Yahoo is preparing a slate of original programs to launch this fall, with eight short-form series to debut starting Oct. 3, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The lineup includes "The Failure Club" from filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, known…
AOL, the onetime darling of the late 1990s Internet boom, is considering going private, according to the New York Post. Early discussions have focused on finding a price that might convince AOL’s management to consider investing in taking the company…
CNN has acquired a tech company that developed a news app for the iPad, Multichannel News reports. Terms of the deal to acquire Zite were not disclosed. It had been reported recently that CNN was looking to purchase the firm…
With television set prices falling, a large-screen liquid-crystal display TV will soon cost less than an iPad, which is one-tenth of the size, reports Bloomberg. The average price of a 42-inch LCD TV will probably decline 10% this year, ending…
Beyonce’s news that she’s expecting a baby — revealed on television during MTV’s Video Music Awards — broke a record on Twitter, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Twitter reported that messages featuring the news were issued at 8,868 tweets per…
"The 2011 Video Music Awards scored MTV’s biggest audience in the network’s history with a record-breaking 12.4 million total viewers," MTV has announced. The show, which aried live on MTV on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, also did a big number…
Following weeks of rumors that she has been planning an exit from CBS’s daytime show "The Talk," one of the show’s co-hosts, actress Leah Remini, announced via Twitter that she will not be staying with the show, reports UPI.com. "It…
The family of a reality show contestant — including her 8-year-old daughter — has received death threats after an especially heated episode of the show aired Thursday night, TMZ.com reports. Shelly Moore, a houseguest on CBS’s “Big Brother,” played a…
Ray Romano and Mike Royce say they’re giving up on trying to find a new home for the show they created, which was canceled recently by TNT, Deadline.com reports. Romano and Royce have been shopping “Men of a Certain Age.”…
Apple is ending its 99-cent rentals of television shows, the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog reports. The company has decided to focus instead on sales of TV episodes. The reason? “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV…