A botched agreement for an infomercial has wound up in court, with a marketing firm filing a $25 million lawsuit against a well-known action star, TheWrap.com reports. The action star is Jean-Claude Van Damme, who has been sued by Total…
On a night of season finales for many shows–including NBC’s “Chuck” and CBS’s “Hawaii Five-0,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Mad Love” and “Mike & Molly”–the biggest ratings splash by far was made by “Dancing With the Stars,” which pushed…
A baseball Hall of Famer who hit more than 500 home runs in the pre-steroid era died today, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. Former Minnesota Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew was 74. Killebrew had been battling esophageal cancer, and entered hospice…
ABC has announced that it plans on introducing 13 shows into primetime over the course of the 2011-2012 season. New comedies include “Apartment 23,” “Last Man Standing,” “Man Up,” “Suburgatory” and “Work It.” New dramas are “Charlie’s Angels,” “Good Christian Belles,”…
CBS is adding a new drama to the lineup, following announcements Monday that it was picking up two dramas and a comedy for fall 2011, Broadcasting & Cable reported. The drama “A Gifted Man” will also be on the schedule….
The secrecy surrounding a 770-page oral history of ESPN is serving to heighten interest in the book’s content, with some wondering how many salacious details are included in the publication, reports The New York Times. And no wonder the folks…
One of the notorious villains from the long run of CBS’s showcase reality competition franchise “Survivor” has been given his own show, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Russell Hantz will resurface on A&E, which has greenlighted a house-flipping show…
ESPN rolled out a significant lineup of new programming at its Tuesday upfront presentation, including new ESPN programs “Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable” and “Numbers Don’t Lie.” “Batard” is a 30-minute weekday afternoon show (4 p.m. ET) featuring the…
NBC and its affiliate stations have the framework in place for an unusual–and potentially groundbreaking–arrangement in which the network would take the lead on behalf of affiliates in retransmission consent negotiations with cable and satellite providers, Broadcasting & Cable reports….
Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen has turned over chief executive duties and day-to-day operation of the company to Joseph Clayton, 61, reports Bloomberg. Ergen will focus on Dish’s strategy, the story notes. Ergen and Clayton, who served as chairman of…