PBS announced the return date for the popular period drama "Downton Abbey," whose fourth season will premiere in the U.S. Jan. 5, the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports. The premiere date is months after the program airs on British…
Oprah Winfrey revealed in an interview that she was recently a victim of apparent racism. In a video posted by ET Online, Winfrey, who is making the rounds of talk shows while promoting the new movie "Lee Daniels’ The Butler,"…
Lindsay Lohan’s guest-hosting gig on a late-night talk show produced the show’s best ratings this year, reports The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. Lohan hosted Monday’s installment of E!’s "Chelsea Lately," filling in for Chelsea Handler. The episode ranked as the…
CNN boss Jeff Zucker is hoping the cable channel’s resurrected "Crossfire" will tap into viewer interest that fires up around the start of a new broadcast season, with the show set to debut Monday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m., reports…
A casting announcement for a high-profile cable drama project brings together some of the players behind "Weeds" and "Homeland." Deadline.com reports that FX has cast Justin Kirk, one of the stars of Showtime’s "Weeds," in its pilot "Tyrant," which comes…
FX has a comedy project in the works from an actor known for his role on the NBC comedy series "Community." TheWrap.com reports that the cable channel gave Donald Glover a script development deal for a project based on the…
A new CBS program will take a look at the U.S. system of eduction from the point-of-view of teachers, Deadline.com reports. The two-hour special, "Teach," will air Sept. 6. The documentary, directed by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim of "An Inconvenient…
Just one night after one of its series sank to an all-time low in the ratings, CBS suffered the same fate with another show Monday night, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that CBS’s summer…
A high-profile new NBC prime-time show for fall has named its host. The New York Times reports that the network named Ryan Seacrest as host of “The Million Second Quiz.” Seacrest was widely expected to get the job with the…
FX’s "Anger Management" has cast an actress to succeed Selma Blair, who was ousted from the show in a nasty sequence of events back in June that went down after Blair allegedly criticized star Charlie Sheen’s work habits. Deadline.com reports…