The top 10 regularly scheduled television broadcasts of 2012 were dominated by sports and reality shows, with very little scripted programming represented, reports MediaPost’s MediaDailyNews. Three of the top 10 regularly scheduled shows were sports, with NBC’s "Sunday Night Football"…
Google has turned to "Seinfeld" for inspiration on an Easter egg, or a hidden message inside its search results, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The reference is to the holiday Festivus, which was created in a 1997 episode of the NBC…
HBO has optioned the rights to a sequel to bestseller "Game Change," which was about the 2008 presidential campaign, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The new book, set to be published in fall 2013, will come from "Game…
A comedy project from Chuck Lorre, the man behind "The Big Bang Theory" and “Two and a Half Men,” has received a pilot production order from CBS, reports Deadline.com. The project, called "Mom," is about a newly sober single mother…
Jennifer Love Hewitt is executive producing a modern-day take on the classic Jane Austen novel "Pride & Prejudice" for Lifetime, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The project, "Darcy’s Town," retells the novel in a small Virginia town, the…
PBS has named a new head of programming, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The job goes to Beth Hoppe, who has worked at the public broadcaster since August 2011. Hoppe replaces John Wilson, who is…
AMC, which has found success with period shows such as "Mad Men," is turning to Colonial times for a comedy called "We Hate Paul Revere," reports Deadline.com. The show tracks two brothers who live in Colonial Boston and, as the…
ABC Family has two "Romeo and Juliet"-themed projects in the works, with both based on young-adult novels, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. "Recovery Road," a 2011 novel by Blake Nelson, focuses on a high school student who is…
Apple is testing designs for a large-screen high-resolution television with component suppliers in Asia, reports The Wall Street Journal. (The WSJ is a subscription site and not all readers may be able to access the story.) The testing could mean…
The person Beatle George Harrison once called "The godfather of world music" has died. According to the Associated Press, "Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who…