The top-rated prime-time show on cable in viewers 18 to 49 debuted its seventh season Tuesday night and had one of its highest-rated episodes ever, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The show is Discovery Channel’s "Deadliest Catch."…
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s FX drama pilot "American Horror Story" is getting a script revision after an Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner has been signed to join the cast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jessica Lange will play…
Writer-producer Carol Barbee (“Judging Amy,” “Jericho,” “Hawaii Five-0”) is moving from CBS TV Studios, where she worked for six years, to 20th Century Fox TV, where she will join "Touch," the drama pilot starring Kiefer Sutherland, reports Deadline.com. Barbee will…
Donald Trump’s highly publicized “birther” campaign and flirtation with running for president have apparently helped pump up ratings for his NBC reality show “Celebrity Apprentice,” and now he is taking that idea one step further, CNN reports. Trump has made…
One of YouTube’s most popular video series is set to become an animated television comedy series, reports Deadline.com. The series is "The Annoying Orange." The management and production company The Collective is working with the series creator, Dane Boedigheimer, to…
Kelsey Grammer has started a reality television production company and is receiving interest from several networks for the company’s first project, reports TMZ.com. His first show is focused on three single women living in New York City who started ThatsNotOkayNY.com,…
The Fox Network’s meeting with its affiliates at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas was a hot one, covering some contentious issues and running close to four hours, B&C reported. Reverse compensation fees, considered by stations to…
Two hours of “NCIS” programming pushed CBS to a comfortable overall win in the ratings Tuesday night, even though the network slipped in the standings when it aired “The Good Wife” at 10 p.m., TVbytheNumbers.com reported. For the night, CBS…
CBS News chief Jeff Fager, addressing network affiliates at the NAB Show this week, reportedly addressed strategies for improving ratings for “The Early Show” and “CBS Evening News,” B&C reported. Details on the strategy were not revealed, but Kirk Black,…
In a speech Tuesday at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, NAB Chairman Gordon Smith set his sights on cable operators in a defense of retransmission payments, B&C reported. “Co-opting broadcast terminology, [Smith] called their channels ‘cable…