Phil McGraw’s production company has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Gawker Media, claiming "Dr. Phil" suffered ratings losses after Gawker’s Deadspin website posted footage of his interview with the man behind the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax, according to The…
Aereo is taking the offense in its battle with CBS, asking a Manhattan federal court to rule that its technology doesn’t infringe on the broadcaster’s copyrights, reports the New York Post. The suit also asks the court to bar CBS…
YouTube will start selling paid subscriptions to channels over the next few weeks, in a move to compete with traditional pay-TV packages, reports Bloomberg. Each channel will be available for $1.99 per month, although prices could vary. The platform will…
USA Network is readying the kind of marketing push normally reserved for first-run shows to support its acquisition of reruns of the popular ABC comedy "Modern Family," reports Jeanine Poggi in Advertising Age. "There’s a lot riding on ‘Modern Family,’…
Al Jazeera America is looking for someone to run the new U.S. cable news operation, and a number of veteran TV news pros happen to be available. As it turns out, Al Jazeera has reached out to a number of…
Just a day after reports surfaced that a hacker group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army had hacked E! Online, the group struck again, this time hitting the Twitter feed of the parody news organization The Onion. The Onion had…
Spike TV announced that it is the new television home for a long-running series that the channel defines as “the rawest and most realistic of all reality shows." The show is “Cops,” which moves to Spike from Fox in September…
An agitated Dame Helen Mirren — dressed as the Queen — surfaced on a London street to try to get a bunch of drummers to pipe down after they disrupted her performance, the U.K.’s The Telegraph reports. Mirren told the…
A pioneering TV news anchor who became an actor on TV and in films, including appearances in “Scarface,” the “RoboCop” movies and “Rocky III,” has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mario Machado was 78. Machado, who often played journalists…
Fox’s Sunday night ratings got a lift from Mother Nature, as the rain-delayed NASCAR race in Talladega, Ala., ran into prime time and delivered the network’s best numbers of the night, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that Fox won…