TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross thinks Netflix’s new series "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright and directed by David Fincher (among others), is terrific! Please click here to read Ross’ fun, insightful essay about the show…
Nike has yanked an ad featuring Olympic runner and murder suspect Oscar Pistorius, with the ad’s copy reading, "I am the bullet in the chamber," reports Advertising Age. The ad was pulled from Pistorius’ website Thursday, the piece notes. The…
CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves told analysts Thursday that the network is in good shape for the fall and “we aren’t going to need very much” in the way of new programming, reports Deadline.com. Nevertheless, he said CBS "ordered a…
Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Chubby Checker is suing tech firm Hewlett-Packard over a smartphone app called “The Chubby Checker,” which reportedly estimates a man’s penis size based on his shoe size, according to LegalExaminer.com. The man whose name, up until…
Actress Jenny McCarthy, host of “The Jenny McCarthy Show” on VH1, has weighed in on film reviewer Rex Reed’s criticism of her cousin Melissa, and it boils down to this: "He can go to hell,” E! Online reports. As previously…
Mark Consuelos has been tapped as a lead opposite John Goodman in a comedy pilot, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The article notes that the sitcom pilot is "Alpha House," which is being done for Amazon Studios. "Yara Martinez and Kobi…
Time Warner is negotiating to sell much of its Time Inc. magazine division — including People, InStyle and Real Simple, Advertising Age reports, citing a report in another Time Inc. publication, Fortune. Fortune itself is reportedly not part of the…
For the first time, an Intel executive goes on-the-record about the company’s new over-the-top Web-based TV service. The most controversial feature of Intel’s new service is that it will have a camera in its hardware device to identify who’s watching…
Lady Gaga disclosed that she has a medical condition that has left her unable to walk, and has postponed several concerts as a result, reports People.com. Gaga, 26, said she has synovitis, a severe inflammation of the joints. "I’ve been…
Comcast has agreed to buy out General Electric’s remaining stake in NBCUniversal, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Comcast will reportedly pay $16.7 billion. The agreement speeds up a process that was previously expected to take several years, the…