"Grey’s Anatomy" has promoted Sarah Drew to a series regular, starting with the show’s seventh season, EW.com’s The Ausiello Files reports. The former "Everwood" actress was promoted after Jesse Williams joined the full-time staff at the Seattle Grace hospital. Drew’s…
Donald Trump is pursuing Lindsay Lohan to star in the next season of "Celebrity Apprentice," the New York Post reports. The actress is mulling the offer. The troubled actress avoided jail this week after her alcohol-monitoring SCRAM bracelet was set…
A former production assistant at ESPN whose affair with the network’s sports analyst Steve Phillips led to both their dismissals has filed a defamation lawsuit against the network, the Associated Press reports. Brooke Hundley, 23, filed the lawsuit in Stamford…
"Whale Wars," the Animal Planet series that tracks the efforts of the marine conservation group The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has cast off series regular Capt. Pete Bethune as he stands trial in Japan for allegedly storming a Japanese whaler,…
The Style Network has ordered a third season of reality show "Giuliana & Bill," which tracks the long-distance relationship between Guiliana and Bill Rancic, who is best known as the winner of the first "The Apprentice," reports the Los Angeles…
A spokesperson for Larry King has confirmed that King’s wife, Shawn, 50, is recovering from apparently taking too much prescription medicine on May 28, the Associated Press reports. The incident happened at Shawn King’s home in Provo, Utah, the AP says. Her father…
"Judge Judy" beat "Oprah" for the ninth time in eleven weeks in ratings, and also won the daytime crown for first-run programming during the May sweeps ratings period, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. Both shows are syndicated by CBS Television Distribution. "Judge Judy"…
Time Warner two big ad-supported cable properties, Turner Broadcasting’s TBS and TNT are getting high single-digit increases in the upfront market, reports verteran media advertising reporter John Consoli at TheWrap. Furthermore, the article says, "[D]emand for Conan O’Brien’s new late-night…
Cablevision Systems Corp., John Malone, and Suddenlink Communications are among seven bidders vying for cable and broadband provider Bresnan Communications, reports Bloomberg News. (The story was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which is firewall protected.) Bresnan provides cable services…
ABC has finished selling its upfront advertising commitments for the next television season, and it’s tallied about $2.4 billion in inventory sales, or as much as 17% more than a year earlier, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog….