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Buried under the headlines in an interview that gave Donald Trump some material for his tweets, veteran film director David Lynch offered an interesting observation about working in television vs. working in feature films. Lynch’s interview with the U.K. publication…
The reality TV personality known on History’s long-running pawn shop series “Pawn Stars” as the “Old Man” has died. News of the death of Richard Benjamin Harrison was posted today on the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop’s Facebook page. Harrison…
Repercussions continue to play out between Donald Trump and NBC “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon going back to when Trump appeared on Fallon’s show in September 2016 — the famous “hair-mussing” incident in the heat of the presidential election. Fallon…
A high-profile murder case that was at the center of the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” has been declined by the U.S. Supreme Court, Variety reports. The court did not give a reason for its decision not to revisit the…
Some readers may be surprised that Roger Ailes will be played by the well-known actor Russell Crowe in an upcoming Showtime series. Crowe is a three-time Academy Award nominee and won the Best Actor Oscar in 2001 for “Gladiator.” The…
MTV is joining forces with Universal 1440 Entertainment to create a sequel to the “stoner classic” feature film “How High,” Nellie Andreeva reports in an exclusive on Deadline. “In the update, written by Artie Johann and Shawn Ries (‘Family Guy’),…
“At a time when the ad industry is embracing ever shorter forms of advertising for both TV and digital media, consumers say they actually prefer longer-form ad messages,” MediaPost reports. “A survey of U.S. adults conducted [last week] by Research…
In a column examining the television industry’s relatively sudden fascination with the six-second commercial, writer Steve Sternberg points out in MediaPost’s TelevisionNewsDaily that TV networks appear to be drawn to the idea not for the purpose of improving the viewer…
Warner Bros. Television Group is gearing up for a big presence at the upcoming Comic-Con International: San Diego, set for July 19-22 with a preview night July 18. The group is bringing a set of program it calls “Comic-Con essentials,”…
A cash-and-stock deal valued at $3.65 billion, creating the third-largest TV station group in the country, has been announced between Gray Television and Raycom Media, reports Reuters. Gray will be the buyer. Reuters reports: “The deal comes at a time…