In the long-running rivalry between late-night hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno, the numbers appear to be shifting in the young fall season. Letterman, whose CBS talker “Late Show with David Letterman” has typically wound up second to Leno’s NBC…
The Girls Scouts are warning of the dangers of reality TV after a study by the Girl Scouts Research Institute concluded that reality shows are having a negative effect on young women, TMZ.com reports. The study found that reality television…
Lady Gaga won an injunction against an animated character known as Lady Goo Goo, blocking the release of a single that parodies Gaga’s music, CBS News reports. Today’s decision by London’s High Court stops the release of “The Moshi Dance”…
BBC America recorded its best-ever quarter in the third quarter in prime time (up 18%) and total day (up 23%), according to Nielsen figures. The iconic science fiction series “Doctor Who” and the worldwide hit car show “Top Gear” were…
The Content Development department at ESPN, which has been headed up by Keith Clinkscales, is being shut down, Multichannel News reports. Clinkscales is exiting the channel to become an independent producer, the story reports. The 20 to 25 positions in…
CBS has bought a project from a contributor to Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Aasif Mandvi is slated to write and star in a project that follows a divorced marriage counselor, the story notes. If…
Donald Trump appeared to passive-aggressively stoke an old feud with comic Rosie O’Donnell by wishing her well with her new talk show, OWN’s "The Rosie Show," while noting the less-than-spectacular ratings for her series premiere, reports AccesssHollywood.com. “I felt badly…
Paul Reubens, the creator of child-man comic icon Pee-wee Herman, will be presented with the Visionary Award at Spike TV’s Scream Awards 2011, reports UPI.com. The awards ceremony, to be held at Universal Studios, will be televised Tuesday, Oct. 18,…
Two new fall shows got good news from their network boss, and a sophomore show on the same network received an order for six more scripts, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. In ABC Chief Paul Lee’s…
A studio chief writes about his friendship and business dealings with legendary Apple founder Steve Jobs in The Hollywood Reporter. In one revealing passage the studio chief, Fox’s Filmed Entertainment co-chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos, tells of the tough negotiations…