A PBS newsmagazine is losing the second of its original co-anchors, reports Elizabeth Jensen in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. Alison Stewart will leave "Need to Know" when the show moves to a half-hour format Sept. 16. She…
Ricky Gervais, who was warned he wouldn’t work in Hollywood again after his controversial turn as the host of the Golden Globes back in January, said he’s been invited back to host the awards ceremony, reports the Guardian newspaper. Gervais…
Beyonce Knowles revealed her pregnancy at MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday, reports MTV.com. Knowles has been married to Jay-Z for three years and had previously said she wanted to start a family by the time she was 30, the…
Apple is ending its 99-cent rentals of television shows, the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog reports. The company has decided to focus instead on sales of TV episodes. The reason? “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV…
Police investigating the death of Michael Showers, whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River this week, say the actor died of drowning, People magazine reports. Showers, who had a small role in HBO’s “Treme,” was reportedly battling anxiety…
Baltimore station WBAL-TV is standing behind a report it aired on the suicide of former Cy Young Award winner and baseball commentator Mike Flanagan, even though discrepancies have surfaced between that report and the police investigation, the Baltimore Sun reports….
One of the stars of “My Name Is Earl” has struck a deal with prosecutors that will enable her to stay out of jail in her DUI case, E! Online reports. Jaime Pressly pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count…
As the East Coast braced this afternoon for Hurricane Irene, TV news outlets mustered their resources to cover the storm’s landfall, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The networks had different approaches to today’s brief speech by President Obama on the…
With Steve Jobs cutting back his role at Apple, the iconic tech guru is all over the media this week. One of the more interesting takes on Jobs appears in The Huffington Post, where columnist James Altucher reveals 10 tidbits…
Two of the people behind “Friday Night Lights” have received a script order from NBC for a new Western series, as the genre continues to build momentum with the TV networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Peter Berg, one of…