Sunday’s broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI on NBC set a record for U.S. television viewing, according to Nielsen’s fast nationals, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The game was watched by 111.3 million viewers, eclipsing Fox’s telecast of last year’s Super Bowl, which came…
A 34-year-old man who was a former contestant on a network reality show was killed over the weekend when he was hit by a train, TheBostonChannel.com reports. Jeffrey Fraza, a boxer who appeared on the show "The Contender," was hit…
A filmmaker who wrote and produced "9½ Weeks" and was a part of the Showtime series "The Red Shoes Diaries" died late last Friday at the age of 70, reports the Los Angeles Times. Zalman King, who had been suffering…
Fox has announced that the award-winning musical comedy show "Glee" will be on the shelf for two months, reports TheWrap.com. The show is going into a mini-deep freeze to make room on the Fox schedule for a comedy block that…
CNN has announced the appointment of a new national political correspondent. Effective immediately the cable network has promoted Jim Acosta to the post. Sam Feist, CNN Washington bureau chief and SVP, made the announcement. In a statement, Feist said: "Jim…
A second leading lady has been cast on Charlie Sheen’s new sitcom "Anger Management," following the news that "Becker" alum Shawnee Smith was cast in one of the lead roles, as previously reported. Selma Blair has snagged the role, reports…
A retired NFL star and former contestant on "Dancing With the Stars," who currently works as an analyst with the NFL Network and is a regular on Showtime’s "Inside the NFL," has been accused of being a deadbeat dad, TMZ.com…
In an incident that is being compared to the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” by Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl, NBC and the NFL have apologized for a performance by a singer during Sunday’s halftime show for Super Bowl XLVI,…
In order: Number One: Number Two: Number Three: Number Four: Number Five: The Super Bowl Commercial We Liked Best Here at TVWeek:
Comedian Will Ferrell starred in a Super Bowl ad that most viewers never saw, because it only aired in Nebraska, according to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The spot is the latest of what the article calls "beautifully bizarre" ads…