The new Q Ratings are out, revealing the most popular stars on television, and one show dominates the top of the rankings, Entertainment Weekly reports. The show is CBS’s “NCIS,” with Pauley Perrette, who plays brainy, sensitive, Goth-looking forensic scientist…
DirecTV, the country’s No. 1 satellite company, posted a big rise in net income for the second quarter, Deadline.com reports. The company’s net income of $701 million was up 29% from a year earlier on revenues of $6.6 billion, which…
A former top television executive is urging stations to get on board immediately with online streaming of their live signals as well as past programming, TVNewsCheck reports. Preston Padden, who was a top executive with Fox, ABC, Disney and Metromedia…
On a Wednesday night when none of the broadcast networks was able to crack a 2.0 average rating for prime time in the 18-49 demo, Fox fared slightly better than the rest, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. CBS’s “Big Brother,” with a 2.5…
A football player who was one of the stars of the NFL in the late 1960s and 1970s and later pursued a successful career as an actor has died, Bloomberg reports. Bubba Smith, 66, was found at his home in…
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper apparently doesn’t have much sympathy for a reality TV couple who revealed this week that they’re broke, according to The Hollywood Reporter. After Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt came out with the news they’re broke and…
A former host of NBC’s “Today” show revealed some negative effects of working on the show in an interview with Good Housekeeping. Meredith Vieira told the magazine that her health suffered while she worked at "Today" and that the early…
A new conflict is raging in the U.K. phone-hacking scandal over allegations by the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. Heather Mills says a journalist working for Mirror Group Newspapers hacked…
As Katie Couric starts her first week at ABC, several former CBS colleagues have joined her, reports TVNewser.com. Bob Peterson, who was creative director at CBS News, is joining Couric’s syndicated show in that same role, the story notes. Matt…
The series listed by Guinness World Records as the longest-running science-fiction TV show is coming up on its 50th anniversary, and its current executive producer says he’s planning a “huge” celebration, TVLine.com reports. The show is the BBC’s "Doctor Who,"…