NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" will have a familiar face back as host and musical guest on its March 9 episode. Making his fifth hosting appearance on the show will be singer Justin Timberlake, TVGuide.com reports. The appearance is slated for…
Soledad O’Brien, who is leaving her CNN anchor role on "Starting Point" but will work on documentaries in partnership with the cable network, said her show didn’t receive "a ton of support and didn’t get a ton of marketing and…
Pat Derby, an animal trainer who worked on shows such as "Lassie" and "Flipper," has died, reports The New York Times. She was 69. Derby, who died of cancer, was one of the earliest animal rights advocates to work on…
20th Century Fox Television has signed a two-year overall deal with "Up All Night’ creator Emily Spivey, reports Deadline.com, noting that her first assignment under the pact will be working as a co-executive producer on the studio’s "Murder Police," an…
FX has ordered a second season of the series that recently set a record for the cable channel’s most-watched series debut. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the channel ordered a 13-episode second season of the drama "The Americans." The series…
A new comedy from "Scrubs" and "Cougar Town" creator Bill Lawrence and former "How I Met Your Mother" and "Friends" executive producer Greg Malins is having the finishing touches put on a pilot order from TBS, reports Deadline.com. The project,…
An Emmy-winning actress has been cast to play opposite “Up All Night’s” Will Arnett in the new Greg Garcia comedy pilot at CBS, Deadline.com reports. Margo Martindale, who won an Emmy in 2011 for her supporting role in the FX…
CNBC has bought "Nightly Business Report" from the investment company Atalaya Capital Management and will start producing it from its New Jersey headquarters on March 4, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. While the format will…
A pioneering producer who actively worked in TV from the late 1940s until the early 2000s has died at age 90. His name was Milt Hoffman, and he was born in Los Angeles in 1922. The first producing credit we could…
CBS has got an Academy Award-winning actress to star in one of its comedy pilots. She won an Oscar in 1995 as Best Supporting Actress and is the daughter of a famous actor. "Mira Sorvino is returning to her comedy…