The annual stock-option allowance for Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has been slashed, reports Bloomberg. The allowance was cut in half, from $3 million to $1.5 million, the story reports. Hastings will receive the same salary for 2012 as for…
TVWeeek will mark the holidays with an abbreviated publishing schedule, starting today, Friday, Dec. 23, 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 Monday, Dec….
With a string of controversies hammering her media empire, and with her talk show plans dashed because no major TV stations were interested, 2011 was a tough year for Bravo reality star Bethenny Frankel. So what’s her next move? She’s…
A mishap just as 50 Cent was about to come onstage during the “X Factor” finale caused injuries to three members of the stage crew, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A stair riser came unhinged and took off, knocking down…
MTV has put out a casting call for participants in a new reality show, and it invokes a hit sitcom to describe the kind of people it’s looking for, the New York Post reports. The network wants real-life "Big Bang…
What do Roundsearch, Facebranch and Bockmail have in common? They’re all websites that appeared during 2011 on TV shows, and they’re all fake, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Television shows had a field day with creating fake website names…
ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced today that the network has decided on the new co-anchor of its overnight news program, "World News Now," and its half-hour morning newscast, "America This Morning," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The job is…
Nielsen has released its list of the Top 10 regularly scheduled series of 2011, with only two scripted shows managing to crack the list. The top show in Nielsen’s rankings in Fox’s Wednesday version of “American Idol,” with an 8.1…
A series starring Ricky Gervais is set for its second-season debut, UPI reports. The show, which also stars Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, is “An Idiot Abroad," which will bow for its second season on the cable channel Science on…
Organizers of the Grammy Awards announced today that they will give Steve Jobs, the late CEO and founder of Apple Computers, a posthumous Special Merit Award, reports CNET.com. Jobs received a technical Grammy in 2002 for Apple’s contributions to the…