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A television producer, writer and director who worked on shows including "NYPD Blue" and "Kojak" has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rift Fournier was 77. Fournier was restricted to a wheelchair after he was stricken with polio in his…
MTV is raising its bet on a scripted series, bringing the show back for another season and adding a complementary talk show. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that the channel is ordering a fourth season of "Teen Wolf"…
An actor who made an impact in AMC’s acclaimed drama series "Breaking Bad" has joined a high-profile project that’s in the works at FX. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that "Fargo," an FX limited series inspired by the 1996…
Yet anther high-profile "Wizard of Oz" TV project is in the works, bringing the total at this point to five. Deadline.com reports that the latest addition to the list is a Lifetime project. Lifetime is working on "Red Brick Road,"…
PBS’s "Masterpiece" will air a miniseries based on a prize-winning novel and its sequel. The New York Times’ Arts Beat reports that "Wolf Hall," the Booker Prize winner about Thomas Cromwell, and its sequel "Bring Up the Bodies" will get…
Netflix is talking with U.S. cable-television operators to add its application to their set-top boxes, Bloomberg reports. That would allow customers to search for Netflix’s streaming shows and movies along with their searches for traditional TV programming, the story says….
CBS is following up on a stunt last season in which viewers picked how an episode of one of its prime-time dramas would end. Deadline.com reports that this time around the network is asking fans to take control of a…
Madonna has been banned from a movie theater chain for texting during a movie — even though her texting was NOT in a theater owned by the movie chain. Here’s the story, as written by James Hibberd, our former TVWeek…
"Oscar Hijuelos, 62, a Cuban-American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" and whose work often captured the loss and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience, has died," reports the…
The headline on Deadline.com reads "SHOCKER! Charlie Hunnam Exits Christian Grey Role in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ " Writes our friend Mike Fleming Jr. in that story, "Well, here’s a surprise. Universal is going to have to look harder to…