Advertising sales at NBC News are trending $100 million below budget, hurt by a ratings decline at "Today" in the key 25-to-54 demographic, reports the New York Post. Because ABC’s "Good Morning America" is now regularly beating "Today," it may…
This upfront season marked successes for several producers and writers who landed multiple orders for new series, including "Cougar Town" co-creator Bill Lawrence, who unveiled three new series at the upfront presentations last week, reports Deadline.com. Lawrence’s new shows are…
The BBC confirmed it’s ordering the eighth season of "Doctor Who," with Steven Moffat returning as the lead writer and executive producer. The broadcaster is also working on a 50th anniversary special that will air Nov. 23, and will feature…
DirecTV is contemplating a bid for the online streaming service Hulu, reports The Wall Street Journal. Hulu’s owners, which include Walt Disney, News Corp. and Comcast, are considering their options for Hulu, including a sale. Interested bidders are reportedly said…
Fox’s ‘The X Factor" is talking to two singers who have sold close to 100 million albums between them to replace Britney Spears and L.A. Reid, two judges on the show this past season who will not be coming back this fall….
A singer-songwrtier who had two No. 1 hits has passed away at age 72, the Los Angeles Times reports. One of the hits was a song sung by Helen Reddy. The other he sang himself. Says the Times, “Alan O’Day,…
A ticket that has the winning numbers in Saturday night’s $590.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot was sold in a supermarket in a town of about 12,000 people. The town is "Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News…
Tonight’s Powerball lottery jackpot came in shy of the $600 million that Powerball officials were estimating. As announced right before the drawing, the final tally of the jackpot was $590.5 million. The winning numbers were 10,13,14,22 and 52. The Powerball…
A golfer who had a legendary career both on the links and as a golf analyst and commentator on CBS for 35 years, has died. Ken Venturi, 82, "had been hospitalized for nearly two months for pneumonia and infections in…
It was a tale of two shows headed in opposite directions for a pair of finales on the broadcast networks Thursday night, but the series that surged in the ratings is now off the air while the series that plunged…