Warner Bros. has settled the bulk of a $100 million lawsuit over “Smallville” that raised questions about the sensitive issue of vertical integration, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suit from Tollin/Robbins Productions sought more than $100 million in damages…
The sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to Al Jazeera, followed immediately by the ouster of the channel from the Time Warner Cable lineup, as we reported previously, has little-viewed networks feeling the heat, television writer Alex Ben Block writes…
A new drama is in the works at pay-cable channel Starz, with an Academy Award-winning screenwriter behind the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, “Crime,” comes from William Monahan, who won an Oscar in 2007 for his screenplay…
One of the hosts of the Fox News Channel went after a prominent journalist after being incorrectly attributed with a quote insulting Hillary Clinton — and got a correction for the misquote, TVNewser.com reports. The host, Greta Van Susteren, first…
Everyone seems to have something to say about the singing in the new movie “Les Miserables,” and among the most vocal has been onetime “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert. USA Today reports that Lambert “took to Twitter to say that…
A short-lived HBO drama series continues to create problems for the pay-cable network, which has been named in a lawsuit over the series. HBO and the American Humane Association were sued by a former senior employee of the AHA, who…
Appearing Wednesday night on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” Kathy Griffin made no apologies for her New Year’s Eve appearance in which she simulated oral sex on CNN host Anderson Cooper on live TV, USA Today reports. "If you…
A veteran TV and film director who helmed what was the most-watched television series episode of all time when it aired in 1967 has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Don Medford, 95, who directed the finale of the ABC…
"Dancing with the Stars" dancer Julianne Hough tells Cosmopolitan she was abused as a child, when she was sent at age 10 to study dance in London. "While I was in London, I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she said….
French film star Gerard Depardieu, who has denounced his homeland, suddenly became a Russian citizen Thursday, Reuters reports. The Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had granted citizenship to Depardieu, according to the report. The actor is leaving France…