Hulu may test a subscription service with an application on Apple’s iPad device, responding to pressure from its content partners to ask consumers to pay up for the online video site, the New York Times reports. Unnamed people familiar with…
Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe has a deal to host an episode of "Saturday Night Live," E! Online reports. E! Online adds it’s not yet known which week she’ll host, although the next several shows are already booked with hosts…
Talking with "View" co-host Joy Behar backstage at "The Tonight Show," Jay Leno said he expects ousted host Conan O’Brien to be back in the late-night fray to compete again, CNN reports. Behar asked Leno if he’s still upset about…
Democrats watch more TV in general, but Republicans are more heavily into watching sports. So says a new study by National Media Inc. We know about it through the reporting of our former colleague James Hibberd, who has written about…
WE’s newest reality show has found the geriatric equivalent of Snooki from "Jersey Shore": she’s a 70-something ex-New Yorker living in a retirement community who likes to joke about her favorite sex toys, the New York Daily News reports. Oh,…
That’s not all. "Gossip Girl" hottie Blake Lively will replace series favorite Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O’Brian. Rajskub, when told of the news, was seen with a glaring frown and overheard to say, crankily, "Whatever." And get this: Conan O’Brien will…
Turner Broadcasting is welcoming a new executive to the company today to be Vice President, Comedy Development at TBS, the company has announced She’s Kathryn Ann Busby, who has had stints as SVP of production at New Line Cinema, SVP-head…
"ABC World News" and "CBS Evening News" posted their lowest rated first quarters in total viewers since at least 1987, TVNewser reports. It was 23 years ago, in 1987,that Nielsen started using People Meters. ABC averaged 8.27 million viewers during…
Robert Oswaks has stepped down as the President of Marketing at Sony Pictures Television, the Hollywood Reporter reports. According to the article, "He joined the company in May 2000 in the newly created position of executive vp marketing, Columbia TriStar…
Sunbeam Television day in court, against Nielsen, wherein Sunbeam is alleging that Nielsen is effectively a monopoly that overcharges its customers and undercounts television viewers, has been scheduled, Media Daily News reports. The company’s antitrust case against Nielsen has been scheduled…