The numbers are in for the premiere of HBO’s high-profile new series "The Newsroom." So what’s the headline — is it a hit or a miss? As it turns out, the Jeff Daniels-led series came in somewhere in the middle,…
An original cast member on CBS’s “Criminal Minds” has signed a two-year deal to remain on the procedural, reports Deadline.com. Matthew Gray Gubler’s salary has been increased to more than $100,000 per episode, the story notes. Gubler and co-star Paget…
A prop head that resembled former President George W. Bush has been edited out of the online version of "Game of Thrones," reports The Washington Post’s Celebritology blog. The head is now "as nondescript as possible, resembling no one famous,"…
Tennis Channel may find itself on the block by year-end if the Federal Communications Commission agrees to give the network another 16 million households, reports the New York Post. A decision is pending at the FCC, which requested a stay…
TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross talks about the evolution of the TV Station Summit — and what lessons we can learn from its development. Please click here to read.
The Daytime Emmys’ move from broadcast to cable produced what many observers would consider a predictable result: The audience got smaller. The 39th Daytime Emmy Awards drew 912,000 viewers on HLN on Saturday night, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It…
The entertainment unit of News Corp., which includes its Fox movie studio and television networks, may split off from its newspaper division, The New York Times’ Dealbook reports. The publishing business would be separated from the company’s most profitable businesses,…
Facebook, which has come under fire for a lack of diversity on its board, named Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as its first female board member, reports Bloomberg. Facebook has been looking to add directors to make its board more…
"Storage Wars" star Dave Hester and rapper Trey Songz have settled their lawsuits over who can say "YUUUP!," according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. Hester sued Songz last November, with Songz countersuing in April. Both men argued the word…
NBC won the Sunday night ratings battle, if it can be called a battle, with the lowest winning average rating in the key 18-49 demo in recent memory — a 1.2, according to Nielsen overnights. But NBC was the only…