HBO is slated to make a half-hour dramedy pilot with Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Johnson will star in and executive produce the pilot, with Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson also serving as executive…
Scripps Networks Interactive has seen steep audience losses at one network and significant gains at another, perhaps indicating how the audience’s appetite is changing. The steep losses have been at Scripps’ Food Network, reports the New York Post. Food Network…
Al Jazeera America, the cable news network that is being made from Current TV, is opening its first U.S. news bureaus, and the channel’s initial list of sites includes places without many competitors, reports TVNewser. An unofficial list of 12…
"Today" co-host Matt Lauer, who has been widely blamed for last year’s ouster of his former co-host Ann Curry, appeared on "The Tonight Show" and told Jay Leno that he’s "not a guy who complains," according to The Hollywood Reporter….
The so-called "streamageddon" at Netflix, when the service lost hundreds of titles from its library, turned out to be not such a big deal after all, reports the Los Angeles Times. The "great ‘Netflix purge’ of 2013 was wildly exaggerated,"…
Nicki Minaj has landed some verbal blows against rival diva Mariah Carey as the sparring between the two “American Idol” judges continues. In an exchange of tweets with entertainment blogger Perez Hilton, Minaj called Carey “insecure” and “bitter,” USA Today…
The executive who has run a cable network that’s in more than 90 million homes is leaving after 6 years leading the network. Writes our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com, "Marc Juris, who has led Turner Broadcasting’s TruTV as EVP…
Glenn Britt, Time Warner Cable’s chairman and CEO, "said his company may consider capturing television content from public airwaves and delivering them to customers over an Internet connection, a practice that has shaken the entertainment industry.," reports Cecilia Kang in…
CBS’s sales team will go after the highest possible CPM increases in the upcoming upfront market, CBS Corp. President and CEO Les Moonves told investors Wednesday, Adweek reports. Moonves commented during the company’s first-quarter earnings report. Moonves said CBS has…
With a brutal season for broadcast ratings winding down, analysts are examining the results to try to find meaning — and at least one analysis came up with an interesting trend. TheWrap.com reports that while newer shows have generally failed…