NBC News has made a key hire in its executive ranks, filling the position of senior VP, editorial, by hiring Janelle Rodriguez, who has been working as VP, programming, at CNN. Deadline.com reports that Rodriguez will start her new job…
A show that is one of the flagship series for a small cable channel has been canceled. Variety reports that Pivot pulled the plug on “TakePart Live,” just two months after making changes to bolster the program. The live talk…
Aaron Sorkin and HBO are defending a recent episode of “The Newsroom” in the face of intense criticism and questions as to whether the episode should even have aired at all. In what The New York Times calls “an astonishing…
A drama series that has become one of the signature shows on TNT will be coming back for a sixth season, after the cable channel announced it’s picking up another season of “Rizzoli & Isles.” The show finished the past…
The latest appearance by actor Joaquin Phoenix on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman” has stirred up a wide range of media reports over whether Phoenix has — as he claims on the show — become engaged to his yoga…
The end is at hand for a cable drama series, which won’t be continuing beyond a short final season. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that Syfy’s time-travel police show “Continuum” has been picked up for a fourth season, but it will…
With FX set to wrap up the seventh and final season of its biker saga “Sons of Anarchy” tonight, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, actor Jimmy Smits took some time to discuss the show’s violent journey and his role as Nero…
Another personality from the ABC competition series “Dancing with the Stars” is headed out the door. Digital Spy reports that Len Goodman, one of the show’s judges, told reporters that the spring season will be his last. Goodman reportedly said…
Television critics have named their top current TV series, and the selection is a surprise, according to HitFix, who conducted the poll. The winner in the third annual Television Critics’ Poll on HitFix was FX’s “Fargo.” The series also…
Is Nielsen’s TV measurement system going to be able to keep up with the rapidly transforming television business? Ad Age, in a tough piece, isn’t so sure. The measurement company has faced challenges before, and the decline in live TV…