NBC is getting out of the business of entertainment programming during prime time on Friday nights. The network announced programming changes that shuffle the schedules of its two newsmagazines and give NBC News total control of Friday prime time, TVNewser.com…
Following a Super Bowl commercial in which the two stars of CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” danced around a stripper pole, a spokesperson for Republican Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador was fired over a tweet he sent about the spot, according to…
An actor who just finished an arc on Fox’s “New Girl” has been cast in the Hugh Grant role in the NBC adaptation of the movie “About A Boy,“ according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor is David Walton, who…
Updated on 2/8/13 at 10:20 a.m. to reflect information in a Los Angeles Times story on this same subject, in both our headline and the body of this item. We needed to have reported on the Times account in our…
Our headline captures the thesis of an intriguing essay by our good friend — and former top TVWeek editor — Joe Adalian. Adalian, who now writes about TV for the New York Magazine blog Vulture, writes, “It’s impossible to exaggerate…
The former Los Angeles police officer who is a suspect in the killings of a police officer and two other people has written a "rambling manifesto" that mentions several TV news personalities, reports TVNewser.com. In the note, Christopher Jordan Dorner…
A new FX drama series saw its ratings take a steep drop during its second week, reports Deadline.com. The 1980s-era Soviet spy series “The Americans,” starring Keri Russell, fell 39% to just 1.97 million viewers on Wednesday night. In its…
With ABC’s "Modern Family" no longer the highest-rated comedy on television and falling to a season low this week, it’s time to ask what’s happened to the show, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Blame its lead-in, competition from "American Idol" and…
The niece of movie star Julia Roberts has been carving out a nice acting career for herself, and now Emma Roberts has been cast in the lead role of the Fox pilot “Delirium,” EW.com’s Inside TV reports. Emma Roberts is…
CBS has picked up three more comedy pilots, bringing the network’s total to 12 — evenly split between single-camera and multicamera projects, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The latest batch includes comedy projects from producers behind “Friends,” “Smash” and “Scrubs.”…