A former tennis champion is being wooed by ESPN to call the Wimbledon finals when the cable network airs the event next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John McEnroe, known for his fiery on-court behavior during his playing days,…
The stunning news of the verdict in the widely covered Casey Anthony murder trial had some networks breaking into their regular programming today, according to The Hollywood Reporter, while cable news networks went into a frenzy analyzing the unexpected acquittal…
Two of the Big 3 broadcast networks featured special programming Monday night in honor of the Fourth of July holiday, and when the smoke cleared it was NBC that came away with a pretty big win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com…
Imagine Television’s Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have enlisted the executive producers of CBS’s "The Amazing Race" to help create TNT’s new reality competition show "The Great Escape," reports TV Guide. The pilot will have contestants placed in the middle…
Charlie Sheen is talking about a new sitcom, but his next comedy foray will be as the guest of honor on "The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen," reports Deadline.com. Comedy Central will air the special on Monday, Sept. 19,…
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and CBS Television have tentatively agreed to a new deal that, if approved, would be in place until January 2015, Deadline.com reported. In a statement, CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves said of the…
Comcast is pulling the plug on a three-year-old original Web content unit of NBCUniversal, reports Andrew Hampp in Advertising Age. NBC Universal Digital Studio has been shuttered, the story reports. The Digital Studio aimed to create branded entertainment such as…
NBC is overhauling a high-profile comedy project, and has let go three cast members–almost half the cast–reports TVLine.com. The show is the upcoming "Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea," based on Chelsea Handler’s best-selling comic memoir. The show has…
NBC announced that it was “simply outbid” for the rights to an event that the network has carried for 43 years, the Associated Press reports. ESPN is nearing a deal with Wimbledon that would bring an end to NBC’s association…
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett jumped in to apologize to viewers on Monday morning after the network aired a Casey Anthony trial prosecution rebuttal that included a jailhouse recording that used the "F" word five times, reports TVNewser.com. The recording….