The most “time-shifted” television moment of 2011 was one that happened early in the year, according to TheWrap.com, citing a report by TiVo. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s Super Bowl flub — an incomplete pass to Mike Wallace during Super…
A show that has been on hiatus for more than four years at MTV is returning to the network, reports the New York Daily News. "Punk’d" will return with a sneak peek on New Year’s Eve, with former host Ashton…
Thomas Rutledge, who resigned as chief operating officer of Cablevision Systems, has resurfaced with a new job: chief executive officer of rival cable operator Charter Communications, reports Bloomberg. As recently reported, Rutledge’s departure was called "a staggering loss" for Cablevision…
NBC will make full seasons of some of its new fall series available online for free over the holidays, allowing viewers to catch up on their TV viewing, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Some returning series…
Lifetime has tapped an actress from NBC’s "The Playboy Club" as a series regular in a new drama series, Deadline.com reports. Naturi Naughton will tackle a role in "The Client List," according to the story. On the show, based on…
Graham Brown, an accomplished actor who performed at London’s Globe Theater and appeared on a number of TV shows including the NBC sitcom "Sanford & Son," has died at the age of 87, the Associated Press reports. Brown died of…
Sunday’s season finale of "Homeland" was a ratings winner for Showtime, pulling in the biggest audience for any first-year show in the network’s history, The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog reports. The first airing of the show drew 1.1…
Fox News Channel’s prime-time lineup lost viewers in 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. But the network still beat CNN and MSNBC combined, the story notes. Fox News declined 9% in prime time for the year,…
With a flood of talk shows jockeying for position in the fall 2012 marketplace, another contender has reached the 80% milestone, B&C reports. “Jeff Probst,” starring the “Survivor” host, has been picked up by stations representing 80% of the domestic…
Updated 8:20 p.m. on 12/19/2011 with correct picture of Dan Frazer. Thanks for the commenters who noted that the picture we originally posted was not Frazer. We had pulled the wrong picture. One of the stars of the hit police…