YouTube is opening the door a little wider for advertisers to buy space to air video on the website, The New York Times reports in its Media Decoder column. The move comes as users are, perhaps reluctantly, learning to accept…
The departure last week of NBC Sports Group Chairman Dick Ebersol was a "not-so-subtle message to other top NBCUniversal executives: Get with the program or hit the road," writes Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Ebersol…
Julianna Margulies, an Emmy winner for “ER” and the star of the critically acclaimed CBS series "The Good Wife," condemned TV executives for scheduling shows starring women against each other, reports The Huffington Post. Citing the perceived ratings battle between…
Donald Trump, a week after he announced at the NBC upfront that he wouldn’t run for president, told "Fox & Friends" that he can’t rule out a late-entry bid, according to FoxNews.com. "I can’t rule out anything," Trump said on…
Mark Burnett, the producer behind "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" is planning to take on what he’s calling the "most important project I have ever undertaken," a 10-hour scripted series based on the Bible, reports Bill Carter in The New York…
The finale of Univision’s reality series "Nuestra Belleza Latina" ("Our Latin Beauty") outperformed English-language shows on CBS and NBC among adults 18 to 34 years old on Sunday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two-hour telecast drew 4.9 million total…
MSNBC has tapped former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele as a political analyst, reports TVNewser.com. Steele has appeared on cable-news networks since he left his job earlier this year, and has been seeking a deal with one of them,…
A Grammy and Emmy Award winner has been cast to play opposite Al Pacino in HBO’s movie about Phil Spector, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bette Midler joins Pacino, who will play the controversial record producer in the project, the…
Ad buyers are less than enthusiastic about the decision by a station in the country’s largest TV market to replace "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which is ending its 25-year run this week, with a longer news broadcast, reports the New…
An offbeat comedy from New York novelist Sam Lipsyte, who is known for novels such as "The Ask" as well as his work in The New Yorker and Harper’s, is being developed by HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The…