ABC has a new untitled single-camera comedy project in development, with Conan O’Brien’s Conaco Productions and Warner Bros. TV producing, Deadline.com reports. The show is based on “Keep Swinging,” a Kindle Single memoir by Rick Marin. “This is the first…
An unknown person called in a bomb threat overnight to the CNN Center in Atlanta, reports TVNewser.com. The caller also claimed to have hostages at the network’s Atlanta headquarters. My Fox Atlanta reported that the authorities searched the CNN Center…
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel today launched HuffPost OWN, a web section on The Huffington Post’s website, OWN and Huffington Post announced. The site is designed to provide “practical advice and ideas to help users find motivation, inspiration and fulfillment,”…
Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Billy Joel and Jon Bon Jovi are all scheduled to perform on a televised concert to raise money to benefit the victims of superstorm Sandy, NBC has announced. The benefit, called "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together,"…
ABC is seeking to dismiss the "pink slime" lawsuit brought against it by Beef Products Inc., which is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for the network’s reporting on finely textured beef, reports TVNewser.com. ABC and on-air staffers Diane Sawyer, Jim…
Russ Levinsohn, the former interim chief executive officer of Yahoo!, said his successor Marissa Mayer will require years and a patient board to turn around the Web company, reports Bloomberg. "You can’t turn that company or any company of size…
"Billionaire Carl Icahn acquired almost 10 percent of Netflix, operator of the largest online video streaming service, and is considering ways to maximize value," reports Bloomberg. The story continues, "The shares rose the most since January. Icahn said in a filing today…
A Hurricane Sandy tweet from Lindsay Lohan has caused an uproar on Twitter, with many of those commenting on it apparently seeing it as insensitive, according to the website Hurriyet Daily News. Lohan tweeted: "WHY is everyone in SUCH a…
One thing about Twitter as a news source is that it’s fast. Unfortunately, that also means that it’s not always fact-checked, and CNN fell into that trap Monday night, reports TVNewser.com. At approximately, 9:30 p.m., the handle @CNNWeather tweeted that…
Apple announced a major management move Monday that involved two executives being let go — including the one who oversaw the launch of the doomed Apple Maps, reports Deadline.com. Software chief Scott Forstall and retail head John Browett were given…