"Saturday Night Live" is bringing back the star of a popular sitcom for a second hosting gig on the late-night sketch comedy show. Deadline.com reports that Melissa McCarthy, who received raves for her first “SNL” hosting spot in October 2011,…
Actress Jane Lynch of "Glee" and actor Wilmer Valderrama of "That ’70s Show" will be a part of a new Fox comedy series. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the actors will provide voices for the new animated show “Murder Police.”…
“The ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch ‘Djesus Uncrossed’ is an online hit, but viewers will no longer see commercials for Sears attached to it,” reports Paul Bond on the website of The Hollywood Reporter.. The story adds, “In an email to The…
Time Warner "announced it would spin off its Time Inc. magazine unit into a separate, publicly traded company, a move that will allow the media conglomerate to focus entirely on its cable television and film businesses," reports Amy Chozick on The New…
TLC has announced plans to shut down a series that has had a long run on the cable channel. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that “What Not to Wear” will wrap after its upcoming 10th season. The makeover series…
Actress Carrie Fisher, the iconic Princess Leia from the original “Star Wars” trilogy, gave a one-word answer when she was asked whether she will return as Princess Leia in the new “Star Wars” movies now in the works at Disney,…
Tuesday was another night of landmark ratings for the broadcast networks — and not in a good way. A number of shows sank to all-time lows in the key 18-49 demo, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that NBC’s “Smash”…
A number of the most successful programming chiefs in basic and pay cable recently met to talk about issues including the rapidly changing business landscape for cable, the challenges presented by new models such as Netflix and how they approach…
Veteran actor Sam Neill, whose credits include “Alcatraz,” “Crusoe,” and “The Tudors” on television, as well as “Jurassic Park” and “The Piano” on the big screen, has taken an integral role on the CBS drama pilot “The Ordained,” according to…
The 2013 winners of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism have been announced by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The awards recognize distinguished work produced…