USA Network has ordered 11 episodes of a new cop show, which will begin production in August in New Orleans, reports Deadline.com. The show, "Common Law," is a buddy comedy starring Michael Ealy and Warren Kole as cops on the…
Netflix’s shares touched an all-time high of $291.23 during trading Tuesday before closing up more than 8% for the day at $289.63, reports the New York Post. The surge came after the company announced plans for an aggressive expansion into…
Michael Keaton is on board to executive produce a project that’s in development at HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is based on Carl Hiassen’s novel "Skinny Dip" and will also be executive produced by Michael Oates Palmer…
Twitter, the service that lets people send out messages in 140 characters or less, is raising funding that pegs its value in the billions of dollars, reports Bloomberg. The company is in discussions to raise hundreds of millions of dollars…
Hulu Chief Executive Jason Kilar has been working without a contract since the end of June as the company seeks a buyer, reports Sharon Waxman at TheWrap.com. "This leaves Hulu in an odd situation — on the auction block, with…
Just as with television, mobile phones also have a prime time, and it has a lot in common with TV viewing patterns, reports Kunur Patel in Advertising Age. Mobile users tend to surf the Web and apps from their phones…
A former tennis champion is being wooed by ESPN to call the Wimbledon finals when the cable network airs the event next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John McEnroe, known for his fiery on-court behavior during his playing days,…
"Led by Nancy Grace, the entire cable landscape — and now the broadcast news networks — seem to have gotten drunk on the Casey Anthony trial," writes Lucas Shaw at TheWrap. The article says, "Grace’s single-minded pursuit of the ‘truth’…
Social-media sites Twitter and Facebook revolutionized the 36-day Casey Anthony trial by casting a far-reaching net of news across the globe, bringing minute-to-minute updates directly into people’s smartphones, tablets and work and home computers, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Orlando was…
The stunning news of the verdict in the widely covered Casey Anthony murder trial had some networks breaking into their regular programming today, according to The Hollywood Reporter, while cable news networks went into a frenzy analyzing the unexpected acquittal…