Nexstar Broadcasting Group has announced a new project in partnership with web programmer Mixx to launch a "real-time social media gossip channel" called Gossip Hot Spot, B&C reports. The broadband channel will aggregate A-list gossip from Twitter, Facebook and other…
HBO was so knocked out by the pilot for the horse-racing drama “Luck,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte that it has picked up the project for a series, Deadline.com reports. The show, from Michael Mann and David Milch, examines the…
Tuesday night’s telecast of the 2010 MLB All-Star Game on Fox received a 9.1 household rating and a 15 share for the prime-time portion of the game (8:30-11 p.m.) in preliminary metered market ratings, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. Those figures are…
Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson (she played the woman who adopted the baby Benjamin Button in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") has lined up a Lifetime TV movie according to Deadline.com. The casting is in keeping with Lifetime’s recent…
Although TNT has just started two summer runs–"Rizzoli & Isles" and "The Closer"–the network has already plotted the summer finales for these and other dramas currently on the air, reports The Futon Critic. On Tuesday, Aug. 24, "Memphis Beat" and…
The airing of the episode of "Deadliest Catch" on the Discovery Channel on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, featuring the final hours of Captain Phil Harris was " beautiful, heartfelt and poignant," says the Back Seat Cuddler in a review of the show. …
We wish them the best. Maybe this will be the Hollywood marriage that will last, primarily because this actor and actress are more international stars. "Spanish actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz tied the knot in the Bahamas earlier this…
[Warning: this contains spoilers from the finale of MTV’s "The Hills" that first-aired on Tuesday, July 13, 2010.] The finale of MTV’s "The Hills" left many viewers puzzled as to its meaning, MTV itself reports. Says the article, recounting the…
Justin Bieber, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Charles Barkley, Rachael Ray, Tyson Gay, Sugar Shane Mosley, Penn & Teller, Joey Chestnut, and Kavya Shivashankar are just some of the celebrities who will appear on a reality show this summer It’s season two…
While scripted series continue to thrive on cable, viewers are giving a big "ho-hum" to them on the braodcast networks, our friend Gary Levin reports for USA Today. According to the article, "ABC’s Sunday duo of ‘Scoundrels’ and ‘The Gates’…