With Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announcing a major restructuring Thursday, industry watchers are focused on what it means for the company’s direction. CNET reports that Ballmer "has launched a restructuring of teams along functional, rather than product, lines, stressing that…
The former president and founder of Los Angeles station KCET-TV, a longtime director of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. James L. Loper was 81. Loper helped turn the public broadcasting station…
NBC, which already has one high-profile new game show in the works in "Million Second Quiz," is doubling down on the game show genre. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the network has given a straight-to-series order for "Wall…
Al Jazeera America has hired four anchors as it continues to staff up for its late summer debut, reports the Los Angeles Times. The network hired Jonathan Betz, Richelle Carey, Morgan Fogarty and Del Walters, the story says. Betz won…
Netflix is talking with Imagine TV’s Brian Grazer about producing another season of "Arrested Development," which would mark the show’s fifth season and its second on the streaming site, reports Bloomberg. “We are in conversations with them to do another,”…
Embattled television chef Paula Deen is bringing in a big gun as she struggles to emerge from a scandal involving her use of the N-word. Deen hired Patty Glaser, a Hollywood attorney for Keith Olbermann and Conan O’Brien, as part…
In an exclusive story our friends at Deadline.com write of a new series in development at NBC that will be focused on the style of classic Hollywood films, "or a celebrity’s signature style (think Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly,…
Nickelodeon has doubled its order for a spinoff series. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the cable channel greenlighted 20 additional episodes of the "iCarly" and "Victorious" spinoff comedy "Sam & Cat." The first season’s episode count will now…
NBC rolled out a new series Wednesday night, and like most of the programming opening this summer, it bowed to less-than-spectacular viewer numbers, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that the new dramedy "Camp," starring…
Top executives from major TV sellers opened up about a new trend in the television set marketplace: the arrival of inexpensive 4K UHD television sets from third-tier and second-tier manufacturers. Dealerscope questioned them about whether the trend poses a threat…