Tuesday night’s two-hour season premiere of an NBC series was down substantially from last year’s premiere, but the Peacock Network managed to win the night in the Nielsen overnights anyway, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC’s “Love in the Wild” opened to a…
The show that is the most-watched cable series of 2012 among children between 2 and 5 has received a renewal, B&C reports. Disney Junior announced that it will bring back “Doc McStuffins” for a second season. The animated series focuses…
Likenesses of Elvis Presley are in the works for appearances in a variety of projects including TV and film appearances, Deadline.com reports. The initiative involves the same outfit that created a virtual Tupac Shakur for a “live appearance” at the…
"Happy Days" actors received happy news on Tuesday when a judge denied CBS’s summary judgment motion in a lawsuit over merchandising, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. The ruling means the dispute between the actors and the show’s distributor…
Fox rode strong premieres for its two Monday night food shows to a ratings win for prime time Monday night, according to Nielsen overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. “MasterChef” bowed with a 2.3 average rating in the key 18-49 demo, up five-tenths…
NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution has named a former top development exec from Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions to develop original first-run programming for the syndication company. Valerie Schaer takes the position of executive VP, creative affairs, it was announced today by…
Tribune, the troubled media company that has been in Chapter 11 for more than three years, is considering Jeff Zucker as one of its top candidates to fill the company’s CEO slot, reports our good friend Claire Atkinson at the New York…
Dish Network has banished AMC to channel 9609, the realm of informercials and low-quality programming, in retaliation for the "Mad Men" cable network airing negative ads about Dish, according to The Hollywood Reporter. AMC aired commercials during Sunday’s episode of…
"Sean Parker, first president of Facebook, is starting a video chat site because he thinks that social media is making people lonelier," the Financial Times reports. The new site is called Airtime. Says that report, "Mr. Parker says Airtime will…
A&E set a network record with the debut of its new Western-style drama series, The New York Times’ Media Decoder reports. Sunday’s premiere of "Longmire" attracted 4.1 million viewers, more than any new drama series on cable TV this season,…