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By Chuck Ross With its recent broadcast of “The Sound of Music” starring Carrie Underwood attracting more than 20 million viewers in two showings on NBC, the network has announced another musical for the December holiday season this year: “Peter…
ABC announced that it’s giving up on a low-rated prime-time series. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network is yanking "Killer Women" from the lineup and moving a new show, "Mind Games," into its time slot. "Mind Games"…
By Jeanine PoggiAdvertising Age The inspiration for Animal Planet’s "Puppy Bowl" came from the Christmas airing of the yule log, and early incarnations were only a bit more elaborate than the classic video of a fireplace. But in the 10…
Animal Planet’s Super Bowl counterprogramming event Puppy Bowl has grown up enough that it now faces counterprogramming of its own on other networks — including Hallmark’s Kitten Bowl and Nat Geo Wild’s Fish Bowl, Advertising Age reports. But the Animal…
The less-than-spectacular premiere week for Fox’s "American Idol" continued Thursday night, with the season’s second installment serving up a time zone-adjusted 3.9 average rating in the key 18-49 demo, based on Nielsen data. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that the number was down…
Fox will take on the gun trade in a new drama series. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the broadcast network ordered "Runner, described as being "to guns what [the film] ‘Traffic’ was to drugs.” The piece quotes the project’s logline:…
President Obama today announced plans to overhaul the nation’s surveillance system in the wake of an outcry over revelations about how the National Security Agency collects phone data on U.S. citizens. "Declaring that advances in technology had made it harder…
An actor who was a familiar presence on television from the 1960s through the 1990s has died. The New York Times reports that Dave Madden, who was a regular on "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In" in the late 1960s and on…
Nickelodeon is shaking things up in its executive suite. The Los Angeles Times reports the departure Thursday of two senior executives, Paula Kaplan and Sal Maniaci. "Kaplan, who has served as executive vice president of current TV series, told her…
Two huge Hollywood stars dropped “f-bombs” within the first half-hour of a live awards broadcast Thursday night. Deadline.com reports that “Gravity” star Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper of “American Hustle” let fly with the famous four-letter word during the CW’s…