CBS has pulled the plug on a drama pilot amid a legal hassle over alleged similarities between the project and an Oscar-winning film, Deadline.com reports. Rather than face a court battle over the similarities between CBS’s "Quean" and "The Girl…
A veteran rock ‘n’ roll guitar player who fronted a self-named band for much of his career has died, E! Online reports. Ronnie Montrose, best known as frontman for the group Montrose, was 64. Montrose reportedly died Saturday of prostate…
The news director at NBC’s Los Angeles TV station, KNBC, is leaving, according to a number of media reports. Vicki Burns, the news director, has only been at the station since August 2010, when she moved from New York to L.A. In…
"When the television season ends in May, what will matter most — for both networks and advertisers — is the ranking of shows once digital video recorder playback is included in the viewership totals. In a comeback victory for scripted…
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has released a video targeting the HBO movie “Game Change,” which focuses on the 2008 election, TVNewser reports. Palin’s camp has been critical of the movie, in which Julianne Moore plays Palin. The movie’s…
Two radio talk shows from the left side of the political spectrum will be simulcast on cable. The two personalities are Bill Press and Stephanie Miller. Both of their morning radio shows are coming to the Current cable channel this…
Oprah Winfrey has scheduled a sit-down interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late Whitney Houston, TV Guide reports. The telecast will also feature interviews with Patricia Houston, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law and manager, and the singer’s brother, Gary…
Cable Networks are ready to present their programming to advertisers in the upfront, but there’s at least one problem: All the shows are starting to look the same, Advertising Age reports. The trend has been toward look-alike auction, pawn, bargain-hunting…
An Oscar-winning conceptual designer and illustrator who is credited with creating the look of the original “Star Wars” trilogy has died, Entertainment Weekly reports. Ralph McQuarrie, 82, died Saturday in Berkeley, Calif., from complications arising out of his long battle with Parkinson’s disease,…