Ricky Gervais, whose awards show hosting gigs have produced, um, mixed results (to put it delicately), says he’s ready to step in following the departure of Eddie Murphy as host of the upcoming Oscars, THR reports. Defying predictions after a…
Spike TV has named a Disney/ABC Cable Networks Group executive to the post of executive VP, programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tom Zappala, recently the executive vice president of acquisitions and scheduling at Disney/ABC, gets the Spike job, the…
The creator of a panel cartoon that has been appearing in newspapers since 1936 has died, People magazine reports. Bil Keane, who created “Family Circus,” was 89. Keane succumbed Tuesday to congestive heart failure at his home in Paradise Valley,…
MSNBC is reportedly keeping a high-profile political analyst off the air just as he’s making the rounds to promote his new book, TVNewser reports. Pat Buchanan has been on the other major cable news networks with his book "Suicide of…
An executive who was with HBO for 33 years before departing in July has accepted a job in the NBCUniversal corporate family, B&C reports. Ross Greenburg, the former president of HBO Sports, will produce documentaries for the NBC Sports Group,…
A veteran broadcast television network newsman who was a pioneer of political journalism has died, ABC News reports. Hal Bruno, the longtime political director for ABC News, was 83. Bruno also once worked for TVWeek’s sister publication Advertising Age. Bruno…
After the winningest coach in major college football history became a casualty of an ugly scandal at Penn State, many of the university’s students vented their anger at the media, The New York Times reports. Penn State fired coach Joe…
A recently launched daytime talk program has been renewed for a second season, reports B&C. The show is Anderson Cooper’s "Anderson." One key to the pickup is that the show will now be airing on Fox’s WNYW in New York, instead…
A little more than a month after Hank Williams Jr. started a war with Disney, ESPN and others by making a Hitler reference, another well-known personality appears to have committed a similar faux-pas. In the latest incident, "The Chew" host…
CNN talk show host and NBC talent show judge Piers Morgan has been carrying a double workload for almost a year now, and he has had enough. Saying "juggling’s harder than it looks," Morgan announced he will quit the NBC…