NBC has announced a pair of key personnel moves as it assembles the team for the upcoming prime-time newsmagazine being built around Brian Williams. Rome Hartman, a veteran BBC America executive producer, is leaving that network to join NBC as…
Roseanne Barr is embroiled in a fight with sitcom writer Ken Levine, who has worked on shows such as "Cheers" and "Frasier," sparked by an article Barr wrote claiming that male television writers are sexist, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent out a plea Tuesday to the principals behind a critically lauded crime drama series that went off the air in 2008. Holder addressed his comments to David Simon and Ed Burns, creators of HBO’s…
Oscar winner Halle Berry has her sights set on television, as a drama series spec with the star attached is being considered by pay-cable networks including HBO and Showtime, reports Deadline.com. The project is from DreamWorks TV and would showcase…
"Apple, the reigning heavyweight of the music business, may have solved [the]…conundrum [of moving music to the cyber cloud]," Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports, adding that Apple "has reached agreements with three of the four major music labels and is close to…
In his first regular series role since “Law & Order,” one of the mainstays of that series is slated to join Aaron Sorkin’s HBO pilot "More as the Story Develops," reports Deadline.com. Sam Waterston will play the president of the…
After opening to the biggest three-day weekend comedy box office ever, "The Hangover Part II" has already been snapped up for television, reports Deadline.com. FX won the TV rights to the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures film over Turner, which is a…
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will make his second public appearance this year on June 6, when he unveils a cloud computing service at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, reports Bloomberg. Jobs, who is battling cancer, is in the middle of…
A trust created by Blockbuster has been sued by NCR Corp., which wants to continue using the film- and TV-rental company’s name for DVD-rental kiosks, reports Bloomberg. The suit comes after Dish bought Blockbuster and rejected the NCR contract to…
The broadcasting unit of Tribune Co. has a new chief executive, effective immediately, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The bankrupt media company tapped Nils Larsen to lead the division, the story reports. Larsen has served as Tribune Broadcasting’s chairman since…