Prospect Park, the company that is migrating ABC’s canceled soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" to the Web, has reached its first agreement with "All My Children" cast members to continue the show, reports Deadline.com. The actors…
News Corp. will pay 3 million pounds, or $4.7 million, to settle claims that its defunct tabloid News of the World hacked the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, reports Bloomberg. Included in the settlement are a 2 million-pound…
VH1 has greenlighted a new docu-series, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The half-hour show will focus on celebrity stylist June Ambrose. "The June Ambrose Project" will track Ambrose and her assistants as they work on established…
CBS’s eagerly awaited season premiere of the retooled “Two and a Half Men,” with Ashton Kutcher taking the place of longtime star Charlie Sheen, appears to have hit it out of the park in the ratings. The numbers are preliminary,…
Bill O’Reilly, the host of ‘The O’Reilly Factor" on Fox News, tells Newsweek that he believes he has "more power than anybody other than the president." "I can get things changed, quickly,” he said, according to the story. “I don’t…
Now that the Emmys’ look back is out of the way the focus shifts tonight to the immediate future of television and what the fall season will bring. No fewer than 60 season premieres and series premieres are on tap…
A veteran character actress who appeared in many films and TV shows and may be best known as the woman from whom Jerry stole a marble rye bread on NBC’s "Seinfeld" has died, the L.A. Times reports. Frances Bay, 92,…
The possible sale of online-streaming site Hulu is at risk of running aground even as bids continue to come in, Reuters reports. The news service reports: “Among the issues are conflicts over complicated digital rights, a wide bid-ask gap, and…
Early returns on the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmys, televised Sunday night on Fox, are not particularly encouraging, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The broadcast averaged 12.4 million total viewers, the second-lowest tally on record, according to the report. Only the 2008 show on…
One of the iconic figures of broadcast news for more than three decades is said to be in talks with NBC News to join its upcoming newsmagazine “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” TVNewser reports. Citing a Wall Street Journal report,…