MTV Networks has been sued for libel by a singer who competed on "American Idol" during its second season, reports Reuters. Corey Clark is suing for more than $40 million, claiming he was unfairly ridiculed by MTV News correspondent Jim…
Oprah Winfrey has made a strategic move in her effort to revitalize her ratings-challenged OWN cable network, and it’s a move that may resonate with longtime Winfrey fans, Advertising Age reports. The move is rolling out “Oprah Builds a Network,”…
Five cast members from the classic sitcom "Happy Days" have settled their royalties lawsuit with CBS, with each cast member paid about $65,000, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. The settlement was reached just 10 days before a trial…
Syfy has ordered a second season of a series that recently premiered its first season, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. The cable channel picked up the competition series "Total Blackout" for season two, ordering 16 half-hour episodes, the story…
"Everybody expected the ratings for Charlie Sheen’s ‘Anger Management’ to go down in week 2," writes our good friend James Hibberd at EW’s Inside TV. "The question was: By how much?" The answer, Hibberd writes, is a 35% drop in…
Yahoo!, which has been searching for a new chief executive, has been turned down by Hulu Chief Executive Jason Kilar, reports the New York Post. Kilar took himself out of the race, with a Hulu spokeswoman saying, "He has graciously…
On a night when a heavy dose of repeat programming added up to some low ratings, it was a fresh episode of an NBC drama that stood out Thursday night — and not in a good way. NBC’s supernatural medical…
Following a summer test run on six Fox stations, including in New York and Los Angeles, a daytime talk show built around Bravo reality star Bethenny Frankel is on the verge of getting a major pickup, TVNewsCheck.com reports. “Bethenny,” from…
Comcast is selling NBCUniversal’s 15% stake in A&E Television Networks for $2.8 billion, or 40% more than the value Comcast assigned to the stake just two months ago, reports the New York Post. The increase in value appears to be…
U.S. households are paying more than ever on multichannel video service such as cable and satellite television, according to a recent survey, B&C reports. But the survey finds no evidence of widespread "cord cutting." The average monthly bill for pay-TV…