History Channel has announced plans to debut a new series Jan. 8 that will be a spinoff of the channel’s most popular show, TheWrap.com reports. The new show is “Cajun Pawn Stars,” set at the Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry…
A campaign created in the name of Fox’s "Glee" announced the winners of grants totaling $1 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. The "’Glee’ Give a Note” initiative donated grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 to 73 schools nationwide to help rescue…
ESPN and the NCAA have extended their television rights agreement through 2023-24, reports the Associated Press. ESPN will have the network worldwide multimedia rights to 24 championships in various sports and exclusive international rights for the "March Madness" men’s basketball…
In what one analyst is calling a "staggering loss," a top cable executive has announced that he will depart later this month for undisclosed reasons, reports Bloomberg. The executive is the well-known, well-respected and well-liked Tom Rutledge, the chief operating…
CBS is shaking things up with its Friday and Sunday prime-time lineups. The network rolled out plans Thursday for the new configuration, with the new Friday schedule launching Feb. 17, TheWrap.com reports. A rearranged Sunday night lineup kicks off two…
Joy Behar has become increasingly vocal about her HLN show’s cancellation as the program winds down, reports The New York Times. Behar, who taped her final episode on Thursday, initially toed the company line in a November statement about the…
The woman behind a commercial that’s familiar to anyone who watched television in the 1970s has died. In the commercial, a little boy named Mikey, known to be a picky eater, takes a bite of a new cereal called Life….
In an effort to regain the approval of its subscribers over the holidays, Netflix is offering DVD subscribers an extra disc as a freebie for orders placed during the year-end promotion, reports Bloomberg. The promotion is a reversal of Netflix’s…
Controversial British actor, comedian and cultural lightning rod Russell Brand now has a U.S. late-night show, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. FX has ordered six half-hour installments that it’s calling "specials," the story reports. Brand will provide an “unfiltered take…
MTV has named its first Artist of the Year, part of a Top 10 list that is dominated by female recording artists, USA Today reports. The Artist of the Year is Katy Perry, who ran off a string of No….