Donald Trump won a $5 million ruling in a nasty legal battle with former Miss USA hopeful Sheena Monnin, the New York Post reports. Monnin, who won the state title for Pennsylvania, had become disenchanted with the beauty pageant, calling…
In what is being called the first casualty of a stricter stance on carriage rates, cable giant Time Warner will drop the arts channel Ovation at the end of the year, Variety reports. The move comes just a couple of…
CBS got a solid ratings performance from its comedy block Monday night and eked out a narrow win over NBC, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that CBS’s special one-hour “How I Met Your Mother” delivered a 3.4 average rating…
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” moves up to the 11:35 p.m. ET/PT (10:35 p.m. CT) slot in ABC’s late-night lineup — and out of its long-held midnight slot — starting Jan. 8, and the network is backing up the move with a…
Social media service Twitter and ratings provider Nielsen Holdings are creating a partnership to measure the online chatter generated by television shows, reports Bloomberg. Called the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating, the service will be available in the second half of…
Just hours after a report surfaced that Suri Cruise was receiving lavish Christmas presents from her mom, Katie Holmes — with The Huffington Post reporting a $24,000 playhouse as the centerpiece of a $49,000 bounty — Suri’s dad, Tom Cruise,…
NBC executives are reportedly considering replacing Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" when Leno’s current contract expires in 2014, writes Don Kaplan in the New York Daily News, and the latest rumblings have them moving late-late-night host Jimmy…
Just days after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Discovery has canceled the docu-reality show "American Guns," Deadline.com reports. The show, which tracks a family of gun makers, has drawn angry messages on its Facebook…
After hitting a snag in its attempt to revive two canceled ABC soap operas last year, the production company behind the effort appears to have the project back on track. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Prospect Park has…
A Florida man who was caught in the FBI’s “Operation Hackerazzi” after hacking into celebrities’ e-mail accounts has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, CNN reports. “Christopher Chaney, 36, stole nude photos, scripts and personal information from the e-mail…