Even as Netflix struggles with its subscription services, a huge competitor is poised to make its presence felt in the online streaming business is a big way, reports Deadline.com. Retail giant Walmart has integrated VUDU — a service it bought…
The Teen Choice Awards have announced who will host this year’s ceremony, scheduled to be aired Sunday, Aug. 7, on Fox, Deadline.com reports. The host will be actress Kaley Cuoco, a star of CBS’s hit sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."…
A veteran character actor who appeared on "The Sopranos" and was known for his stage work has died, reports The New York Times. Tom Aldredge, who played Carmela’s father on "The Sopranos," was 83. In 1979, when Aldredge was in…
"There will be a major new female addition to Fox’s hit series ‘House’ this fall," writes our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Andreeva continues, "Odette Annable, who co-starred on another Fox series this past season — the midseason comedy ‘Breaking…
After receiving a public relations black eye by paying Casey Anthony $200,000 for photos in 2008, ABC News has decided to get out of the business of paying news subjects involved in exclusive interviews, reports Howard Kurtz at the Daily…
A joke about Amy Winehouse on Oxygen’s reality show "The Glee Project" was deleted during the show’s Sunday night repeat, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. In the episode, "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy teases a contestant, saying, “I’m surprised you didn’t…
"At least 210 local TV stations could go off the air permanently under the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, the National Association of Broadcasters charged Monday," says The Hollywood Reporter. The article continues, "The Broadband Plan — which proposes voluntary incentive…
Anderson Cooper’s new daytime show will look and feel like a well-known talk show of the past, reports the New York Post. That syndicated show is one that pioneered daytime talk, "The Phil Donahue Show," which aired from 1967 until…
It’s a key plot element in television shows such as "Doctor Who" and the forthcoming "Terra Nova" from Fox, but a group of scientists says the premise just won’t work, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Technology blog. That premise…
An impending affiliation switch is behind a federal antitrust lawsuit between two station groups, B&C reports. Nexstar Broadcasting Group has filed the suit against Granite Broadcasting and one of its stations, the story reports. At the heart of the suit,…