The Fox Network has announced a two-season renewal for a show that has become a fixture on the network, TheWrap.com reports. The show is Gordon Ramsay’s cooking competition "Hell’s Kitchen," which now will have an 11th and 12th season. The…
In a move to grab viewers who aren’t subscribers, HBO plans to make two new comedies available online for free, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. "The shows are the coming comedies ‘Girls’ and ‘Veep,’ both…
Showtime’s "Californication" is working on a spinoff based on a new character who will be introduced next season, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The character, Faith, was an innocent Catholic schoolgirl who becomes a groupie after falling in love with rock…
In a move that could open up the public airwaves to a flood of campaign advertising, a federal appeals court has struck down the FCC’s ban on political ads on public TV and public radio, Reuters reports. The story reports:…
Fox’s dominant “American Idol” claimed its share of casualties among the broadcast competition Wednesday night, as Fox soared to a big win for the night in the Nielsen overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. Among the victims: CBS’s reality staple “Survivor,” which hit…
A long-running daytime soap opera will head in a new direction with its first-ever lesbian story line, EW.com reports. The soap is the CBS staple "The Bold and the Beautiful." The series will introduce veteran soap actress Crystal Chappell as…
A character who is familar to generations of TV viewers — either as a live-action series star or in animated form — will now be reinvented again, as a live-action superhero on the big screen. The character is Sabrina the…
Screen siren Scarlett Johansson is still haunted by nude photographs of her that were splashed all over the Internet after an email hacking incident, CBS News reports, citing an interview in the May issue of Vogue. The story reports: “Johansson…
Fox has pulled a prime-time series off the schedule for the remainder of the season, replacing it with repeat broadcasts of a freshman comedy, Deadline.com reports. Christian Slater’s sophomore comedy "Breaking In" is off the schedule, with reruns of "New…
ABC’s only remaining daytime soap, "General Hospital," has been renewed, Deadline.com reports. Furthermore, the show that was created as a replacement for one of the network’s canceled soaps has itself been canceled, the story notes. The canceled show is "The Revolution,"…