Fans in the U.S. and Mexico are mourning Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera, who was killed Sunday when the small plane she was traveling in crashed in northern Mexico, reports CNN.com. As previously reported, Rivera, 43, was developing an ABC comedy…
"The X Factor" producer Blue Orbit Productions was hit with a lawsuit by fired judge and British pop star Cheryl Cole, who claims she’s owed at least $2.3 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. Cole, who was fired…
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III has written a letter to MTV President Stephen Friedman asking him to pull what the Democratic lawmaker refers to as "the travesty called ‘Buckwild,’" The Washington Post reports. As previously reported, "Buckwild" is MTV’s…
NBCUniversal is talking with publisher Hearst about partnering over the cable channel G4, which could be rebranded as the Esquire Channel, tied to the Hearst men’s magazine, reports Deadline.com. The partnership would make sense, as it would allow the G4…
Yahoo and NBC Sports Group have formed a content and promotional partnership in which the two entities will collaborate on premium news and events to create original online and on-air programming, reports B&C. “While Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports Group…
ABC has gone above and beyond in an effort to get a comedy project starring John Leguizamo off the ground, but after passing on it for the second time, the network appears to have finally given up on the project….
Lifetime is rolling out special programming in response to the royal baby craze, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The cable channel announced plans for an hourlong special, "Secrets of the Royal Nursery." The show will air Thursday, Dec….
Starz is developing a sci-fi project from "Zoolander" producer Adam Schroeder and "Ray Donovan’s” Bryan Zuriff, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The drama, “Human Error,” is set in the near future, when artificial humans called "synthetics" are introduced…
The Super Bowl’s "second screen" — live-streaming of the event on CBSSports.com — has nearly sold out of ad inventory, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Fueling ad sales is the “exponential” growth in consumers’ familiarity with online video streaming…
[Updated 12/7/12 to correct that the film is on TCM at midnight ET which is 9 PM PT] Second Update on 12/8/12: TCM will repeat this movie on Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24th, 2012 at 8 pm Eastern time (5 pm…