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Report: Thinner iPhone With Larger Screen Due Next Month

The next version of Apple’s iPhone will debut next month and will include a design overhaul, reports Bloomberg. The new iPhone, set for release Sept. 12, will have a thinner body and larger screen, the story reports. The device will…

Dan Harmon, Creator of NBC’s ‘Community,’ Lands Blind Script Deal at CBS

CBS has signed "Community" creator Dan Harmon to a blind script deal for a multicamera comedy project to be produced by CBS TV Studios, reports Deadline.com. It’s the second recent TV deal for Harmon, who was ousted earlier this year…

Joy Behar’s New Show — to Air on ‘the G-Spot of Television’ — Gets a Name and a Premiere Date

Details are coming together for Joy Behar’s upcoming show, which will premiere next month, TVNewser.com reports. The Current TV show, to be called "Joy Behar: Say Anything," will debut Sept. 4, the story reports. The show will have "no agenda…

Will Variety Become a Sister Publication to The Hollywood Reporter?

The co-owner of The Hollywood Reporter is one of two final bidders for Variety, reports the New York Post. Jimmy Finkelstein, through his role as chairman of Prometheus Global Media, is one of the suitors for the entertainment trade publication,…

Anderson Cooper’s Talk Show to Get Overhaul for Second Season

"Anderson," the daytime talk show starring CNN fixture Anderson Cooper, will be overhauled by Warner Bros. for the show’s second season, including a new name and new features, reports B&C. The new name will be "Anderson Live," reflecting that the…

Cuba Gooding Jr. Surfaces, Responds to Arrest Warrant

Cuba Gooding Jr. has responded to a New Orleans arrest warrant that was issued for the Oscar-winning actor, the Los Angeles Times reports. As we reported yesterday, a warrant for municipal battery was issued in response to an alleged incident…

He Was One of Our Best-Known Writers. Controversial Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, TV Writer and Commentator Gore Vidal Dead at 86

Gore Vidal, 86, "died Tuesday [night] at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia, said [Vidal’s] nephew Burr Steers," reports the Los Angeles Times. In Vidal’s obituary by Tina Fineberg of the Associated Press, she writes, "Along with…

ABC’s Reality Lineup Crushed Under the Weight of NBC’s Olympics

NBC’s ratings juggernaut Olympics coverage continued to crush the competition in prime time Monday night, with most of the broadcast competition staying out of it by airing repeat programming. The few rival broadcast nets who did try out fresh programming…

Cuba Gooding Jr. Sought by Authorities

Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is reportedly wanted for arrest in New Orleans on a warrant stemming from a bar incident early today, according to E! Online. Gooding is accused of pushing around a bartender in a confrontation in the…

Why Former Rapper Snoop Dogg Has Reinvented Himself as Snoop Lion

The rap icon formerly known as Snoop Dogg — who says from now on his name is Snoop Lion — has reinvented himself, CBS News reports. Why? Because he’s now a reggae artist, having had his eyes opened by a…