A new advertising campaign from a New York City television station offers a grim assessment of the state of TV, and aims to cash in on it. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that new ads for Thirteen, a local PBS station,…
An executive who helped make Snooki a pop culture icon while he was at MTV has been named president of TruTV. The Los Angeles Times reports that Chris Linn, who previously was an executive vice president of MTV, got the…
ABC Family has renewed a comedy series. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the cable channel will bring back "Melissa & Joey" for a fourth season. The channel also gave a back order to the show for an additional…
Satellite company Dish Network has rolled out a new social media app for the Hopper DVR. Deadline.com reports that the company says the app, Social, is the industry’s “first and only set-top app that delivers on-screen social content relevant to…
Media buyers have offered an assessment of what to expect from this upfront season. MediaLife reports that the buyers are saying this will be a "ho-hum" season, without strong results for the broadcast networks. "Media people foresee very small gains…
The A&E dramas "Longmire" and "The Glades" returned over the Memorial Day holiday and brought bigger audiences than their previous season premieres, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. "Longmire" drew 4.3 million viewers to its second-season premiere, or 200,000 more…
"Community" creator Dan Harmon, who was ousted from the show last year, might return for the series’ final 13-episode season, reports Deadline.com. As previously reported, Harmon is in talks to return to the NBC comedy series after being fired by…
The third-season finale of "Mike & Molly," which was pulled from the CBS schedule last week because its tornado-linked storyline was too close to reality following the deadly Oklahoma twister, will air Thursday, May 30, reports TVLine. The episode features…
HBO hit a viewership home run over the weekend with the debut of an original production. Deadline.com reports that the turnout for “Behind the Candelabra” — the Steven Soderbergh-directed Liberace biopic — set a nine-year mark for the pay-cable channel….
It continues to be a rough period for premieres on the broadcast networks, with the latest series to suffer its lowest season premiere of all time being ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com…