A celebrity attorney who’s a familiar face in the media has turned down a request from former “Jersey Shore” star Angelina Pivarnick to pick up Pivarnick as a client for a potential lawsuit against MTV. TMZ.com reports that attorney Gloria…
Bob Costas sparked a debate Sunday night when he spoke in favor of gun control during halftime of the Cowboys-Eagles game, reports The New York Times. His comments came after Saturday’s murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs starting linebacker Jovan Belcher,…
A veteran character actor who appeared on dozens of TV shows including "Mannix" and "The New Phil Silvers Show" has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pat Renella was 83. Renella, who built his reputation playing gangsters and hoods, portrayed…
As if Lindsay Lohan didn’t already have enough problems, the IRS has reportedly seized all of her bank accounts in an effort to collect her unpaid federal taxes, reports TMZ.com. The government filed tax liens against Lohan for 2009 and…
"News Corp. [has] said that it is shutting down The Daily, its ambitious but expensive attempt to create an iPad newspaper, on Dec. 15," reports our friend Nat Ives at Advertising Age. The article continues, "Following layoffs of a third of its…
Don Rhymer, a writer behind the CBS comedy "Evening Shade" and the 20th Century Fox Animation hit "Rio," has died, reports Deadline.com. He was 51 and died of cancer on Wednesday. Rhymer wrote for both TV and feature films, with…
News Corp. said News International CEO Tom Mockridge will leave the company at year-end, reports Deadline.com. The departure isn’t surprising given that Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is in line to take over the publishing unit when it’s…
Gannett and DirecTV reached a last-minute retransmission agreement, allowing DirecTV to continue retransmitting signals from Gannett’s 23 television stations, reports Deadline.com. Gannett had warned viewers that a signal disruption was possible if the two companies couldn’t break an impasse over…
A new milestone has been reached in the age of the digital video recorder. Multichannel News reports that more than half of all pay-television households now include a DVR. The number of pay-TV homes with DVRs jumped to 52% from…
NBC announced a number of scheduling moves as it scrambles to resuscitate its Thursday night lineup, which has been getting battered in the ratings. “NBC‘s experiment with a newsmagazine in the iconic Thursday 10 p.m. time slot is over,” Nellie…