Dish Network and Cablevision settled their legal dispute in a series of talks spread across four nights, with attorneys for the two companies slated to appear in court this morning to present their deal to the court, reports the New…
"The Mindy Project" has received an order from Fox for additional episodes, bringing its first-season order to 24 episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. Fox ordered an additional two episodes after a recently ordered back nine, the story…
CBS rode strong performances by two Thursday night comedies to a comfortable ratings win in the key 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports, citing Nielsen overnights. CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” was the top show of the night, delivering a 4.7 average…
ABC has bought a comedy project based on the book "Dirty Girls: The Naked Truth About Our Guilty Secrets" from the Mark Gordon Co., reports Deadline.com. The sale marks the sixth project of this development season to be sold by…
If Sony wants to sell its movie and TV businesses, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves says CBS might be interested in buying them, reports The Wall Street Journal. [Note: The WSJ is behind a firewall and might charge you to read…
A new study offers encouraging data for TV programmers, indicating that fears of losing viewers to YouTube, Netflix and other new media may be overblown. Citing research from TVGuide.com, Advertising Age reports that consumers’ dedication to television programming remains strong…
NBC has seen enough of one of its new series. Deadline.com reports that the ongoing ratings struggle for the freshman sitcom “Animal Practice” — including a 1.0 average rating last night in the key 18-49 demo — convinced NBC to…
Fox News announced today that it has hired an editor-at-large. The cable news channel’s executive vice president, News Editorial, Michael Clemente, announced that the job will go to Peter J. Boyer. Boyer has been a senior correspondent for Newsweek/Daily Beast….
Click here to read why TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross is stunned that the Discovery Channel has been silent about the seemingly overwhelming evidence that Lance Armstrong cheated to win his Tour de France championships and lied about his cheating to boot.
Newsweek magazine has announced that it will cease publication of its print edition and go all-digital at the end of the year, The New York Times reports. “Tina Brown, founder of the Daily Beast Web site and the driving force…