CBS is in talks to take full ownership of TVGuide.com, after being in a 50/50 partnership with Lionsgate since spending $100 million in March to buy the stake previously owned by One Equity Partners, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. "I’ve…
Bethenny Frankel’s syndicated daily talk show now has a premiere date. Deadline.com reports that the show will debut Sept. 9. The program, from Warner Bros. and Ellen DeGeneres’ company, aired a successful six-week test last summer on several Fox-owned stations,…
E! Online said its Twitter feed was hacked, with the culprits sending out false reports Saturday about Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie, reports the Associated Press. The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility. The group has taken credit for a number…
"As the upfronts approach, it’s hard to scope out pilot pickup buzz at the major broadcast nets this year because there are few clear heat-seekers," writes Variety’s Editor-in-Chief for TV, Cynthia Littleton. Littleton, a veteran on the TV beat, continues,…
"For most of the past decade the USA Network has lived by the mantra ‘blue skies,’ which has translated into programming a string of upbeat hourlong drama hits, like ‘Burn Notice’ and ‘Royal Pains," writes our good friend Bill Carter in The New York…
"Jeff Hanneman, 49, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died," the Associated Press reports. The story continues, "Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a…
Veteran cable TV executive Bill Hilary has hooked up with a superstar to lend programming muscle to her new cable venture. The announcement, made today, May 3, 2013, reads: "NUVOtv, the first and only English-language cable network for U.S. Latinos,…
One of the rising stars of the Disney Channel will appear in an upcoming Warner Bros. comedy with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, reports Deadline.com. Ths star is Bella Thorne, who is featured in the hit Disney Channel sitcom "Shake It…
Today’s most intriguing non-TV related headline is this one from a Bloomberg story: ‘The Lawsuit That Could Bring Down the NCAA.’ The piece is by Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Mahler, who writes, "The storm that’s slowly rolling toward Indianapolis quietly gained…
The CEO of TV-streaming service Aereo told Bloomberg that threats from networks including CBS and Fox to switch to cable are merely a bluff. Lower advertising revenue and pressure from lawmakers would make it extremely difficult for the networks to…