As the U.K. phone-hacking scandal widens in the wake of the closure of tabloid paper News of the World, a group of News Corp. shareholders has filed a lawsuit against the company, USA Today reports. “The lawsuit accuses News Corp….
Just weeks after announcing his retirement from the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal reportedly has a high-profile job lined up in television, according to The Huffington Post. The TNT "Inside the NBA" team of Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson will…
TV host Chris Hansen, best known for NBC’s "To Catch a Predator" series but more recently in the news for being caught on video himself in an extramarital affair, has reportedly lost a promotion from the network, according to the…
The face of Turner Classic Movies, film historian and host Robert Osborne, is taking a three-month break from his duties on TCM to recover from minor surgery and to get in a holiday, reports TCM.com. While Osborne is off the…
An iconic character in the world of soap operas will be making a return, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The character, who debuted in 1976, is Dr. Marlena Evans, played by Deidre Hall. Hall is slated to revive Evans on…
Theater owners’ concerns over in-home premium video-on-demand appear to have been overblown, as so far consumer response to the service has been lukewarm, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Four studios — 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal…
The so-called “spoiler” — the revelation of a plot twist or how the story ends to those who haven’t yet seen a particular television show or movie, or had a chance to read a recent book — is no longer…
On a night when the competition served up mostly repeat programming, ABC’s heavily promoted interview with kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard helped the Alphabet Network claim an easy win in the Sunday night ratings, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. A special two-hour ABC "Primetime,"…
Gillian Anderson, best known for her tenure as Agent Sculley on Fox’s "The X-Files," will be taking on a new TV role that should be nothing like her ‘X-Files’ character, reports Reuters. Anderson will play Miss Haversham in the latest…
One of the stars of "3rd Rock from the Sun" apparently got into a spat with Nadya Suleman, known as Octomom for her brood of octuplets, as they were waiting in business class for their plane to depart on a…