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HBO’s stand-alone streaming service HBO Now launched this morning on Apple products, prompting the Los Angeles Times to lead its report with: “The long-anticipated unbundling of cable TV packages has begun.” The HBO service also launched on Cablevision’s Optimum Online…
“The baton is being passed at Bunim-Murray Prods., the company that helped birth the modern reality TV business with the creation of MTV’s ‘The Real World,’” Variety reports. The report says co-founder and Chairman Jonathan Murray is stepping down from…
New episodes of the cult favorite comedy series “Arrested Development” are on the way. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that executive producer Brian Grazer said during a podcast today, “We’re going to do another 17 episodes.” The report notes…
A veteran actor known for his role on the popular CBS series “The Dukes of Hazzard” has died. TMZ.com reports that James Best, who played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, died Monday night in a hospice facility. He was 88. Best…
A new examination of the situation inside NBC News reveals that one source of frustration for network executives was “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams’ “inability to explain himself” after his account of his 2003 coverage of the Iraq war was…
By Mike Reynolds CMT, while keeping to its country core, is diversifying its programming slate with new genre entries, a key off-network acquisition and walking its boots into a new daypart, late-night. The Viacom-owned network — now part of the…
The star of the supernatural drama series “The Vampire Diaries,” a staple on the CW since 2009, is off the show. Nina Dobrev, who stars as Elena Gilbert on the series, announced her departure Monday in an Instagram message to…
Actor John Travolta offered his thoughts on the new HBO documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” telling the Tampa Bay Times that he hasn’t seen the movie, “and I don’t really care to.” The movie alleges improprieties…
Ratings for broadcast networks are down again this year, with two of the big 4 networks accounting for the falloff, Media Life Magazine reports. In the key demo of viewers 18-49, Fox and NBC are both off significantly from a…
Fox’s freshman drama series “Empire” continues to set the kind of ratings marks that haven’t been seen on broadcast in years. Citing Nielsen Live+7 figures that include time-shifted viewing, Fox announced that the season finale, which aired March 18, delivered…