Japanese advertising giant Dentsu will buy London-based Aegis, the world’s largest media independent, for $4.9 billion. Aegis is the owner of the well-known U.S. media agency Carat. Carat’s biggest account may be the $3 billion global planning and buying assignment…
An Emmy Award-winning producer who’s currently executive producing FX’s "Justified" and Fox’s new fall drama "The Mob Doctor" has re-upped with Sony Pictures TV, Deadline.com reports. Michael Dinner will continue developing, producing and directing for the company for two more…
An actress from "Gossip Girl" and two other actors have been added to Mindy Kaling’s new Fox comedy, "The Mindy Project," EW.com’s Inside TV reports. “Gossip Girl’s” Amanda Setton will play Shauna Dicanio, who is described as “the tenacious, Jersey-born…
NBC and Microsoft are in talks for NBC to buy the part of MSNBC.com it does not own, and the site would be rebranded NBCNews.com, reports Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast. Says the article, "NBC and Microsoft plan to…
TNT has renewed the sci-fi series that it gets from DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg. "Falling Sky" will return to TNT with 10 new episodes that will air in 2013, the cable network has announced. TNT says in…
CBS announced the schedule today for its fall 2012 launches, with almost the full lineup of shows rolling out during the week of Sept. 24-30, Deadline.com reports. Only “Survivor: Philippines” will debut outside that time frame, premiering the previous week….
A well-known comedian has apologized for aiming a rape joke at a woman who was in the audience during a recent stand-up performance at a Los Angeles comedy club, The Huffington Post reports. Daniel Tosh, who’s best known for his…
Fox won the prime-time ratings battle Tuesday night, according to Nielsen overnights, even though its Major League Baseball All-Star Game saw its numbers slip from last year’s game, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The game scored a 2.9 average rating in the key…
The long-awaited return of Fox’s Emmy-winning comedy "Arrested Development" has at last begun, confirmed by a series of tweets on Tuesday night from the writer’s room, reports TVLine.com. Ron Howard, executive producer and narrator, tweeted, "’Arrested Development’ for Nexflix. IT’S…
The annual midsummer media conference of Allen & Co. in Sun Valley, Idaho, has usually been a tough one for reporters to crack, newswise. Bloomberg TV gives it a shot this year with live coverage and actually some cooperation from…