TVWeek will mark the New Year’s holiday with an abbreviated publishing schedule, starting today, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. We are publishing our morning TVBizWire e-newsletter today but will not publish the Daily Viral Video or E-Daily newsletters. We’re taking off…
Movie ticket sales in 2011 fell far short of 2010, according to media reports, and now veteran movie critic Roger Ebert is sounding off with his top theories on why it happened. According to some reports, the movie audience in…
The actress who played Elly May Clampett in the 1960s CBS hit “The Beverly Hillbillies” has settled a lawsuit over a doll based on the character, Reuters reports. Elly May Barbie doll Donna Douglas sued Mattel in May over the…
Television this year broke ground in at least one way, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The story singles out an industry trend toward depicting gruesome deaths. Some of the deaths were so explicit that "even viewers who…
Fox News Channel, which continues to dominate the cable news ratings, has something to be concerned about in the year-end ratings, the Associated Press reports. Fox was the only cable news network to finish the year with a loss of…
The death of a chimpanzee that is said to have played Cheetah in the “Tarzan” movies of the early 1930s, which was reported yesterday, has become clouded by controversy, Time reports. “Cheetah” reportedly died of kidney failure at a Florida…
Sinead O’Connor is spilling the beans about her aborted marriage to Barry Herridge, which ended after 16 days, as we reported earlier this week. The singer revealed on her website early on that it had something to do with “a…
With the numbers for 2011 just about final, some changes have crept into the annual cable rankings, Deadline.com reports. No change at No. 1, where USA finds itself for the sixth year in a row. The continued strength of the…
E! President Suzanne Kolb tells TheWrap.com that the Kardashian clan, which is the focus of the network’s "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," is popular because "people aspire to be them or to befriend them." Kolb notes that she believes the…
CNN has unveiled plans for the rollout of its new morning program, which will feature Soledad O’Brien, B&C reports. The new show will debut Jan. 2, the day before the Iowa Caucuses, the story reports. O’Brien will host the 7-9…