CBS gambled by moving "The Big Bang Theory" to Thursday night for a premiere-week showdown with NBC’s returning “Community,” and the gamble paid off. Not only did “Big Bang” crush “Community,” but in the battle of the lead-outs, CBS’s series…
ABC’s Emmy-winning sitcom “Modern Family” had a splashy return Wednesday night, drawing 12.6 million viewers overall and earning a 5.0 preliminary rating in the 18-49 demo to finish as the night’s top show, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. The numbers were the best…
Appearing clean-shaven on David Letterman’s "Late Show" Wednesday, the actor Joaquin Phoenix apologized for his eccentric appearance last year that was actually a bit of performance art, reports David Bauder in the Associated Press. "You’ve interviewed many, many people and…
CBS was right in thinking that the title of "$#*! My Dad Says" would grab attention — from people, but apparently not from some digital video-recorders, which are unable to read the symbols, reports the New York Times. CBS has…
Even though Bryan Masche was arrested on domestic violence charges, WeTV has renewed his family’s reality show, "Raising Sextuplets", for a third season, reports Popeater.com’s Naughty but Nice blog. While cameras didn’t film the incident that led to Masche’s arrest,…
At the time of his death last month, "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Harold Dow was working on an hourlong report about a serial killer, Rodney Alcala, reports the New York Times’ ArtsBeat. On Saturday, after receiving the help of Dow’s…
After Fox’s weak opening night Monday–led by a feeble turnout for the new drama “Lone Star”–the network got some needed good news on the second night of the fall season. Fox’s second-season premiere of “Glee” surged in the ratings, up…
NBC had to be pleased with the numbers for the premiere of its centerpiece freshman show “The Event,” and the network plans to do everything possible to keep up momentum for the series, James Hibberd writes in The Hollywood Reporter….
In the just-finished 2009-2010 network evening news season, when compared with the 2008-2009 season, the evening newscasts from NBC, ABC and CBS, have lost a combined 739,000 viewers reports TVNewser.com. Of that number, 338,000 of them were viewers between the ages of 25…
Bill Maher wants U.S. Senate hopeful Christine O’Donnell to appear on his current HBO show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," and is threatening to release more television clips of her from his old show, "Politcally Incorrect," until she comes back…