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A drama series that has already come back to life once is poised for yet another resurrection. Writing on Deadline.com, our friend Nellie Andreeva reports that A&E is putting the finishing touches on a deal to pick up “Unforgettable.” The deal…
A recording artist who was a virtual unknown in the U.S. as recently as a year ago pretty much owned Grammy night, winning three of the night’s four biggest awards and picking up a total of four trophies. The Los…
Lizabeth Scott, who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster and Charlton Heston, carving out a career as a femme fatale in film noir, has died. Reuters reports that she died of congestive heart failure Jan. 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center…
After two stints on the ABC daytime talk staple “The View,” Rosie O’Donnell is out the door, the New York Post’s Page Six reports. The piece also reports that O’Donnell has split from her wife, Michelle Rounds. O’Donnell will reportedly…
The relatives of Bobbi Kristina Brown, 21, plan to take her off life-support at midnight tonight, which will be the anniversary of the death of Brown’s mother, Whitney Houston, reports the New York Post. Writes Stacy Brown on the Post’s…
So says TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross in an insightful essay you can read if you click here.
While at first it seemed as if the big question about Brian Williams was why his first person story changed over the years about his being on a helicopter that had been fired upon in Iraq, it seems to me…
Brian Williams, the embattled anchor of the “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” has taken himself off-the-air. Here’s the announcement Williams made earlier today, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015: “In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it…
By Chuck Ross Let’s first check in with Ken Auletta, the New Yorker’s veteran media columnist and reporter. In a piece posted on the New Yorker website yesterday, Feb 5, 2014, Auletta said he that when he first heard that…
NBC on Thursday announced the renewal of five drama series for the 2015-16 season. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog reports that the network reupped “The Blacklist,” “Grimm,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.” and “Law & Order: SVU.” NBC is…