Even though some reboots failed this year — "Charlie’s Angels" and "Prime Suspect" come to mind — the networks aren’t ready to give up on the strategy just yet. Many of the hottest projects in development for the 2012-13 season…
New York City Comptroller John Liu wants Time Warner Cable to reimburse its customers for losing New York Knicks and Rangers games, a casualty of the clash between the cable company and programmer Madison Square Garden, reports Bloomberg. The blackout…
Yahoo Inc., which is struggling to turn around its online advertising business, has tapped the president of eBay’s PayPal unit, Scott Thompson, as its next chief executive, The Wall Street Journal reports. The story reports: “The move announced Wednesday came…
After AT&T said it would pay at least $215 million to settle a patent lawsuit over DVRs, TiVo’s shares jumped in after-hours trading, reports Bloomberg. AT&T will pay $51 million up front, with quarterly payments through June 2018 that will…
Monday’s two-hour premiere of “The Bachelor” saw the latest installment of the ABC reality staple get off to a less than promising start for the network, with a 2.4 rating and 6 share in viewers 18-49 and 7.7 million viewers,…
Oprah Winfrey, who was buried in bad news throughout 2011 as her fledgling cable network struggled in the ratings, finally has some good news to celebrate. USA Today reports that the talk show diva’s new OWN series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,”…
Netflix has unveiled a new original series starring a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band who played one of the main characters on HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Steven Van Zandt, who plays guitar for The Boss and played Tony Soprano’s sidekick…
Changes are in store for Fox’s prime-time lineup after the network revealed plans to pull the plug on a show, TVLine.com reports. Fox is canceling the weekly results show for "So You Think You Can Dance," prompting what is expected…
An executive at Fox Sports Media Group, who recently suffered a heart attack, died Friday, TheWrap.com reports. Doug Sellars, executive VP of production and executive producer for the group, was 50. Sellars joined Fox Sports in 2000 and helped form…
While NBC said it sold the last of its Super Bowl ad inventory around Thanksgiving, the network may end up with some additional spots to sell, Brian Steinberg reports in Advertising Age. That’s because two advertisers, whom NBC declined to…