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NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” will return with a new episode Jan. 10 with host Neil Patrick Harris and musical guest Taylor Swift. Live broadcasts also will air on Jan. 17 and Jan. 31. “SNL” is coming back with new episodes…
As it continues to expand its movie rental service to new devices, Netflix inked a deal with LG Electronics to stream Netflix videos on LG’s high-definition television sets, the companies announced today. Under the deal, consumers will be able to…
The ad budgets of auto makers will be even tighter in 2009, with both foreign and domestic auto companies watching their spending, Advertising Age reports. General Motors will cut $600 million from U.S. advertising and promotions in the next four…
Sony Pictures Television will announce at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it’s making the syndicated comedy “Seinfeld” available in high definition to broadcast stations for the first time, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Sony is promoting it with…
Reality show producer Kathy Wetherell, 48, died in an automobile accident in Arizona on Dec. 20, Daily Variety says. A memorial service will be held today at 10:30 a.m. at the Hall of Liberty, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills. Wetherell worked…
In a new challenge to the digital TV transition, the government’s program offering $40 coupons for TV converter boxes is out of money, weeks sooner than anyone expected. The Department of Commerce today announced that it has committed the entire…
Ratings for the broadcast of Thursday’s Rose Bowl between Southern California and Penn State rose 5% from a year earlier, scoring an 11.7 fast national rating, the Hollywood Reporter says. Still, the ratings were far from the 2006 Rose Bowl,…
Actors Marla Sokoloff, Marion Ross and Christina Pickles have been cast in a Hallmark Channel original movie called “Flower Girl,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Sokoloff plays a woman who runs a flower shop with her grandmother (Ross), while Pickles plays…
Saturday’s wild-card playoff game between the San Diego Chargers and Indianapolis Colts received the highest prime-time ratings for a wild-card game, as well as the best prime-time Saturday ratings for a wild-card game since 1999, the Hollywood Reporter says. The…
The tough Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook is the newest location for MTV’s reality series “The Real World,” the New York Post says. The 21st installment of the program is changing its format slightly to include eight strangers, instead of…