A new study by the University of California at San Diego suggests that so-called “spoilers” — such as a paragraph early in a book that tips off how it will end — don’t necessarily spoil the fun, according to Reuters….
ABC Studios has tapped "Detroit 1-8-7" creator and executive producer Jason Richman and executive producer and showrunner David Zabel to work on a new drama project, which has sold to ABC, reports Deadline.com. The project is called "Two Roads" and…
"Breaking Bad" is set to return to AMC after the cable network and Sony Television came to an agreement, settling on 16 additional episodes for the drama about a high school teacher who turns to selling crystal meth, reports the…
"In a stunning development, Disney has shut down production on ‘The Lone Ranger,’ the Gore Verbinski-directed period Western that was to star Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title character," writes Mike Fleming at Deadline.com. Fleming continues,…
In September ABC News will broadcast tapes Jackie Kennedy (later Onassis) made months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the tapes she is interviewed by well-known Kennedy historian Arthur Schlesinger. The telecast will be the first time…
Time Warner Cable and Fox have signed an accord that will put a wide range of Fox’s prime-time programs on TWC’s Primetime On Demand VOD service, Multichannel News reports. The deal, which does not cover Fox’s TV Everywhere online service,…
A veteran sitcom star who received seven consecutive Emmy nominations for one show from 2000 to 2006 will return to comedy as the mom on NBC’s "Whitney," reports Deadline.com. The star is Jane Kaszmarek, who was a perennial Emmy nominee…
The popular HBO vampire series “True Blood” has come in for its share of criticism over sex and violence, but now it is coming under fire for something else altogether, Reuters reports. The community of witches appears to be up…
As the IBM personal computer marks its 30th anniversary, one of the 12 engineers who designed the original says the reign of the PC is about to end, the U.K. paper The Register reports. Mark Dean, IBM’s Middle East and…
TBS gave only 36 hours’ notice to George Lopez that it was pulling the plug on his self-proclaimed “baddest show in late-night” — a decision that is sure to have repercussions. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin examines how the…