A TV news personality best known as an anchor for PBS has joined CNN, Multichannel News reports. Former “Wall Street Week” anchor Maribel Aber moves to CNN Newsource, where she will be a correspondent, the story reports. Aber will report…
It’s a tough year for the best original song category in the Academy Awards. First the Academy found only two songs worthy of nominations, and now the producers of the telecast appear to have decided not to bother including those…
A federal appeals court has struck down California’s Proposition 8, which passed in 2008 and put a ban on gay marriage in the state, the Los Angeles Times reports. However, a stay on same-sex marriages remained in place, meaning the…
An NBC News correspondent is launching a new monthly iPad documentary series, which premieres this week, B&C reports. Starting Feb. 8, NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel will host "Hidden Planet," marking the first time that NBC has launched a…
Even with all the political coverage on television, viewers are turning to TV less for their election news than they have in at least 20 years, Deadline.com reports, citing a study by the Pew Research Center. In a comparable study…
NBC snapped out of its ratings doldrums in time to win the first Monday of February sweeps, as its singing competition “The Voice” combined with the series debut of “Smash” to lift the network to No. 1 in total viewers…
CNN is being pressured by an activist group that is calling for the firing of an analyst in the wake of a controversial tweet, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has…
An alleged blackmailer has been charged in what authorities say is a plot to force the cancellation of a reality show, the Associated Press reports. The TLC Show "19 Kids and Counting" was the focus of the alleged plot. An…
A disastrous appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is having ripple effects for a pop singer, the New York Post’s Page Six reports. Lana Del Rey is postponing her tour in the wake of the much-criticized "Saturday Night Live" performance, the…
An actor who helped create the modern era of Hollywood zombies with his portrayal of one of the creatures in the seminal zombie movie “Night of the Living Dead” has died, E! Online reports. Bill Hinzman, 75, died of cancer…