The Tampa Bay Rays’ victory over the Boston Red Sox in game seven of the American League Championship Series, televised by TBS Sunday night, was the most-watched baseball game of the season and drew the most viewers of any baseball…
Turner Broadcasting got good news and bad news from baseball on Saturday. Technical difficulties kept it from televising game six of the American League Championship Series until the first inning was nearly over. When TBS joined the game, the score…
CNBC’s stock market cheerleader Jim Cramer said he’s been “humbled” by the decline of stock prices while he continued to say the worst was over, the New York Times says. Cramer says he apologized to viewers, then urged on Oct….
Lifetime is looking for laughs with its new original series “Rita Rocks,” which debuts Monday, USA Today reports. The network, long known for dramas such as “Army Wives” and its women in peril movies, is going with a family comedy…
Judith Miller, who left the New York Times after being jailed in the Valerie Plame-Scooter Libby affair and whose stores about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in Iraq turned out not to be true, is being hired as a…
HBO’s “In Treatment” has signed Hope Davis and John Mahoney to co-star in the show’s second season, the Hollywood Reporter says. Davis will play a malpractice attorney and Mahoney a company CEO. Also, Jeffrey Nordling has signed to co-star in…
Fox News’ Howard Wolfson, a political advisor to the Clintons, is now a professional Democrat on cable TV, New York Magazine reports in a profile on Wolfson, who was signed by the network as a paid contributor in July. He…
Cartoon Network has signed with Worldwide Biggies to adapt “NASTYbook,” a children’s horror series by Barry Yourgrau, into a CGI/live-action movie, the Hollywood Reporter says. The network also plans to work with Biggies to develop additional online content for the…
The National Cable and Telecommunications Association and the American Cable Association are finding that by working together they have a stronger voice in influencing national legislation on significant matters, Multichannel News reports. After some successes, the two groups representing cable…
As more glamorous teams from bigger markets got knocked out of baseball’s playoffs, Fox Sports President Ed Goren began singing the praises of the City of Brotherly Love. SWINGTOWN Jimmy Rollins and the Philadelphia Phillies earned a spot in the…