An eight-part documentary on the impact of climate change is in the works at Showtime with high-powered principals involved, including James Cameron and Jerry Weintraub, TheWrap.com reports. Citing individual with knowledge of the project, the piece says “The Years of…
"By tradition, the unincorporated village of Dixville Notch, N.H., located in Coos County, is one of two locations that get to cast the first votes of the presidential election just after midnight on Election Day," reports the Huffington Post. The…
She was a modern-day version of Mama Rose in "Gypsy" — that is, the stage mother to end all stage mothers. Teri Shields, 79, "who long exerted an iron fist in guiding the career of her daughter Brooke Shields from…
Here’s a throwback to the days when "Laverne & Shirley" was spun off from "Happy Days," which was itself a spinoff of an episode of "Love, American Style." A spinoff of CBS’s "NCIS: Los Angeles" is in the works, with the…
National Geographic Channel earned its best ratings in more than a year with the airing of a program that drew criticism for what some believed was a partisan bias — "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," reports…
Actress Lindsay Lohan will be charged with lying to police, according to a report on TMZ.com. The anticipated charge is in connection with a June 2012 car accident on Pacific Coast Highway, the piece reports. As previously reported, Lohan was…
The long-awaited "Battlestar Galactica" prequel will be rolled out Friday, with the film airing as 10 short episodes on Machinima’s YouTube channel, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The first episode will be released Friday, Nov. 9, with the subsequent installments rolled…
CBS announced that it will air a freshman drama in the post-Super Bowl spot, an hour that can draw huge audiences for a program, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. The show is "Elementary," the contemporary…
Following activist investor Carl Icahn’s purchase of a 10% stake, Netflix has adopted a shareholder rights plan — also known as a "poison pill" — to deflect hostile takeovers, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The move was…
The advertising industry is focused on an upcoming event that is so big it can be identified pretty much by a single letter, “L.” More accurately, it’s 2016’s Super Bowl 50, called "The L" for the Roman numeral it will…