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Michael Strahan is developing a drama project for ABC. In his first sale of a scripted project, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Strahan, a longtime co-host of Kelly Ripa on her morning show, received a script commitment for “Hobbs,” about…
Just a few days after the ouster of CEO Philippe Dauman was completed, an executive who has been with Viacom for more than 20 years has left the company. Deadline.com reports that Carl Folta, the company’s head of corporate communications,…
Cable companies appear to be migrating toward a new approach in the fight against cord cutting, with the New York Post describing the strategy as being more like Netflix. “US pay TV customers will have more chances this fall to…
While he’s not arguing with the success of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch in building Fox News Channel into a $1.5 billion-a-year profit machine, columnist Jack Shafer, writing on Politico, recaps the channel’s success story and makes the argument that…
With a new bigger, badder battery, the new Tesla electric cars are ridiculously fast — or, in Tesla parlance, ludicrously fast. Recode reports that company chief Elon Musk, talking with journalists on a conference call Tuesday, revealed that the new…
“Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at The New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter,” CNN reports. “The intrusions,…
An actor who was a fixture on the NBC procedural “Law & Order,” who also played the original head of the Impossible Missions Force on “Mission: Impossible,” has died. USA Today reports that Steven Hill died today in New York….
The world’s highest-paid actress of the past year is probably just who you think it is. The Forbes list, which was released today, has Jennifer Lawrence at No. 1 for the second year in a row. Lawrence earned $46 million,…
A changing of the guard has taken place on NBC’s “Today” show, with the on-air announcement Monday that Willie Geist is quitting his regular gig on the show’s third hour. Geist announced on the show that he has too many…
The ax fell this week on a sitcom starring a popular comedian, with news surfacing Monday that “The Jim Gaffigan Show” won’t be back for a third season on TV Land. Gaffigan remains a media presence, including appearances in a…