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A CBS drama project that failed to receive a pickup from the network last month isn’t dead yet. Variety reports that CBS TV Studios will reshoot the pilot for the legal drama “Doubt.” “CBS was moving last week to lock…
An actor from the “Star Wars” feature film franchise was arrested following a high-speed chase. The Washington Post reports that Jake Lloyd was arrested Wednesday in South Carolina. Lloyd played a young Anakin Skywalker as a child actor in the…
A show airing on broadcast scored TV’s highest-rated summer series premiere in two years in the key demo of viewers 18-49. ABC announced that “Celebrity Family Feud” bowed Sunday with 8.5 million total viewers and a 2.4 average rating in…
NBC News is embracing the new era for its flagship broadcast following the official ouster of Brian Williams. The network has taken the wraps off a new promotional video touting Williams’ replacement, Lester Holt. The clip unveils the newly retitled…
Four new shows on the fall broadcast schedule have been singled out for their “terrible concepts” and designated as the season’s “four least promising shows.” Writing in Media Life, Toni Fitzgerald targets ABC’s “Dr. Ken,” CBS’s “Limitless” and two NBC…
By Chuck Ross Like many others, I was surprised that Brian Williams, after being suspended for four months, could not bring himself to say — during his interview with Matt Lauer of the “Today” show that was broadcast last Friday,…
Actor Charlie Sheen marked Father’s Day on Sunday by reverting to his old ways, calling ex-wife Denise Richards — with whom Sheen has two daughters — “a heretic washed up piglet Shame pile.” Time magazine reports that the actor sent…
“Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, an unprofitable lifestyle business founded by the do-it-yourself maven, is being sold for a near-clearance price,” reports Time magazine. The story adds, “Once valued at nearly $2 billion when it went public at the height of the dot-com…
A new report says Comedy Central is in the midst of both a business-model crisis and a creative renaissance. The report in The New York Times Magazine focuses on the upcoming handoff of the cable channel’s late-night staple “The Daily…
“Entertainment public relations and corporate communications veteran Barbara S. Brogliatti died at her home in Napa Valley, CA, on Sunday morning (June 21, 2015), following a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer,” Warner Bros. has announced. She was 69 years old. According to the Warner…