Amazon’s Kindle Fire — the company’s first tablet computer — is set to debut today, and the company has been aggressively signing up partners for programming content to make it competitive with other portable devices, reports Deadline.com. Recent deals have…
A new online network that has been in the works for months — known mainly as the place where a couple of canceled ABC soap operas are headed — now has a name, Deadline.com reports. The name: The Online Network….
Lifetime announced that is has ordered another season of a reality series that has been attracting attention for both its controversial content and its solid ratings, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network gave a 13-episode order for a second…
Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Rob Schneider has received a midseason order from CBS for his family comedy, reports TVGuide.com. Schneider stars in the project as a bachelor who marries into a large Mexican-American family, the story says. The…
Fox’s eagerly anticipated premiere of its prehistoric adventure series “Terra Nova” went head-to-head against week two of CBS’s post-Charlie Sheen “Two and a Half Men” in a key ratings battle Monday night, and it was no contest, with CBS notching…
The lawsuit between Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros. TV over "Two and a Half Men" ended Monday when the two sides agreed to settle, with Sheen receiving $25 million, reports TheWrap.com. The two sides were thought to be close to…
The loss of Keith Olbermann is having an impact on MSNBC, with the cable news network at risk of once again becoming the third-rated network in prime-time cable news, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times. CNN, which has…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been outspoken in the past about his disapproval of MTV’s hit show "Jersey Shore," on Monday vetoed $420,000 in tax credits that the state’s Economic Development Authority had awarded to the program, reports…
NBC is taking a page from Fox’s playbook with the rollout of two of the network’s new comedies, reports Deadline.com. Fox gave a boost to its new comedy “New Girl” by streaming it online before it aired on the network,…
With “Sunday Night Football” claiming its usual No. 1 ratings position on Sunday night, NBC took an easy win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reports — and football made for a tough rollout for the night’s only new show, ABC’s “Pan…