The success of USA Network’s spy series "Burn Notice" has led to the show’s creator, Matt Nix, inking a two-year, seven-figure deal with Fox TV Studios, reports Deadline.com. As part of the deal, Nix will continue overseeing the fifth and…
All of the broadcast networks struggled in the ratings Sunday night, with ABC eking out a narrow win in the 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC wound up with a 2.0 average rating in adults 18-49, just ahead of Fox (1.9…
Classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters, led by Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, will be back on television with the Cartoon Network launch of a new "The Looney Tunes Show" May 3, reports Multichannel News. Included in the cavalcade of Warner’s…
While it denies the report, one major network is said to be cutting some of its pretaped segments on Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding and will send news producers, editors and on-air talent to London later than previously scheduled…
With bids for Olympic television rights due next month, NBC Universal’s Olympics chief Dick Ebersol is trying to convince his new bosses at Comcast to pony up for rights to air the 2014 and 2016 Olympic games, reports the New…
CBS has awarded Chief Executive Leslie Moonves one of the richest pay packages in corporate America, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. His package for 2010 totaled $57.7 million, according to the story. Moonves, 61, was paid $3.5…
Cable advertising will rise 10.8% this year, making it one of the fastest-growing media segments and far outpacing broadcast television’s expected 2.4% ad growth, reports B&C, citing a report from media agency Magna Global. "Increasingly, large advertisers with reach and…
The casting department at Fox is getting a reorganization, after two high-level executives said Friday they plan to step down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Marcia Shulman, who has been at Fox for 11 years, is leaving her post as…
Robert MacNeil–the “MacNeil” in PBS’s long-running “MacNeil/Lehrer Report”–will return to “PBS NewsHour” for the first time since he retired in 1995 as a co-anchor of the show, reports TVNewser.com. MacNeil will report on the six-part "Autism Now," a comprehensive look…
BET has renewed one comedy series and is expected to renew another one that has been paired with it, Deadline.com reported. The cable channel renewed “The Game” and expected to renew freshman comedy "Let’s Stay Together," according to the story….