“Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig say they are scrapping plans for their secret Lifetime movie after news of the project leaked online Wednesday night,” report our good friends James Hibberd and Lynette Rice on the website of Entertainment Weekly. The…
ABC appears poised to bring the beloved Muppets back to television. The network “will soon shoot a pilot presentation under the working title ‘Muppets 2015,’” Variety reports. The report notes that the logline for the show includes this: “The Muppets…
A model on the game show staple “The Price Is Right” made an embarrassing — and expensive — mistake on Thursday’s show. Manuela Arbelaez flubbed her duties while assisting host Drew Carey as a contestant tried to win a car…
A new TV documentary premiering this weekend aims to clear up some of the many myths surrounding Frank Sinatra, one of the biggest figures in the history of American popular culture. To preview the event, TVWeek Open Mic writer Hillary…
Showtime and HBO have set the price for their upcoming pay-per-view coverage of the hotly anticipated Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao bout. Deadline.com reports that the event, which many observers are calling the fight of the century, will have the highest-ever…
The NBC late-night sketch staple “Saturday Night Live” is about to become a presence in movie theaters, with a June 12 theatrical release date set for “Live From New York!,” Variety reports. The documentary, directed by Bao Nguyen, chronicles the…
The E.W. Scripps Company, one of the largest independent owners of television stations, has made a number of changes among its high-level executives. The company, which owns 33 television stations in 24 markets reaching almost one in five U.S. households,…
This could be considered a story about TV programming, if readers were to imagine a time before the invention of television — when celestial events were the closest thing available to mass entertainment programming. Astronomers have given us notice that…
In a piece of not-very-surprising news, Netflix has announced that it will bring back its acclaimed and wildly popular drama series “House of Cards” for a fourth season. The streaming service took to Twitter to break the news, noting that…
Cable network Spike TV has been proudly courting male viewers throughout its 12-year history, but veteran TV writer David Bauder reports for AP that Spike is “throwing open the door of its boys’ clubhouse to women.” The occasion is this…