If Drew Peterson gets his way, the TV movie in which Rob Lowe is playing the accused murderer will cease production immediately, reports Reuters. Peterson’s lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to the people involved in the Lifetime film…
The just-announced deal between Shaquille O’Neal and TNT includes a development deal with Turner’s entertainment and animation networks, Turner revealed in a press release. Besides joining the panel on “Inside the NBA” and seeing duty during the NBA All-Star weekend…
CNBC announced Friday that it has hired a newspaper journalist as the new co-anchor of its “Squawk Box” morning show, Multichannel News reports. The job is going to New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who will co-anchor with Becky…
Lifetime’s widely promoted debut Wednesday night of Roseanne Barr’s new reality show, "Roseanne’s Nuts," didn’t do much to pump up the network’s numbers, reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. A network press release noted that the telecast…
One of the top executives caught up in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal has resigned from the company, The New York Times reports. Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News Corp.’s British newspaper operations, stepped down Friday in what the…
Blockbuster is aiming to take advantage of Netflix’s marketing problems after the online streaming and DVD-rental service angered customers by raising its rates, reports Deadline.com. Blockbuster is appealing to Netflix customers by offering a 30-day free trial to those who…
One of the stars who will be leaving "Glee" after next season says departing the Fox show is "definitely not my choice." "But I completely understand that it works for the integrity of the show,” Chris Colfer told TVLine.com. “One…
Amazon.com plans to release a tablet computer that will intensify its rivalry with Apple, reports The Wall Street Journal. (The Wall Street Journal is behind a pay wall and not all readers may be able to view the full story.)…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made a big splash with his appearances last season on an ABC show, and now the outspoken billionaire is in position to make even more waves on “Shark Tank,” reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Cuban,…
A late-night anthology series has received a second-season order from the pay-cable channel that airs it, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The show is "Femme Fatales," which has been picked up for another season by Cinemax, the story reports. The…