"Somebody does not want their MTV," writes Dominic Patten at Deadline.com. Patten continues, "Despite being the top show on cable last night, the network’s Video Music Awards lost more than half its audience compared with the 2011 show, which drew…
Clint Eastwood is the former mayor of Carmel, Calif., and he spoke to that town’s newspaper this week — The Carmel Pine Cone (est. 1915) — about his unconventional address before the Republican National Convention on Aug. 30, 2012. Reports…
An NBC series that has been one of the network’s few bright spots in the ratings in recent seasons sank to a historic low Thursday night, according to Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that “America’s Got Talent” fell to a 1.8…
News Corp. is reportedly in talks with Fox News chief Roger Ailes on a new multiyear deal, reports Gabriel Sherman at New York Magazine. A deal hasn’t yet been struck, although it’s thought that Ailes, 72, could ask for a…
Tom Brokaw returned to the airwaves Thursday after a health scare that sent him to the hospital. It turned out to be, in his words, a “dumb mistake,” as he accidentally took some Ambien and found himself making “less sense…
The Big 12 Conference has signed deals with Fox Sports Media Group and ESPN that extend and broaden the college conference’s partnerships with both media groups. The two media companies will share broadcast and cable rights to Big 12 football,…
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese and Steven Zaillian, who won an Academy Award for writing the script for "Schindler’s List," are partnering to executive produce the story of Roger Ebert, who may be the most well-known movie critic in the U.S.,…
Television advertising rates are soaring on local stations, as the U.S. presidential race enters its final months, reports the New York Post. At the same time, the amount of available ad inventory is shrinking, the story reports. Ad buyers are…
A report in The Wall Street Journal confirms that Jay Leno, longtime host of NBC’s “Tonight Show," took a big cut in his salary — a 50% cut, according to the network — when NBC came down on the show…
[Updated Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, 12:45 p.m. PT — headline rewritten to reflect that the singer who was reportedly offered the judge’s position, Enrique Iglesias, has had his name mentioned previously in connection with the job.This was pointed out to…