Longtime anchors Kaity Tong and Jim Watkins have been bumped from their posts as WPIX-TV–owned by Tribune and affiliated with the CW–has created a deskless role for its new 10 p.m. anchor, Jodi Applegate, reports the New York Daily News. Tong will now…
Over at FX, its highest-rated show ever draws about 5 million viewers a week. So the show, "Sons of Anarchy," has been picked up for its fourth season with a 13-episode order, reports Michael Ausiello at EW.com. According to the…
"Hawaii Five-O" executive producer Peter Lenkov has a goal for the remake of the classic television show: to persuade James MacArthur, 72, who played the original "Danno," to appear in a cameo on the CBS show, reports EW.com’s The Hollywood…
Mississippi high school student Constance McMillen, the lesbian student who sued her school district after it blocked her from attending the prom because she wanted to bring her girlfriend, will become the focus of an ABC Family television movie, reports…
On "Dallas," nobody got the better of oilman J.R. Ewing. And in real life, the actor who played him, Larry Hagman, had similar success in a lawsuit against Citigroup, reports the New York Times’ DealBook blog. Hagman won $11.6 million…
"Verizon FiOS will become the third affiliate for ESPN’s college football highlights/scoring channel and will add ESPN 3D to its roster next year as part of a new comprehensive, carriage pact," reports our good friend Mike Reynolds at Multichannel News….
Max Weinberg, the drummer in Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, and the leader of Conan O’Brien’s band for all the years Conan’s been on the air, has revealed that he’s recently had open heart surgery that Weinberg describes as "massively invasive,"…
What is the significance of the news, reported earlier today, that the cast of "Glee" has now surpassed the Beatles with the numbers of singles they’ve has listed on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart? The analysis of Kyle Anderson at the…
The annual Labor Day Jerry Lewis telethon to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association is undergoing a major change for 2011, reports the AP. Instead of the 20-plus-hour grind that has characterized the event throughout its history, the 2011…
The executive producer of the new "Criminal Minds" spinoff, Chris Mundy, has lost his job to veteran showrunner Ed Bernero, reports TV Guide. Mundy, who wrote the pilot for "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior," had never run a TV show before….