NBC’s "30 Rock" has tapped the House Minority Leader to guest star on the show’s series finale, reports Deadline.com. The network confirmed that Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California will appear on the Jan. 31 episode. It was not clear…
A program from Fox News Channel fixture Bill O’Reilly has been bought by the National Geographic network, which wants to expand its original history-focused programming, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The project is based on O’Reilly’s best-selling “Killing…
As the TV critics Winter Tour tour starts today, Jan. 4, 2013, please click here to read TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross telling the story of how three pioneers worked extra hard to get cable TV programming noticed back when cable…
"Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are considering pairing up to star in and produce a multi-camera comedy together for Lionsgate TV and its subsidiary Debmar-Mercury," report Nikki Finke and Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The story continues, "In the past few…
Warner Bros. has settled the bulk of a $100 million lawsuit over “Smallville” that raised questions about the sensitive issue of vertical integration, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suit from Tollin/Robbins Productions sought more than $100 million in damages…
The sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to Al Jazeera, followed immediately by the ouster of the channel from the Time Warner Cable lineup, as we reported previously, has little-viewed networks feeling the heat, television writer Alex Ben Block writes…
A new drama is in the works at pay-cable channel Starz, with an Academy Award-winning screenwriter behind the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, “Crime,” comes from William Monahan, who won an Oscar in 2007 for his screenplay…
One of the hosts of the Fox News Channel went after a prominent journalist after being incorrectly attributed with a quote insulting Hillary Clinton — and got a correction for the misquote, TVNewser.com reports. The host, Greta Van Susteren, first…
Everyone seems to have something to say about the singing in the new movie “Les Miserables,” and among the most vocal has been onetime “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert. USA Today reports that Lambert “took to Twitter to say that…
A short-lived HBO drama series continues to create problems for the pay-cable network, which has been named in a lawsuit over the series. HBO and the American Humane Association were sued by a former senior employee of the AHA, who…