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Nielsen And Kantar Accused Of Fixing TV Ratings For Bribes
Nielsen, the TV ratings company, is being sued by Indian television company NDTV (New Delhi television) for allegedly "consciously, recklessly and intentionally" harming the network by fixing...
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Rihanna leads MTV Video Music Award Nominations–Here's Today's Buzz
Drake and Rihanna lead MTV's Video Music Awards nominations with five apiece. Katy Perry received four nominations while Lady Gaga received a shocking zero. Is Mother Monster slipping? The awards take...
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Vince Vaughn and CBS Developing 'Brady Bunch' Reboot
CBS has given a script commitment to a "Brady Bunch" reboot, with a number of names already attached to the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Vince Vaughn will executive produce with...
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THE DEATH OF TV: Comcast Lost Nearly 400,000 Cable Subscribers In Last Year...
People are pulling the plug on cable television by the hundreds of thousands. Comcast's Q2 2012 earnings show the cable company is relying heavily on its high-speed Internet service subscribers....
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NBCUniversal Will Break Even On The Olympics
NBCUniversal is doing better than expected, ahead of both its ratings and financial projections for the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to CEO Steve Burke. "We are off to a very very successful...
View ArticleWATCH: Someone's Missing From Ricky Gervais' New Web Series Promo
Earlier we said comedian Ricky Gervais unveiled plans for a new web series, "Learn English" on his blog. Today, he revealed a promo for the first episode. Though it's Gervais' show, it appears as if...
View ArticleJeff Bader Leaves ABC For NBC: Longtime exec Jeff Bader is taking over a...
Jeff Bader Leaves ABC For NBC: Longtime exec Jeff Bader is taking over a newly created position of president, program planning, strategy and research. Bader was with ABC since 1988. Please follow The...
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW: The Most Memorable Winners & Losers From 'America's Next...
Tyra Banks recently told The New York Post that she almost quit her hit CW show, "America's Next Top Model" (ANTM) due to the amount of stress the show was causing her. “I’ve thought about turning the...
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THE DEATH OF TV: It's Not Just Comcast; DirecTV and Time Warner Cable Lost...
Comcast has some company in the land of cord-cutters. One day after we reported Comcast's Q2 2012 earnings showed a drop in nearly 400,000 television subscribers in the past year, two more cable...
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Guess Who Hasn't Signed On For The New Season Of 'Mad Men'
The fifth season of AMC's "Mad Men" wrapped up June 10. The season finale, appropriately titled "The Phantom," was full of uncertainty and new beginnings (and endings, for one character in...
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CBS Blames Sliding Revenues On 'Frasier,' Amazon And Netflix (CBS, AMZN)
CBS may have reported an eight percent increase in second-quarter profit, beating out estimates compiled by Bloomberg, but that came coupled with a dip in advertising sales and licensing revenue from...
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'Hello Kitty' Creators Suing Mystery Defendant For Character Theft
Sanrio Inc., the acclaimed Japanese corporation behind "Hello Kitty" and "Keroppi," has filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against the unknown defendant(s), "Does 1 through 50." The...
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Sharon Osbourne Accuses NBC Of Discrimination After Network Denies Her Son A Job
Sharon Osbourne, wife of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and "America's Got Talent" judge has left the hit NBC talent show following a heated dispute with the network. Osbourne's son Jack was slated to compete...
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THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT: Cablevision Posts Increase In Hard-Wired Phone...
Last week we reported on the long, slow death of television and how Comcast, DirecTV, and Time Warner Cable had lost thousands of subscribers. During the second quarter, cable providers often...
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Comedy Central Cutting Theater Shooting Joke From Roseanne Roast
Comedian and roaster Jeff Ross showed up to the taping of Comedy Central's Roseanne Barr roast dressed as the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, with two young men wearing nothing but...
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Here's The Real Reason News Corp Wants An Hispanic Channel (NWS)
News Corp., the parent company of Fox, recently announced the launch of MundoFOX, a new Spanish language channel. One potential reason for the move: Hispanics hardly watch mainstream broadcast TV....
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AGE DISCRIMINATION ON TV: 10 Anchors Who Were Replaced By Younger Women
Former Telemundo reporter and anchor Vicky Gutierrez is suing the Spanish-language channel and parent company NBC Universal for age discrimination. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles...
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USC Calls Out Rob Kardashian For Lying About Going To Law School
Well, this is awkward. If Rob Kardashian is going to attend the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, he might want to let them know. The reality TV fixture tweeted Monday that he...
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Here's The Fox News Video That Got Bill O'Reilly And Greta Van Susteren Sued...
Aviva Nash, CEO of Drum Cafe, is suing Fox News, its commentators Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, and network reporter Juliet Huddy for alleged defamation and infliction of emotional distress. The...
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Dish CEO Says Customers Don't Care About AMC Because They Live On 'Farms And...
Dish Network chairman Charles Ergen went off the deep end in his Q2 2012 conference call with Wall Street analysts when he started talking about the contract dispute which has led to AMC being pulled...
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