NBC Cancels Series
NBC announced it has canceled one of its prime-time series, reports E! Online. The network pulled the plug on the drama "Do No Harm" after the airing of just two episodes of the series. Says the article, "The news shouldn’t…
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Bigger ‘Bang’ for CBS and a Season High for ABC Drama; ‘Idol’ Continues to Slide
CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” continued to rack up numbers worthy of television’s top-rated sitcom while ABC celebrated a turnout for “Scandal” that equaled the drama’s season high, based on Nielsen overnights for Thursday prime time. Fox’s “American Idol,” meanwhile,…
Shirley MacLaine Fires Back at Her Daughter’s Tell-All Book
The daughter of “Downton Abbey” actress and Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine didn’t exactly endear herself to her famous mom with her new book. The Toronto Sun reports that Sachi Parker’s new memoir, “Lucky Me: My Life With — and Without…
NBC Turns Over Friday Nights to News Division
NBC is getting out of the business of entertainment programming during prime time on Friday nights. The network announced programming changes that shuffle the schedules of its two newsmagazines and give NBC News total control of Friday prime time, TVNewser.com…
Congressman’s Staffer Fired Over Response to Sexy ‘2 Broke Girls’ Spot
Following a Super Bowl commercial in which the two stars of CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” danced around a stripper pole, a spokesperson for Republican Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador was fired over a tweet he sent about the spot, according to…
Actor Jumps From ‘New Girl’ to ‘About A Boy’
An actor who just finished an arc on Fox’s “New Girl” has been cast in the Hugh Grant role in the NBC adaptation of the movie “About A Boy,“ according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor is David Walton, who…
Is It Possible CBS Lost Money on the Super Bowl Despite Selling $240 Million in Ads? Not When You Calculate All the Money the Game Brings In to the Network in Other Ways
Updated on 2/8/13 at 10:20 a.m. to reflect information in a Los Angeles Times story on this same subject, in both our headline and the body of this item. We needed to have reported on the Times account in our…
Are NBC’s Woes the Peacock in the Coal Mine? Perhaps It’s a Signal That Broadcast TV, as We’ve Known It for the Past 60 Years, Is Going the Way of Brick-and-Mortar Record Stores and Bookstores
Our headline captures the thesis of an intriguing essay by our good friend — and former top TVWeek editor — Joe Adalian. Adalian, who now writes about TV for the New York Magazine blog Vulture, writes, “It’s impossible to exaggerate…
Suspect in L.A. Cop Slaying Names TV News Personalities in His Manifesto
The former Los Angeles police officer who is a suspect in the killings of a police officer and two other people has written a "rambling manifesto" that mentions several TV news personalities, reports TVNewser.com. In the note, Christopher Jordan Dorner…
New FX Show Sees Ratings Plummet in Its Second Week
A new FX drama series saw its ratings take a steep drop during its second week, reports Deadline.com. The 1980s-era Soviet spy series “The Americans,” starring Keri Russell, fell 39% to just 1.97 million viewers on Wednesday night. In its…