Al Gore, who has made dozens of investments since he lost the 2000 presidential race, might gross about $70 million from the sale of his Current TV to the pan-Arab, Qatar-backed cable channel Al Jazeera, reports Bloomberg. Gore, who won…
CBS has tapped one of the hosts of "The Talk" to co-host its 13th annual special about the Super Bowl’s top commercials, reports Deadline.com. “The Talk’s” Aisha Tyler will join CBS Sports NFL analyst Boomer Esiason as co-host of the…
Viewers will pick the ending of a new episode of "Hawaii Five-0," with CBS saying the twist is the first ever of its kind, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The Jan. 14 episode will allow viewers to vote for the person…
The sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to Al Jazeera, followed immediately by the ouster of the channel from the Time Warner Cable lineup, as we reported previously, has little-viewed networks feeling the heat, television writer Alex Ben Block writes…
Everyone seems to have something to say about the singing in the new movie “Les Miserables,” and among the most vocal has been onetime “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert. USA Today reports that Lambert “took to Twitter to say that…
Media stocks performed well during 2012, with most of them beating the upswing in the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index, Deadline.com reports. The S&P was up 13.4% during the year, the piece notes, but pacing the big media conglomerates…
Two incidents during C-SPAN’s coverage of the fiscal cliff maneuvering on Capitol Hill caused some observers to think the network had been hacked — and led to an apology from the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Both incidents involved…
The return date for "Arrested Development" remains unclear after Fox posted a blurb and an episode lineup on its website that said the show’s revived version would debut on Netflix on May 4, but quickly yanked the item, reports the…
Tribune Co., which emerged from bankruptcy on Monday with new owners and board of directors, is expected to focus on television but may eventually become a smaller company, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The new Tribune’s board…
Showtime has announced plans for its biggest free preview weekend ever, sending out its programming lineup to more than 80 million U.S. homes during the weekend of Jan. 11-13, 2013, Multichannel News reports. “The network currently attracts 22 million subscribers…