When TV gets ahold of a trend, there’s no stopping it, and lately the trend — apparently set off by AMC’s “Mad Men” — has been retro: ABC’s “Pan Am,” NBC’s “Playboy Club” and so on. Now ABC has bought…
For actor Nicolas Cage, his newest movie sounds a bit like art imitating life. Cage, in Toronto with “Trespass” director Joel Schumacher to promote the new thriller, talked about a frightening event in his own life that has some parallels…
News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, speaking at a media conference on Tuesday, noted that the company is trying to capitalize on its huge library of episodes of "The Simpsons" — and one idea is to create a digital…
Spike TV announced that it has given a renewal to one of its original series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cable channel ordered a 10-episode second season of the hourlong series “Bar Rescue,” the story reports. The show, which…
Television executives from companies including Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Viacom’s CBS said advertising remains strong in the second half of 2011, despite concerns that the economy may be slowing, reports Bloomberg. The executives commented on the strength of the ad market…
The Directors Guild of America has released a survey that highlights what appears to be a persistent problem for the television industry — the lack of diversity in prime-time television, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The survey…
Intensifying an existing competition between entertainment trade publications, the parent company of the entertainment news website Deadline.com sued the parent of The Hollywood Reporter, seeking more than $5 million in damages, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. Penske…
Ethan Hawke is making another run at series television after his Fox pilot "Exit Strategy" failed to get a series order in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This time Hawke is reportedly working on a cop drama, “Blue Tilt,”…
"Nielsen, [on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011] unveiled a push to turn the new online campaign ratings system it developed with Facebook into the online equivalent of the TV industry’s so-called ‘GRPs,’ or gross ratings points, which are Madison Avenue’s ‘currency’ for the…
Current TV has announced the hiring of a veteran TV exec as EVP of programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The channel has given the job to Shelley Lewis, who most recently exec produced the PBS newsmagazine “Need to Know,”…