"Monday Night Football" will shift from its traditional three-person team to two announcers, The New York Times reports. The odd man out of the booth is Ron Jaworski, who is being dropped from the program so he can focus on…
The funeral this Saturday for pop superstar Whitney Houston will be televised, according to media reports. CNN reported that the event is being made available for television and Internet outlets. The funeral will be held at New Hope Baptist Church…
That’s the question TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross addresses in this insightful entry, where he also praises Oprah’s don’t-miss interview with Houston that airs on OWN tonight, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 (click on this sentence to see Ross’ piece).
A cable food show has has been canceled after allegations surfaced that some of the host’s recipes were plagiarized from other chefs, reports the New York Post. Television chef Anne Thornton is accused of using recipes from chefs including Martha…
NBC has tapped a well-known television personality with experience in the dating genre to host its adventure dating series "Love in the Wild," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jenny McCarthy, who hosted MTV’s “Singled Out” in the 1990s, will join…
“Dancing with the Stars” appears to be courting presidential candidates who have dropped out of the race, and one of them, Michele Bachmann, has made it official that she’s not interested, the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog reports. Bachmann…
Fox has picked up Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s international talent show, "Q’Viva! The Chosen," according to TheWrap.com. The show features Lopez, Anthony and concert director Jamie King as they search for unknown Latin performers across 20 countries, the story…
A former co-star of Fox’s long-running medical series "House" has been cast as the lead in an ABC comedy pilot, reports Deadline.com. Kal Penn will star in "Prairie Dogs" as Neil, an unhip cubicle worker (or "prairie dog") working at…
The director and producer who made headlines last year by getting himself booted from his Oscars gig has a new job — and it’s right on target if he hopes to rehabilitate his image in the wake of that PR…
Larry King and CNN have called it quits, finishing the breakup they began when King left his job as host of “Larry King Live” in 2010, The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. The two sides agreed to call…