Things appear to be getting tougher for singing and dancing competitions in the broadcast ratings, with Tuesday’s Nielsen overnights providing the latest indication. ABC’s two “Dancing With the Stars” installments were down significantly Tuesday from the previous week, TVbytheNumbers.com reports,…
Even as the mug shot from Lisa Robin Kelly’s recent arrest sweeps the Internet, Fox is making plans for a reunion of her former castmates on “That ‘70s Show,” EW.com reports. As we reported previously, Kelly was arrested Saturday on…
In the high-stakes morning ratings battle being waged this week between ABC and NBC, Tuesday’s second round went to NBC, the New York Daily News reports. NBC’s “Today” averaged 5.497 million viewers Tuesday morning to 5.141 million for ABC’s “Good…
NBC is rolling out plans to wrap up a new drama’s freshman season with a two-hour finale to air during May sweeps, TVLine.com reports. The show is “Awake,” which has been a snoozer in the ratings — with recent figures…
A veteran TV news correspondent has left ABC News and may be headed for a rival broadcast network, reports TVNewser.com. Andrea Canning parted ways with ABC last week, the story reports. No one has officially said where she is headed,…
A cable reality show based in New Jersey is getting a spinoff, with the new show to be based in Chicago, Deadline.com reports. The Style Network has greenlighted “Chicagolicious,” a spinoff of its successful “Jerseylicious” series, which is set in…
After weeks of rumors that Ryan Seacrest would be replacing Matt Lauer as host of NBC’s “Today” show, Seacrest sat down with Lauer on the show this morning and revealed what he really will be doing. The “American Idol” host…
The 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and among the 38 honorees were series on HBO, Showtime and NBC along with one of the big shows in…
HBO enjoyed a big season premiere for its latest hit drama series on Sunday, The New York Times reports in its Media Decoder blog. "Game of Thrones" returned for its second season, drawing 3.9 million viewers and ranking as the…
"Community" creator Dan Harmon posted an apology on his blog for making the "horrible, childish, self-obsessed, unaware, naive and unprofessional decision to play someone’s voicemail to me," reports Deadline.com. That voicemail was from "Community" co-star Chevy Chase, who was upset…