The series still has a little ways to go, but Showtime has apparently seen enough. The pay-cable channel is pulling the plug on the current season of “The Franchise,” Yahoo Sports reports. The show is tracking Major League Baseball’s Miami…
Veteran media executive Barry Diller filed a 12-page complaint against the website BarryDriller.com Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Deadline.com reports. The suit against the site and Alki David alleges that David is using Diller’s name to profit inappropriately….
Jimmy Kimmel reportedly threatened to leave ABC if he wasn’t given the 11:35 p.m. time slot held by "Nightline," reports TVNewser.com, citing two sources close to Kimmel. As previously reported, ABC announced Tuesday it will move "Jimmy Kimmel Live" from…
A cable channel is touting Sunday’s premiere of a new drama series as the highest-rated series premiere in the channel’s history. The channel is BBC America, which rolled out the new period cop drama “Copper” to record numbers. “Copper,” from…
Playwright David Mamet, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Glengarry Glen Ross,” is behind a TV reboot of the late 1950s-early 1960s television series "Have Gun — Will Travel" that’s in development at CBS, Deadline.com reports. Mamet is writing the…
The home entertainment market has been struggling to move units, so a hot new release comes as good news for the market segment. The potential savior for the segment is “The Hunger Games,” TheWrap.com reports. The story reports: “The dystopian…
Just one day after news broke that a four-time Emmy winner was exiting a long-running daytime drama, the actress has changed her mind, Soap Opera Digest reports. The publication reports that original cast member Susan Flannery has now decided to…
Teenage pop superstar Justin Bieber will pay a visit to a familiar TV show in an upcoming episode, appearing as himself — in animated form — on Fox’s Sunday staple "The Simpsons," reports EW.com’s Inside TV. "The Simpsons" executive producer…
A British cult classic television show will get a reboot at Syfy, to be written by Joe Pokaski of "Heroes" and directed by film director Martin Campbell of "Casino Royale," reports Deadline.com. The classic series is "Blake’s 7," a 1978-1981…
Missouri television stations stand to lose a lot of advertising dollars in the controversy over Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks that women should be able to prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape," reports MediaPost.com. Missouri stations, including stations owned by…