A new reality project that has just been acquired for cable steps into the realm of social experiment. Deadline.com reports that the project, with the working title “Escape Your Life,” was acquired by TNT. Three couples will be moved to…
In the history of movies, only 86 films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. One of them was “Gentleman’s Agreement,” released in 1947. It was based on a best-selling novel by Laura Z. Hobson and it was one…
Hulu is working on a nine-hour series based on a Stephen King time travel novel. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that the project is based on “11/22/63,” about a Maine high school teacher who can travel back in…
Celebrity TV chef Paula Deen, who fell from grace more than a year ago over her admitted use of the N-word, resurfaced on NBC’s “Today” show in an interview segment this morning with Matt Lauer. Time magazine reports that Deen…
Sony will begin selling the $99 PlayStation TV in the U.S. and Canada on Oct. 14, reports Re/Code. An additional $40 will gain consumers a PlayStation 3 controller, an eight gigabyte memory card and the Lego Movie video game, the…
A tribute to the late Joan Rivers by her show “Fashion Police” delivered a record audience for the show, with 1.1 million total viewers tuning in, reports Deadline.com. The special’s audience was more than double the year-earlier time period average,…
Movie studio MGM has bought a majority stake in Mark Burnett’s production company, One Three Media, and will create a new MGM unit called United Artists Media Group, reports The New York Times. One Three Media holds rights to reality…
The boss at Tribune Media received a little less than $9 million last year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, RobertFeder.com reports. Peter Liguori’s total compensation as the company’s CEO was about $8.8 million, the piece…
KTVA-TV reporter Charlo Greene gave what the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker calls “the ultimate sign-off” after reporting on efforts in Alaska to legalize marijuana and a medical marijuana business called the Alaska Cannabis Club. Greene revealed to viewers of…