The Super PACs have finally put to rest fears that they’re not in a spending mood this year. In the runup to today’s Super Tuesday elections, the political funding organizations loosened the purse strings and shelled out more than $6…
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced that it has sold the broadcast television syndication rights for the sitcom “The Middle” in more than 92% of the U.S. Making the announcement today were company President Ken Werner and Executive Vice President/General…
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducted eight new members — three of them posthumously — into its Hall of Fame last week, and TVWeek Open Mic writer Hillary Atkin was on hand to document the historic event. Click…
Fox has decided to pull the plug on one of its drama series, with the show’s producer planning to shop it to other networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Steven Spielberg series “Terra Nova” has been the subject of…
The bloodbath continues for conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, which continues to lose advertisers — and now has lost two radio stations — in the wake of a verbal attack by the host on a law student who…
"Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence," Fox News reports. The article continues, "The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects…
A rock superstar and his well-known family are being made into an animated series, Reuters reports. A Toronto-based animation studio — Cuppa Coffee Studios, which is also behind Comedy Central’s “Ugly Americans” — is working on a show that brings…
ABC’s dating show “The Bachelor” has made it clear it wants Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow for the show, and Tebow is apparently open to it — or is he? The show’s host, Chris Harrison, told Access Hollywood he met…
After seeing viewers turn out for Fox’s “American Idol” and “X Factor” and NBC’s “The Voice,” another network has announced plans for its own singing competition. CW will roll out “The Star Next Door,” from Queen Latifah, for a summer…
“Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry testified Monday in actress Nicollette Sheridan’s wrongful termination case against the show, describing the circumstances under which he hit Sheridan on the head, the Detroit Free Press reports. Cherry said he thought he had permission…