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Emmy-Winning Director Bails on TNT Pilot After Butting Heads With Creator

Trouble behind the scenes of a new TNT cop show brought about a quick exit for the multiple Emmy-winning director who was set to direct the pilot, Deadline.com reports. Gregory Hoblit, who won directing Emmys for “L.A. Law” and the…

Apple Ready to Make Big Announcement About iTunes

Apple is apparently about to unveil big news about iTunes, the Mac Observer reports. The Apple Web site today is teasing that it will have an “exciting announcement from iTunes” tomorrow. The Apple home page even displays four clocks hinting…

Guess the Surprise Oprah Has in Store for Streisand on Tomorrow’s Show; Hint: It Should Stir Some ‘Memories …’

Tomorrow’s "Oprah Winfrey Show" will be another red-letter day in the talk show queen’s final season in syndication, as she surprises guest Barbra Streisand with the appearance of her co-star from "The Way We Were," Robert Redford, the Orlando Sentinel…

ABC Veteran Ted Koppel Lets His Opinion Be Known About Cable News–And It’s Not Good

Former ABC anchorman Ted Koppel wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he criticized cable news outlets Fox News and MSNBC, and equated the product those networks present to the pyramid scheme Bernie Madoff sold to investors, TVNewser…

NBC Readying New Sitcom From ‘Seinfeld’ Writer

A veteran writer from the Emmy Award-winning "Seinfeld" has lined up a new NBC sitcom with comic Nick Thune headlining the show, reports Deadline.com. “Seinfeld” veteran Spike Feresten, who created and wrote the new show, will also be a co-executive…

Football Again Rules Sunday Ratings

The Fox overrun of the late NFL game and the NBC broadcast of the New England Patriots vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers were the top-rated programs Sunday night, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. NBC finished the night as an easy overall winner, both in…

Picketers Target NBC Reality Show

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) will send picketers to confront replacement workers hired by the production companies behind the NBC reality show “Biggest Loser,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show’s 50-member crew has been on strike…

Kanye West Dumps PR Firm That Helped Him Prepare for Lauer Interview

Kanye West had hired public relations company Rubenstein Communications to help him prepare for his interview last week on NBC’s "Today," and The New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog reports that the rapper and the PR firm are no longer working…

TV Writer Coleman Jacoby Dies; He Introduced Jackie Gleason to Art Carney, and Created Memorable Gleason Characters Such as Joe the Bartender and Reginald Van Gleason III

Coleman Jacoby, who wrote some of Jackie Gleason’s most memorable characters on the DuMont Network’s "Cavalcade of Stars" in the 1950s, has died, The New York Times reports. He was 95 years old. Jacoby and his partner Arnie Rosen were…

How Much Larry Hagman Can Viewers Expect in TNT’s New Version of ‘Dallas’? ‘Enough,’ Says One of the Show’s Other Returning Stars

When the revival of the Larry Hagman/Patrick Duffy prime-time soap "Dallas" premieres on TNT, there will be significant changes, reports TV Guide. Miss Ellie and Clayton are dead, for one thing, and Bobby is remarried. The network is negotiating to…