By Chuck Ross — The NBC station in the nation’s 18th-largest market, Gannett’s WKYC-TV in Cleveland, "pulled three of the network’s Thursday shows, replacing them with a two-hour ‘Matlock’ episode from 1992," reports Mark Dawidziak in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The…
Dozens of television outlets, including CNN, Fox News and NBC’s "Today," were taken in by a baby-naming hoax, TVNewser.com reports. The hoax is the latest in a series of stories that have been reported as true by television news but…
CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, speaking at an investors’ conference, had some bad news for fans of Showtime’s serial-killer drama "Dexter": The show’s upcoming eighth season will apparently be its last, according to Deadline.com. Moonves referred to the eighth season…
Barbara Walters returned to "The View" Monday and pointed fingers about her run-in with chicken pox, which left her in the hospital and forced her to take a six-week medical leave, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 83-year-old said a…
A model has filed a lawsuit against Lionsgate Entertainment, alleging that its hit AMC drama series "Mad Men" uses her image in its opening sequence without permission and has failed to compensate her, reports TheWrap.com. Gita Hall May, who was…
"The Walt Disney Company will take a significant step toward equalizing the business of advertising on television and online this spring when three of the networks owned by the company, ABC, ABC Family and ESPN, offer advertisers guarantees for video…
The creator and showrunner of a Fox comedy series is leaving the show. Deadline.com reports that Greg Garcia will exit “Raising Hope” at the end of the season. The change is stipulated by his overall deal at CBS TV Studios,…
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is lobbying for advertisers to move to payment for live ratings plus 7 days (C7), versus the live ratings plus 3 days (C3) that they currenly pay for, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "As things stand now, advertisers…
The new project from the creator of the wildly successful AMC zombie series “The Walking Dead” tackles another edgy topic: exorcism. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that “Walking” creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman’s upcoming TV project is about a man…
Rupert Murdoch’s "white whale" has been a national cable sports network in the league of ESPN, and he’s now ready to take on the sports media giant with his own network, called Fox Sports 1, reports The New York Times….