This year’s Super Bowl ads have been incredibly litigious. First, Lindsay Lohan filed a suit against E*Trade for its Super Bowl babies ad. Then, luxury goods maker Louis Vitton sued Hyundai for using the Vitton logo in one of its…
By the end of spring, CNN’s state of the art high definition studio will be ready to launch. The network’s Atlanta studio is undergoing a massive changeover and once done, all CNN domestic programming will be in HD. Located at…
Missy Chase Lapine, the writer of "The Sneaky Chef," the book which she claimed Jerry Seinfeld’swife, Jessica, had used as the basis for her successful recipe book "Deceptively Delicious," is after the Seinfelds again, reports the New York Daily News….
Showtime, which last year used the Los Angeles Times as a major component of its Emmy campaign, is turning to social media networks Facebook and Twitter this time around, according to our good friend and former TVWeek colleague James Hibberd…
Our good friend Harry Jessell, who runs the editorial at TVNewsCheck and who, for many years was a reporter and then the editor who ran B&C, unearthed an important video the other day that everyone connected with TV should watch,…
Peter Graves, who was best known for his role as leader of a group of special agents in the TV show “Mission: Impossible,” died Sunday of an apparent heart attack, according to various media reports. He was to have turned…
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with its annual "The State of the News Media Report." A quick glance shows that the only delivery methods of news that have increased in numbers of viewers and users, year…
A severe storm on the East Coast Saturday night knocked out the premiere of Lifetime’s heavily promoted original movie, “Who is Clark Rockefeller?” The network said Sunday that it temporarily lost transmission power during the telecast due to the punishing…
The national Screen Actors Guild board agreed to team up with the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists for joint bargaining on a new primetime TV contract, TheWrap reports. Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will…
Larry David says his HBO sitcom "Curb Your Enthusiasm" will probably come back for another season, Reuters reports. Six seasons of the show already have been made and aired. According to the article, "I think there’s a pretty good chance…