After being trapped with his injured arm stuck in a boiler for 12 hours, a Connecticut man reflected on what fictional television character MacGyver would do to get out of the situation, reports People.com. The answer he reached wasn’t a…
Fox’s "The Good Guys" may be turning into a bad problem for the network, opines Bill Gorman on TVbytheNumbers.com. The program’s ratings have continued to drift down, despite Fox’s tactic of introducing the show in May with the goal of building…
An updated lawsuit from fired "Desperate Housewives" actress Nicollette Sheridan alleges that ABC dismissed her assault claim against series creator Marc Cherry by calling it "a light tap on the side of the head," the Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. blog…
HBO has given the greenlight to an original movie starting Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman and produced by James Gandolfini, reports Deadline.com. The project, "Hemingway & Gellhorn," will star Owen as Hemingway and Kidman as the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn whom Hemingway…
A former political operative who also once was a writer and executive producer on "The West Wing" has gotten his own show during primetime on MSNBC, the Los Angeles Times Show Tracker blog reports. Former Democratic aide Lawrence O’Donnell has…
It turns out that crashing a party at the White House won’t get you a reality show, but it won’t get you kicked off one either, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. Michaele Salahi and her husband Tareq…
It may be months before the remains of the late Gary Coleman reach their final resting place, as his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend are battling over the rights to his estate and ashes, reports People.com. Anna Gray, an ex-girlfriend who lives…
Greta Van Susteren has signed a new contract that will keep her at the Fox News Channel for several more years, the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. Her current contract was set to expire at the end of…
With concern that competitor CNBC will gain an unfair advantage once parent NBC Universal closes its merger with Comcast, Bloomberg LP is asking the Federal Communications Commission for more time to study the deal, the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town…
The Warner Bros. Television Group has created a new job to fit the talents of our good friend Scott Rowe. It’s senior vice president, worldwide communications. Rowe, a 16-year veteran at the studio, worked for a long time in Warner Bros. syndication…