An actress who danced with John Travolta in the 1978 movie “Grease” has died due to complications from cancer, TMZ.com reports. Annette Charles, best known for her role as Cha Cha DiGregorio in “Grease,” was 63. Charles died Wednesday night…
Steve Carell, fresh off his successful run as the boss on NBC’s “The Office,” has his next project lined up — and this time it might include cuss words. That’s because the project is headed for pay cable, with Showtime…
"Fox has greenlighted ‘Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey,’ a 13-part docu-series from ‘Family Guy’ creator [Seth] MacFarlane and the late [Carl] Sagan’s original collaborators — his widow, writer/producer Ann Druyan, and astrophysicist Steven Soter," writes Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. According to the article,…
Comcast has sued DirecTV over what the cable giant claims are misleading ads for the satellite-TV company’s NFL Sunday Ticket package, reports the New York Post. The ads tout DirecTV’s "free" NFL Sunday Ticket package, which Comcast alleges in its…
Showtime’s presentation Friday at the Television Critics Association press tour included a number of key programming announcements, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pay-cable network announced that the reality soap "Gigolos" has been renewed for a second season. In addition,…
Mega-marketer Pepsi’s ongoing cola war with Coke will soon play out on a new front, with the rival soft drinks sponsoring rival TV shows. While Coca-Cola has been a longtime sponsor of “American Idol,” Pepsi has just taken the wraps…
Cable and satellite television companies are concerned about what they see as an alarming trend: TV viewers aren’t buying adult video-on-demand products like they used to, reports The Wall Street Journal. (Please note that the WSJ is behind a paywall…
Producers for the 2012 Academy Awards telecast on ABC were announced Thursday, and along with the predictable — one veteran TV awards show producer — the academy threw in a surprise, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The surprise was the…
What do Sarah Palin, Lady Gaga, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson and Anthony Weiner have in common? They are all on the wish list for the CW’s “H8R,” which pairs regular people with the celebrities they hate, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The…
The ongoing saga of the long-rumored "Sex and the City" prequel has taken a surprise twist, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The project, which has gained momentum in the press after being talked about at the Television…