A new series on Starz found a big audience for its premiere episode, which rolled out Saturday night on the linear channel after online sampling during the week leading up to the premiere. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that…
A political pioneer who was one of the first female polling experts to advise presidential campaigns, and who later worked for CBS News, has died. The Washington Post reports that Dotty Lynch died Aug. 10. She was 69. Lynch died…
A popular Fox comedy series has landed a syndication deal involving two cable channels. In a scoop for Deadline.com, our good friend Nellie Andreeva writes: “TBS and MTV will share the basic cable syndication rights to Fox comedy ‘New Girl’…
FX’s anthology series “American Horror Story” is adding a Grammy-winning singer to the cast. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the series has been joined by Patti LaBelle. She will appear in four episodes of the show, portraying the mother of…
The sadness most of us feel about the death of Robin Williams is palpable. I spent a few minutes with him at a family event a number of years ago and felt his warmth, generosity and sincerity. The occasion was…
Bloomberg has named a new head of U.S. live television, filling a spot left open by the departure last year of Andrew Morse for CNN. TVNewser reports that Bloomberg hired Claudia Milne, who joins the news organization from BBC News….
USA Network has given a fifth season to its flagship drama “Suits.” Deadline.com reports that the series will return in the summer of 2015 for 16 episodes, the same number of installments as the current fourth season. The show’s midseason…
Richard Price, the novelist and “The Wire” writer, is working on a new TV project, which is an adaptation of the BBC’s limited series “Inside Men,” reports Deadline.com. Price is writing the project for Howard Gordon’s Teakwood Lane, based at…
With Amazon Studios still releasing shows from its second cycle of pilots, it’s already moving ahead with its third pilot season, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. Amazon will ask viewers to watch and rate the fresh crop of…