The creative force behind AMC’s award-winning drama "Breaking Bad" has signed a new overall deal with Sony Pictures TV, reports Deadline.com. Vince Gilligan’s contract is for 18 months, retroactive to November 2011. He has been working without a contract since…
Oprah Winfrey is focusing on turning around her new cable network OWN, but another Winfrey-branded project might need some attention. O, the Oprah Magazine, has seen a 32% plunge in newsstand sales, reports the New York Post. Sales fell to…
Television remains the country’s No. 1 pastime, with Americans averaging 4 hours, 39 minutes of TV consumption daily, reports Brian Stelter in The New York Times. But Americans 12 to 34 years old are spending less time watching television in…
A supernatural drama series has been renewed for a third season, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The show is "Being Human," which was renewed by Syfy. The decision comes three weeks after the show debuted its…
Shows from Viacom’s cable networks, including MTV’s "Jersey Shore" and Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer," will be available on Amazon.com’s Prime membership service, reports Bloomberg. Amazon’s Prime membership costs $79 per year and offers free two-day shipping as well a a…
Oscar-winning director and Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, who began his long career as an actor on the TV Western "Rawhide," is returning to television as one of the prime movers behind a new channel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According…
Sunday’s record-breaking Super Bowl broadcast featured a great game, terrific ads and a wide range of technological innovations, but what it may be best remembered for was a low-tech gesture during the halftime show. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin…
A new ABC series bowed to disappointing ratings Tuesday night as CBS parlayed a milestone episode of “NCIS” into a big win for the night in total viewers, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. CBS averaged 16.2 million viewers for prime time, more than…
NBC is considering debuting a new cycle of "The Voice" in fall 2012 instead of waiting until 2013 to return for another midseason run, reports TheWrap.com. The network has signed judge Christina Aguilera for the next cycle, which, if it…
Daytime host Ellen DeGeneres used her talk show Tuesday to respond to a protest of her endorsement deal with JC Penney, The Washington Post reported. DeGeneres fired back at the group One Million Moms, which is trying to pressure JC…