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Tim Tebow, the Heisman Trophy-winning star college quarterback who has struggled to be accepted as a professional NFL quarterback, has been cut by the Philadelphia Eagles. The latest cut came as a surprise to many. Writes columnist Matt Fitzgerald in…
She was “a bouncy, auburn-haired British actress who won overnight fame in the 1960s as the Sock It To Me girl on the hit television show ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In’; she returned, albeit briefly, to the limelight in 1985 when…
A challenger that could prove to be formidable is throwing its hat into the late-night ring. Variety reports that ESPN is ready to roll out a midnight edition of “SportsCenter” as Labor Day winds down Monday night. At the center…
A television station on the East Coast is focusing its resources this week on a story that goes back 450 years. TVNewsCheck reports that WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla., is pulling out all the stops to cover the anniversary of America’s…
News Corp. may have opened a can of worms with the reinstatement this week of one of the key players in the company’s phone hacking scandal. Politico reports News Corp.’s former U.K. security chief, Mark Hanna, responded to the company’s…
Hours before a scheduled screening at the Telluride Film Festival, soul singer Aretha Franklin filed for an emergency injunction against the festival to stop the screening of “Amazing Grace,” the Detroit Free Press reports. The movie was set to screen…
A U.S. president will be at the heart of a new project in the works at Showtime. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the pay-cable net has a limited series in development focusing on Teddy Roosevelt. The project is…
The new ranking of television’s designated market areas is out, and the top 10 has seen two markets swap places while a number of other changes also occurred in the top 20. TVNewsCheck reports that the new ranking from Nielsen…
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel held out an olive branch after being the target of a “firestorm of insults and death threats” for the past week, Entertainment Weekly reports. Kimmel invoked the wrath of gamers when he commented on “Jimmy…
It’s the beginning of the annual Labor Day weekend, and according to TV Tango there are 393 marathons this weekend. Says TV Tango, “No Labor Day Weekend is complete without a ‘Dirty Jobs’ marathon — this year you can watch…