A current hit CD has topped sales of 5 million units in the United States — the first time any album has achieved that milestone since 2004, the New York Daily News reports. The CD is “21,” by British soul…
Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings will earn less than two other executives at his company in 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. As previously reported, Hastings’ compensation was slashed, with his stock-option allowance cut from $3 million…
Showtime has posted the pilot for "House of Lies" online, although the show has some changes, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The pay network bleeped the curse words and blocked out the show’s nudity, the story says. The show…
A beloved simian who was arguably the most famous animal in the history of movies has died at age 80 of kidney failure. "Cheetah, the playful chimp who rose to fame in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies of the 1930s,…
The star of FX’s "Rescue Me" is coming under fire for a parody of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" that he posted online last week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Denis Leary’s parody of the beloved Christmas special includes Charlie Brown…
An alternative to Facebook has been gaining momentum in recent weeks and has its sights on reaching 400 million users by the end of 2012, Bloomberg reports. Google’s answer to Facebook, Google+, saw almost one-quarter of its total consumer base…
All of the big four broadcast networks were beaten in the prime-time ratings Monday night, reports The New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. The winner in the key demo of viewers 18 to 49 was Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. The network’s audience…
A Christmas Eve tweet from comedian Bill Maher that poked fun of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s religious beliefs has prompted calls for a boycott of HBO, the home to Maher’s show "Real Time," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show…
The apparent suicide of Joe Bodolai, a Canadian television producer and former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” shines a light on the darker side of Canadian comedy television, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bodolai was found dead Monday in a…
Television adultery is running rampant, with prime-time television "starting to look like an ad for Ashley Madison, the online dating service for married folks," writes T.L. Stanley in the Los Angeles Times. Shows that have been touched by adultery include…