An actress with a long string of film and TV credits — including what may be her best-remembered role as Tom Cruise’s mother in the 1983 hit “Risky Business” — has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Janet Carroll was…
The 2011-12 television season officially wrapped up Wednesday night, with CBS continuing its strategy of airing repeat programming and Fox coasting to an easy win for the night behind the “American Idol” finale, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. According to Nielsen overnights, the…
One of the top program hosts in cable news has signed a new multiyear deal to remain with his network, Entertainment Weekly reports. The deal will keep Sean Hannity at Fox News for the foreseeable future, the story reports. As…
One broadcast network ended the 2011-12 season with a number of network records, including more nights at No. 1 in the key 18-49 demo than ever before. The network is the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Univision Communications reported that its flagship…
With the end of the 2011-12 television season Wednesday night, the numbers are coming in for the season as a whole. CBS emerged — for the ninth time in 10 years — as the most-watched network, The Washington Post reports….
One of the lead actors on a hit sitcom has revealed in an interview with The New York Times that he is gay. The actor is “The Big Bang Theory’s” Jim Parsons. Parsons, who was discussing his theater career with…
The ashes of a beloved cast member from the original “Star Trek” TV series made their way into space this week, with the launch Tuesday of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Houston’s Johnson Space Center, UPI reports. The rocket…
ABC has shot back in the legal battle with CBS over its "Big Brother"-like reality show, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Hollywood, Esq. CBS sued ABC and several producers earlier this month, as previously reported, claiming copyright and trade secret…
Fox News is firing back at Fairleigh Dickinson University, which released a study that claimed viewers of Fox News are less informed than those who watch no news at all, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The study was initially released…
The return of a vintage TV game show format has brought a ratings record for a cable channel, Deadline.com reports. The new show is “Hip Hop Squares,” based on "Hollywood Squares," the game show with the tic-tac-toe format that ran…