It’s not often that Oprah Winfrey takes a tumble, but she has this week, according to Fortune magazine’s annual list of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." Though Oprah still has her fledgling Oprah Winfrey Network, with the ending…
What do “30 Rock’s” Tina Fey, “Desperate Housewives’” Eva Longoria and “Law & Order: SVU’s” Mariska Hargitay have in common? Answer: The three actresses are among television’s highest-paid female stars, reports Forbes.com. Both Fey and Longoria earned $13 million between…
"CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker has sold his first project under a three-year overall deal with ABC Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. ABC picked up "Chameleon," a drama from "World Trade Center" writer Andrea Berloff that…
The HBO marketing executive behind the debut campaigns for "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" plans to step down at the end of the year, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Courteney Monroe, who is currently HBO’s executive vice president…
The MSO Mediacom "has sent the FCC another letter asking it to step in to prevent blackouts during retrans disputes," writes our friend John Eggerton in Multichannel News. The article notes, "Mediacom is not taking the Federal Communication Commission’s ‘no…
The studio where "Dancing with the Stars" is taped received an envelope with a white powder inside, prompting a call to the authorities on Wednesday, reports the Los Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog. The substance was found to be harmless…
Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of "Gilmore Girls," has tapped a Tony Award winner to star in a new pilot for ABC Family, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Tony winner Sutton Foster will play Michelle, a Las…
Here’s quite a prediction we read about this afternoon at Barron’s website: "[Analyst] Collins Stewart’s Mayuresh Masurekar, who rates Amazon shares Neutral, this afternoon writes that the Fire could be a prelude to Amazon buying Netflix’s streaming operations: ‘We believe the…
Between 1961 and 1969, NBC’s hit Western "Bonanza" ranked no lower than fourth among all primetime TV shows. The peacock network is hoping for some deja vu. Today it has been revealed that NBC "has bought an untitled Western project from…
It happened in a scene from this past Monday’s episode of "Two and a Half Men" on Sept. 26, 2011. Here’s the description given by our good frined Lynette Rice at EW.com’s InsideTV blog: "Less than eight minutes into the…episode…Ashton…