Amanda Knox, the American at the center of a media storm during the sensational trial that accused her of murdering her 21-year-old roommate while studying in Italy, has had her acquittal overturned, reports The New York Times. Italy’s highest court…
TBS is bringing back a comedy series for a fifth season. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the cable channel ordered a 13-episode season of "Cougar Town," which will launch in 2014. The order is a bit short of…
Amazon has greenlighted a project based on a popular zombie movie. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the online company is moving forward with a pilot based on the 2009 action-comedy “Zombieland.” "The film’s writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, are…
Actress Debra Messing, known for NBC’s “Will & Grace” and “Smash,” will play the lead in a new CBS comedy. Deadline.com reports that Messing will star in an untitled pilot — formerly known as “Mother’s Day” — from Julie Rottenberg…
A training video produced by the Internal Revenue Service has turned into an embarrassment for the agency. Deadline.com reports that the IRS has admitted that the clip, made in 2010, was a mistake. The video uses IRS staffers to parody…
The broadcast networks continued to struggle to find viewers Sunday night, with the overrun of CBS’s coverage of the March Madness NCAA men’s basketball tournament helping to push the network to a comfortable win for the night, based on preliminary…
Coverage of the March Madness NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is blowing away recent years’ tournaments. CBS Sports and Turner Sports announced that combined coverage of the opening week on TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV is averaging a 6.3/14 overnight rating/share,…
Multiple Emmy Award winner Bill Cosby got a website shut down after targeting the site in a dispute over its name. L.A. Weekly reports that the website, Cosbysweaters.com, backed off on using the name rather than put up a legal…
A new report goes inside the turmoil at NBC’s ‘Today’ show and the high-profile ouster of Ann Curry, revealing tension between Curry and her co-workers and focusing of Matt Lauer’s role in her sudden exit from the show. The report…
CBS and "The Amazing Race" producers have apologized for a segment on the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The segment used a B-52 memorial in Hanoi, Vietnam, as part of the show, the story reports. "We want to apologize…