Being shuffled to Friday night isn’t good news for a TV series, but it does beat getting canceled. So it’s reasonably good news — at least for the time being — for the troubled ABC series “Happy Endings.” The Huffington…
CNN had a surge in ratings Tuesday night as the channel split time between covering the Christopher Dorner manhunt in California and President Obama’s State of the Union address, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. While overall ratings for…
Two new series are in the works at ABC Family, Deadline.com reports. The cable channel has ordered a show called "Dancing Fools" and a docu-soap called "The Vineyard," the story reports. The premise of "Dancing Fools" is being kept quiet,…
A media company started more than 110 years ago — in 1902 — is in talks with Time Warner about acquiring some of the Time Inc. magazines, reports The New York Times Media Decoder. Says the story: "Time Warner is in…
One of the producers behind the Fox series “Glee” has signed an overall deal with ABC Studios. Deadline.com reports that “Glee” co-executive producer Stacy Traub joins the company’s “Middle Age Rage,” a comedy pilot at ABC, as executive producer. “Written…
Mark Consuelos has been tapped as a lead opposite John Goodman in a comedy pilot, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The article notes that the sitcom pilot is "Alpha House," which is being done for Amazon Studios. "Yara Martinez and Kobi…
ABC has released this press release: ABC ANNOUNCES MIDSEASON SCHEDULING MOVES “Celebrity Wife Swap” Returns with All-New Episodes Beginning Tuesday, February 26 at 8:00 p.m., and “The Taste” Moves to 9:00 p.m. That Same Night “Happy Endings” Moves to Fridays…
Time Warner is negotiating to sell much of its Time Inc. magazine division — including People, InStyle and Real Simple, Advertising Age reports, citing a report in another Time Inc. publication, Fortune. Fortune itself is reportedly not part of the…
A former White House press secretary under President Obama, who also was a senior adviser to the 2012 Obama campaign, is moving into TV news. Politico reports that Robert Gibbs has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a contributor. “MSNBC…
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision came up with a simple formula for success Tuesday night, beating all the English-language broadcast networks in the key 18-49 demo, based on Nielsen overnights. The secret to its success was skipping the State of the Union…