A controversial NFL player who has a knack for making headlines has announced that he’s changing his name and going back to his original name, CBS Sports reports. Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco wants to be known from now on as…
"The NCAA slammed Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal Monday with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all the school’s victories from 1998-2011, knocking Joe Paterno from his spot…
With a judge recently approving the plan for the Tribune Co. to emerge from bankruptcy, " its flagship newspaper is likely to go on the sales block, but that’s not all. A host of other Chicago assets in the Tribune media empire, from…
Two more movie critics, Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, and Mick LaSalle, the San Francisco-based movie critic for Hearst Newspapers, have checked in with reactions to the killing of 12 people during a screening of the latest Batman…
The folks from PBS spoke to the nation’s TV critics over the weekend as part of the summer portion of the TV Critics Association tour, and our friend Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter was impressed. Writes Goodman: ‘PBS seemed dowdy and…
During PBS’ portion of the Television Critics Association tour over the weekend it was announced that award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will have have a new documentary on PBS stations November 18-19, 2012. Burns new documentary is called "The Dust…
"Mariah Carey is finalizing a deal to join Fox’s ‘American Idol’ as a new judge," writes our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com, adding, "I hear Carey would command a salary of more than $17 million for next season, which would…
"The Vampire Diaries," seen on The CW, and "Pretty Little Liars," seen on ABC Family, were the big TV winners at the Teen Choice Awards broadcast on Fox on Sunday, July 22, 2012. To see the complete list of Teen Choice Award-winners, please click…
Twitter employees "will spend 20 hours a day to help corral millions of Twitter messages from Olympic athletes, their families, fans and NBC television personalities into a single page on Twitter.com," reports The Wall St. Journal, adding, "Twitter’s Olympics hub,…
Jessica Ghawi, 24, who went professionally by the name of Jessica Redfield, was one of the 12 victims of the shooting massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Col, early today, July 20, 2012, according to a number of media reports….