A well-known conservative polical pundit for CNN, NBC and NPR — who was a child actor on TV in the 1950s — has died at age 63. The pundit and former child actor, Tony Blankley, had been battling stomach cancer,…
A cable show that had its season premiere last week came in as the highest-rated telecast on cable this season in the 12-34 demo, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog reports. The show is last week’s fifth-season debut of MTV’s "Jersey…
A spinoff of the hit Fox series “Glee” is dead, and a “Glee” star whose character is graduating will be back for season four, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Glee" star Cory Monteith said he will return for the show’s…
NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt spoke with candor at the semiannual Television Critics Association press tour about the network’s season so far, noting, "We had a really bad fall," reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Greenblatt spoke…
The Los Angeles Dodgers may end up with a prominent home-town owner, reports the Los Angeles Times. That owner would be the Disney family. The family of the late Roy Disney, who had a net worth of $1.4 billion in…
Fox will create a Saturday night programming block that will square up against NBC’s "Saturday Night Live," reports Bloomberg. The animation block will debut in January 2013, starting at 11 p.m. on Saturdays, said Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly, according…
Bravo has tapped an outspoken comedian for a weekly talk show, according to the Associated Press. The cable network plans to debut “Kathy,” starring Kathy Griffin, in the spring, the story reports. According to the report: “Bravo promised that ‘this…
MSNBC President Phil Griffin tells The New York Times that commentator Pat Buchanan’s time on the network may be over, amid criticisms from civil rights groups that his book "Suicide of a Superpower" is racist and anti-Semitic. Buchanan hasn’t appeared…
Current TV host Keith Olbermann, whose status at the network has been in negotiations, announced to his Twitter followers that he will be "running the election coverage on Current, after New Hampshire," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog….