NBC is buying "Fashion Star," a new prime-time reality show from Electus, the production company of Ben Silverman, who used to be NBC’s top programmer, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The story notes that…
The wayward Bronx Zoo Egyptian cobra, despite having been found by zoo officials and returned to its cage, remains an Internet sensation, with a Facebook presence, a series of humorous tweets and a campaign to have the snake host NBC’s…
Donald Trump, the host of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” who has been widely reported to be contemplating a presidential bid in 2012, has landed a pulpit on cable news, according to The Huffington Post. Fox News announced Thursday that the weekday…
Katie Holmes appears to be taking the incident in stride, but the wife of Tom Cruise and mom of almost 4-year-old Suri Cruise has had some explaining to do after photos surfaced on the Internet showing Suri with a box…
Fox scored a big ratings win Thursday night, thanks to a strong performance by “American Idol,” which was up 5% from a week earlier in the key 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox averaged a 5.2 rating for the night in…
Amy Entelis, senior vice president of talent strategy, development and research for ABC News, is leaving the network to take another position, reports TVNewser.com. Entelis will be executive vice president of talent strategy for Sucherman Consulting Group. ABC News President…
The actress who has been named in polls as the most popular star on CBS’s “NCIS” is branching out, the AP reports. Her new project is a musical collaboration with B. Taylor. The actress is Pauley Perrette, who plays Abby…
It’s almost as big a tradition as the opening pitch in the New York market, but as the Major League Baseball season gets under way, carriage of baseball games involving New York teams remains up in the air–with both the…
Chuck Lorre, the executive producer of "Two and a Half Men," used a vanity card at the end of another of his shows, "The Big Bang Theory," to lament the "tough time" he has gone through recently, reports the Los…
A Food Network star has stepped into a public-relations disaster after turning down a request from a 6-year-old boy with cancer who wanted to cook a meal with her, reports TMZ.com. Ina Garten, Food Net’s “Barefoot Contessa,” initially turned down…