A journalist who urged viewers to contact an NBC executive to air their complaints over the network’s Olympics coverage has been booted from Twitter, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder. Guy Adams, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British…
Two weeks after actor Fred Willard was arrested on a lewd conduct charge, ABC is pulling the remaining original episodes of his improv show "Trust Us With Your Life," according to The Hollywood Reporter. As previously reported, Willard was arrested…
A male-focused comedy produced by John Wells has been bought by Fox, reports Deadline.com. The single-camera comedy, “Hard Up,” is based on an Israeli format. Wells, who co-created the U.S. version of "Shameless," will executive produce "Hard Up" with Etan…
"The Big C" has received a renewal from Showtime for a final season, but its extremely short order raises the question whether Laura Linney’s character will succumb to cancer, reports TVLine.com. The order for the show’s fourth season consists of…
Showtime’s "Homeland" has a plan in place that addresses what to do with the series if real-world events come too close to the themes being handled in the show, reports the New York Post, citing Showtime executive David Nevins.The show’s…
Yahoo’s interim chief executive officer is leaving the company after its board passed him over for the permanent top job, instead hiring former Google executive Marissa Mayer, reports Bloomberg. Ross Levinsohn took on the interim role in May when ex-CEO…
Segment producers for "Attack of the Show" have filed a class-action suit against the G4 Network and owner NBCUniversal Media over pay, classification and what they claim are unfair businesses practices, reports Deadline.com. The lawsuit was filed by Sean Jordan,…
Oprah Winfrey’s sputtering OWN cable network “remains on track” to reach profitability during the second half of 2013, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said today, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Discovery is a partner in OWN. The company previously projected that…
CBS’s Leslie Moonves has waded into the debate over how NBCUniversal is covering the London Olympics, after a chorus of viewer complaints arose — especially online — over NBC’s strategy of tape-delaying of much of the coverage, B&C reports. Moonves…
A “daytime drama” is playing out at CBS’s top-rated daytime soap opera, where the executive producer and head writer has been ousted, Soap Central reports. “The Young and the Restless” is giving the boot to Maria Arena Bell and bringing…