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Official Roundup of Primetime Emmys by the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences

Faster. Funnier. That’s what executive producer Don Mischer promised for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, and that’s what he delivered. For their part, Television Academy voters were determined to share the wealth. A total of ten networks shared the 28…

Tonight: The Primetime Emmys! Here’s a Ballot if You’re Watching at Home

It’s the 61st Primetime Emmys. The show is on CBS tonight, host by "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris. It’s on at 8 pm Eastern/Pacific, 7 Central. It’s live in the Eastern and Pacific time zones. To…

Lifetime the Latest Cable Network to Get Cooking

Lifetime is getting into the TV cooking genre with the pickup of a pilot for "Search for the Greatest American Recipe," hosted by Tyler Florence, Variety reports. The show will follow the TV chef as he travels the country looking…

Comcast Plans to Offer Subscribers Their TV Shows on Mobile

Comcast said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference that its new wireless Internet service will give subscribers the ability to watch their TV shows on their mobile devices, Reuters reports. The new wireless Internet service–a joint venture with Clearwire Corp….

ABC News Apologizes for Tweeting President Obama’s Opinion of Kanye West

ABC News apologized to the White House and CNBC after its employees heard President Obama call Kanye West a “jackass” and immediately posted the comment on Twitter, the Associated Press reports. ABC employees were listening in on a CNBC interview…

Hulu Considering Adding Subscription Services, PPV

News Corp. chairman-CEO Rupert Murdoch told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that the partners in the free online video service Hulu are looking to add subscription services and pay-per-view, Multichannel News reports. NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, whose company is…

Arianna Huffington Tries Hand at Sitcom Producing for ABC

Huffington Post founder and political pundit Arianna Huffington is going to give TV producing a try: ABC gave a script commitment to a multicamera comedy she is working on with Greg Malins, executive producer of “How I Met Your Mother,”…

Secrets of TV’s Grand Masters Now Can Be Found on YouTube

A trove of TV Academy interviews with TV legends including Milton Berle, Bob Hope and the recently deceased Walter Cronkite are hitting YouTube, and available through EmmyTVLegends.org, reports the New York Times. The site, drawn from the Academy’s decade-old Archive…

ABC News’ Sean Smith Makes Tracks for Fox

ABC News veteran Sean Smith is the latest to cross over to Fox News Channel, according to TVNewser. Smith follows in the footsteps of John Stossel beginning Sept. 21. Smith, who becomes vice president of news at Fox, has spent 18…

‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ Inspired LL Cool J’s New Song

Inspired by his role on "NCIS: Los Angeles," actor-musician LL Cool J today released a new song on iTunes — which also can be sampled on cbs.com and boomdizzle.com — according to CBS. The rap song, called "NCIS: No Crew…