Longtime “Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels isn’t exactly camera-shy, but he usually limits his appearances to brief cameos on his late-night show. He stepped out of character Tuesday when he was the center of attention at “Comedy on…
Style Media unveiled a broad development slate for 2013-2014, adding nine new series to its programming efforts, along with the previously announced “Glam Squad” (working title). Among the new series for the beauty, fashion and home design-oriented network are projects…
Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World is just out, and among the seven people deemed worthy of getting their own cover for the magazine are hip-hop mogul Jay Z and Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence….
Eight unaired episodes of a canceled comedy series will air online. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the episodes of ABC’s "Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23" will appear on ABC.com, iTunes and Hulu. When the show, which…
A former ABC Television Network executive who was recognized as a technology pioneer has died. Deadline.com reports that Preston Davis died Monday at 63 following an illness. Davis retired as president of broadcast operations and engineering in 2011, after working…
Ann Curry’s ouster as co-host of "Today" was planned under the code name "Operation Bambi" by former executive producer Jim Bell, reports Brian Stelter in an in-depth report in The New York Times Magazine. Bell landed on the term after…
Aereo Chief Executive Chet Kanojia expressed skepticism that broadcast networks would make good on their threats to move to cable to circumvent his service, the New York Post reports. Executives for Fox and Univision talked earlier this month about converting…
Jon Stewart took aim at CNN on Wednesday’s “Daily Show” on Comedy Central, poking the cable news channel for what turned out to be a false report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing, Politico reports. As we reported…
After a report surfaced that Fox’s "The Cleveland Show" had been canceled, network sources were trying to clarify the situation. The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that Fox denied the report, although sources did not go on the record…
Al Jazeera America, the new network created from Al Gore’s Current TV, may not be ready to debut until Labor Day, although it has an internal goal of starting in June, reports the New York Post. Given that the network…