis Smiley on PBS this week. The…
If one is to believe all that one reads, it seems clear that Katie Couric may become a daytime talk show host once she ends her contract–in June–as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News." TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck…
Twentieth Television announced today that its animated sitcom “Futurama” has been sold in 90% of the U.S. market for its broadcast premiere as a syndicated weekend show, set for September 2011. Among the major station groups that are on board…
Discovery announced today that it has rebranded one of its channels, complete with a snazzy new morphing logo, TheWrap.com reports. The channel is Science Channel, which will now be known simply as Science. The new logo is called Morph. Effective…
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game between Butler and the University of Connecticut led CBS to a ratings win Monday night in the 18-49 demo, but ABC rode a two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” to a win in total viewers,…
Star Jones, a former co-host of "The View," appeared Monday on HLN’s "The Joy Behar Show," where she berated the host for never reaching out to her after Jones left the ABC talk show, according to PopEater.com. Jones and Behar…
Kate Gosselin is reportedly concerned that if "Kate Plus 8’s" viewership drops, this season will be the show’s last on TLC, reports PopEater’s Naughty but Nice blog. One insider says the benchmark is 1 million viewers, and if the show…