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 Two executives from NBC told the Associated Press that Lipstick Jungle and My Own Worst Enemy will be kicked off the channel. Christian Slater and Brooke Shields have just passed on the failure list of actors as their most recent projects will be stopped from airing. The shows are the youngest NBC’s projects and apparently, they both...
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 Mr. Big finally walks out of Detective Mike Logan’s shoes.
Chris Noth, the controversial Mr. Big from “Sex And The
City”, is leaving the other television series that made him famous, “Law &
Order”, after only three seasons.
Series creator Dick Wolf said that Jeff Goldblum, the actor
that took...
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 It’s obvious that Britney Spears is on her way for a better
life. Her first cameo dragged 3 million viewers more than the show was used to.
Her success led to a second collaboration between the troubled pop singer and the
“How I Met You Mother” crew. The news of her reprising her role as a doctor’s receptionist
made fans wonder...
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 Actress Moon Bloodgood is reportedly in final talks for a
female lead in McG’s “Terminator Salvation: The Future begins.” After signing
the contract, she will play the role of a veteran member of John Conner’s
resistance. Her partners in the movie will be Christian Bale, Sam Worthington
and Anton Yelchin, according to The Hollywood...
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 It appears that “Deadwood’s” Ian McShane is returning to
television as star of NBC’s U.S.
drama pilot “Kings,” the Hollywood Reporter claims. NBC is planning to announce
series pickups for “Kings,” a remake of “Knight Rider,” “The Philanthropist”
and the...
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 Bad luck in love can be cured in Rome!
“When in Rome”
is the romantic story of a young American girl (played by Kristen Bell) who has
had a lot of misfortunes in her love life. But things might change for Beth.
The protagonist has flourishing career as a successful Gotham real estate agent, but a lousy fortune in love.
Beth...
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 The Golden Globes Awards were announced on Sunday in a show format that was never before used, as the more than three hours glamorous ceremony was replaced by a televised press conference that lasted half an hour, during which television presenters announced the winners.Without any presentation of the prizes and no speeches made, the...
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 The press conference that is scheduled to take place on Sunday in order to announce the winners of the Golden Globes has been opened to all media, according to the New York Times on Saturday.Since it will clearly have a lot of press coverage, the event hosted by Hollywood's Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles is expected to have...
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 The eight-minute “webisodes” of “Quarterlife” that
had the internet premiere on November 11 will become hourly NBC episodes
starting from next year.
NBC Universal announced the deal on Friday, promising to air
the series that were launched on the social networking site MySpace early in
2008, denying that the company’s decision...
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 Thursday nights will surely be enlightened by the witty
jokes of the new episodes of the series ‘30 Rock’, or, to put it in other
words, ‘30 Rocks’ rocks Thursday nights starting 8:30, on NBC.
The second season of
Tine Fey-created series not only that come packed with an Emmy for the last
year’s Outstanding Comedy Series, but...
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 The "Veronica Mars" hottie just signed on to star in a multi episode arc of the upcoming season of NBC’s hit show, "Heroes."With a new film under the belt "Apatow's Forgetting Sarah Marshall," Kristen Bell’s demand increased and before "Heroes," she was sought to play in ABC’s island drama...
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 Adam Sandler’s latest movie, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," charmed $34.8 million from moviegoers in its first weekend in theaters overtaking the fifth "Harry Potter” film which slipped on the second spot, according to studio estimates on Sunday.According to reports, Sandler’s previous movies "Anger...
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NBC’s schedule in the 2007-2008 season will feature five new dramas, including Bionic Woman. Long-running Law & Order will also return for its 18th season, while spin-off Law & Order: SVU has already received a season renewal earlier in the year. The other spin-off, Law & Order: Criminal Intent will move from NBC to USA for...
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Democrats increased their control of Congress in US elections Tuesday, picking up significant gains in the Senate and House of Representatives by capitalizing on a backlash against Republicans and President George W Bush.
The Democrats won three Senate seats vacated by retiring Republicans in Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado, while...
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As Chicago braced for a throng of 1 million people at a public park in anticipation of Democrat Barack Obama's victory Tuesday, Republicans Monday were wishing them bad weather and a cliff-hanger election.
"I hope the million or so people who are planning to gather in Chicago have a long, cold night," quipped Mitt Romney,...
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 Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee managed to gather 33.5 million people in front of their TVs on Wednesday night. His ad for the presidential campaign was the most-watched telecast in the U.S. prime time and made an “American Idol” size audience. The 30-minute ad consisted of a speech of Obama who talked about his plans...
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A city’s police commissioner said on Wednesday that the police have taken into custody a man suspected of attacking a passenger who was dozing at the subway, with the hammer, while other riders didn’t do anything to stop him. Thomas Scantling, 26, was charged with attempted murder and related charges of aggravated assaults.The man from...
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 John McCain, 72, is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and a presumptive nominee in the 2008 presidential election for the Republican Party. "I'm not running for President to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things," McCain said when he announced his...
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Ted Key, the magazine cartoonist who created maid Hazel in
the 1940s, died. He was 95. Key was diagnosed with bladder cancer in late 2006
and suffered a stroke in September. He died Saturday at his home in Tredyffrin Township, Pa.,
his son Peter said, according to the Associated Press.
The bossy yet lovable maid “Hazel” was...
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 The tragedy of loosing his wife and the mother of his two
children gives birth to an even deeper pain for Nathan Lee whenever he thinks
that Denise Lee could have been saved if the 911 call center workers would have
done their job properly. Nathan thinks that the 911 call center acted with
negligence. As a result, he and his...
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 Jack Klugman, 85, the actor who played a medical examiner on
“Quincy, M.E.,”
sued NBC Universal on Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Mr. Klugman said the network has reported to him that at the
end of the fiscal year 2006, “Quincy
M.E.” had accumulated over $66
million in net losses. He and...
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 Rudolph W. Giuliani is going to drop out of the presidential
race after occupying a disappointing third place in Florida, finishing well
behind John McCain and Mitt Romney, reports said Wednesday.
Media reports revealed that Giuliani will abandon his
presidential bid and throw his support behind fellow Republican McCain.
NBC...
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 Senator John McCain claimed an important victory in the race
for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, defeating his main
adversary Mitt Romney in the Florida primary ahead of the crucial February 5 “Super
Tuesday.”
With three-fourths of the vote counted, McCain, a senator
from Arizona, led Romney, a former...
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 Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson may be droping out of
the 2008 US election race after a poor showing in the first two
contests of the party's presidential nomination process, media reports
said Wednesday.
Richardson, the governor of New Mexico who had been campaigning on
the back of a wide range of positions held...
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 The political buzz in Washington Friday morning after Democrat Barack
Obama swept the Iowa vote was over his ability to have energized and
motivated young, first-time voters in the midwestern state.
Analysts noted the record turnout in Iowa - more than 200,000 - to
select party candidates for the presidency, and said Obama had...
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 At least 23 people died as a result of heavy ice storms that froze the central United States, US media reported Tuesday.
The storm that glazed the central US Monday and was to last for
several more days turned ice-coated branches into falling, lethal
debris and sent cars spinning on slippery highways.
About 600,000 households...
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 Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, best known as Osama bin Laden, is reportedly alive and hiding in Pakistan. The United States intelligence chief, Mike McConnell, appeared on NBC blaming Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf and his government for allowing al-Qaeda to retreat to the tribal areas near Afghanistan."My view is...
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 Total Request Live announced the show was coming to an end a few months ago. And Sunday was the last day of the show, when hundreds of fans struggled to say goodbye to their favorite TV show from MTV. The host of TRL, Damien Fahey, stated that the end of the show meant the end of an era for many teenagers.He added that many fans of the...
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 The eve of the election brought the highest ratings on Monday during the two-hour special edition of Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008. According to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49. Excluding the Olympics, the network won the first place in ratings on the night before the elections.14.4...
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Many would want to rest after tomorrow’s elections or maybe they just want it to be over as they can think about how to surpass the financial crisis that they are going through. But for people like Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, David Letterman of Anderson Cooper, things aren’t so tragic. They’ve earned so much during the presidential...
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 Is indecent vocabulary blamable or not? Who decides it? The FCC regulators say that during Cher’s speech at a televised awards show, she used indecent words. And it seems that Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue also used indecent words, but when the movie Saving Private Ryan appeared, the same regulators said that the indecent vocabulary was...
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 On Wednesday night the major broadcast networks will air the half-hour campaign ad made for Barack Obama. Still, the ABC won’t do it because their program on Wednesday night is too important. Instead, they have tried to reschedule the campaign ad on a different night. According to ABC, they lost their chance to give time on their...
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 A big drop in entertainment consumers has made NBC to cut its spending across the board. Starting next year, the NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker will lower the amounts to $500 million which means 3% of the $16.7 billion annual budget. The division heads will cut the staff, the promotional expenses and the outside consultants among...
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 “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has brought CBS network 23.5 million people in front of their TV last week. This was the sitcom’s season premiere and it seems that CBS got itself a nice No. 1 place among all the big networks. In addition, this was the prime-time show to attract more than 20 million viewers, as Nielsen Media Research...
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 “Variety” informs that Zack Braff will leave “Scrubs,” produced by ABC Studios, at the end of the upcoming eighth season.The TV medical comedy's production will be upgraded to high-definition for its eighth-season premiere on the American television network.Creator and show runner Bill Lawrence said at the Television Critics Assn. press...
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 Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Amy Jacobson sued
a CBS station in Chicago,
claiming it aired a videotape of her in bathing attire at the home of a
potential news source, whose estranged wife Lisa has been missing since April
2007.
Jacobson claims the CBS station WBBM-TV
broadcast the tape “with the sole motive of boosting its...
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 British rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his famous family are
coming back on U.S. television in a new prime-variety show which they will host
for the Fox network.
Although an exact date has not been decided on yet, a
spokesman for the network said on Monday that the show, which will include
musical performances as well as comedy...
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 NBC’s show “The Baby Borrowers” features
five couples aged between 16 and 19; they have to take care for someone else’s
child over the course of three weeks. Although those who vote for the show say
that the reality show may have an influence on the rate of teen pregnancies
because this type of programming may be a lesson for...
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Television channel NBC was brought on trial after a man killed himself. The $100 million lawsuit started by the man’s family ended with an agreement on both parts, as the Associated Press reported.
Louis William Conradt Jr, a suburban Dallas prosecutor, killed himself after he was caught red-handed by the police and the press...
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 American television is testing the American
endurance, the tolerance and taste for Japanese game shows of its viewers. ABC’s
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show” which premiered Tuesday, June 24, performed
well and pulled in 8 million viewers. It was the winner in the competition with
Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” which brought in front of the...
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 Nicole Richie, mother of a five-month-old baby and designer of a line of jewelry, got a guest starring role on the famous NBC comedy “Chuck.”
The former “Simple Life” star will play the role of Special Agent Sarah Walker’s archenemy. They haven’t seen each other for ten years, since they finished...
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 American television’s source of inspiration
for this summer is Japan,
Japanese game shows such as “Endurance,” “Hole in the Wall,” and “Human Tetris,”
to be more specific.
On Tuesday, ABC is airing premieres of “Wipeout”
and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” with a domestic edition of “Hole in the
Wall” coming this fall on Fox,...
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 NBC’s reality show “America’s Got Talent” has its
Season 3 premiere, USA Today reports. “Talent” was TV’s top-rated show last
summer, averaging 11.5 million viewers!
The quest for 15 minutes of fame managed to attract nearly
200,000 hopeful contestants this season aiming for the $1 million prize.
Last season’s...
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 American television journalist and lawyer, best known for his role as the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Prees” Sunday talk show, Tim Russert collapsed at the offices of WRC-TV, which houses the Washington, D.C. bureau of NBC News where he was the Bureau Chief, while prerecording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” He was...
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 “Celebrity Rehab” dramatizes the real life
experiences of a group of actual celebrities that decide to change their life
and introduce themselves into a drug, alcohol, and addiction treatment program.
The most important motivation is the sincere desire and dream to truly achieve rehabilitation
and recovery.
The movie tells the...
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 “Idol” and “Star” shows move to NBC, with
new plans. After five misplaced seasons on the USA Network, the country crooner
competition moves to a new broadcast network, NBC, for its next season,
starting tonight.
Although there are voices saying that the
show copies “American Idol,” country star John Rich says that the...
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 Three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC will
donate an hour of commercial-free, prime-time television on Sept.5 for a national
show to raise funds for cancer research and treatments.
The broadcast, “Stand Up To Cancer,” will
feature live performances from recording artists as well as movie stars who
will give information about...
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 Longtime New York TV anchor Sue Simmons apologized to
viewers Monday night after dropping an F-bomb during a live news promo on WNBC,
Reuters reports. Sue Simmons has been working at the NBC owned-and-operated
station since 1980.
Simmons had been doing a tease regarding the cost of
groceries when, off camera, she yelled, “What...
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 ABC announced Tuesday it will add one new scripted series in
fall and a new game show, the Spokesman Review reports. David E. Kelley’s new
drama “Life on Mars” is about a police officer transported back to 1973.
ABC is also picking up the canceled NBC comedy “Scrubs” and the
second new series, “Opportunity Knocks,” produced by...
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 Jimmy Fallon appears to be closer to the role of successor for
“Late Night” host Conan O’Brien’s chair on NBC in 2009, sources said. Published
reports showed on Thursday that Fallon has signed, or soon will sign, a deal
with NBC.
O'Brien, whose show airs at 12:35 a.m., is moving into the
11:35 p.m. slot next year after...
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 Former sportsman and double murder acquittee O.J. Simpson
has set a new goal and is doing his best to accomplish it: he is yearning for making
an appearance in the next season of “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Well, that’s a new one. First of all, we weren’t at least
certain that there would be a next season of the NBC’s hit show....
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 No ratings, no broadcast! That’s what the CBS network
thought of when it canceled “The Secret Talents of the Stars” after just one
episode. The series featuring celebrities who try to discover some unknown
talents was dismissed due to the fact that the debut episode on Tuesday drew an
audience of only 4.6 million viewers, according...
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 The popular fashion reality show, “Project Runway,” is
heading for Lifetime Television saying ‘buh-bye!’ to NBC Universal and its
Bravo cable network. The announcement of the departure was made on Monday, the
same day in which NBC Universal filed suit against “Project Runway’s” producer,
The Weinstein Co. in New
York State Supreme...
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 Patricia and Rosanna Arquette will star together on the
April 7 episode of the NBC show “Medium.” This is the first time the sisters have
worked together on a fictional project. It appears that Rosanna guest-stars as
a “femme fatale” in a murder case Patricia’s visionary Allison DuBois character
is investigating.
“This episode...
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 The former “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” co-host, Kathie
Lee Gifford, has decided to step back in the TV business after an 8-year break.
Kathie Lee will co-host the fourth hour of NBC’s morning TV show, “The Today Show,” along
with Hoda Kotb starting next Monday. The 54-year-old Gifford stated on her Web
site: "It's hard to...
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 Robin Williams, the 56-year-old Oscar winner is going to
prove that he is more than just a funny face by playing in one episode of the “Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit” crime drama series hosted by NBC. Pam Golum,
the series’ spokeswoman said in a statement Tuesday that Williams is going to
reveal the story of an engineer, who...
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 “American Idol” is still victorious when it comes to
ratings. According to national estimates from Nielsen, Idol scored first
Wednesday being the highest-watched show at the crucial 9 o’clock hour. The show had 27.13 million
viewers and a 10.3 rating/26 in 18-49, surpassing NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” and
also CBS’ “Big Brother” which...
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 The black low-rated days of Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show
“Tucker” have gone and not because the sun would have risen on its street, but
due to the fact that it was canceled.
This is the last week for the conservative’s one hour show
in the early evenings. “Tucker” will be replaced by politically-oriented “Race
for the White House”...
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 Early this week there have been rumors that famous comedian
Seinfeld would return to television with a new sitcom.
The “New York Post” reported that NBC would shelter a new
production signed by Jerry Seinfeld, in a format similar to “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” aired by HBO. The show is the result of the contribution of Larry
David, a...
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 After playing Detective Ed Green for nine years in the NBC
TV series “Law and Order”, Jesse L. Martin is leaving the show.
Apparently, Martin’s character, Detective Green, will be
written off, and Martin will be replaced with actor Anthony Anderson. Anderson
has appeared before as a cop on an episode of "Law & Order:...
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 CBS’ “Big Brother” drew the fury of Autism United, demanding
a public apology.
“Big Brother” contestant Adam forgot about politically
correctness or even about the mission of his job when he made an insensitive
remark during the last week’s episode of the reality show. The comment
immediately engendered public and organizations’...
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 NBC’s morning audience was unpleasantly flabbergasted when cinematographic
icon Jane Fonda dropped the taboo c-word during “Today” on Thursday.
Fonda was making reference to the famous play “The Vagina
Monologues,” in which she is appearing for a 10th-anniversary performance and
used the forbidden word. Meredith Vieira, “Today”...
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 The drama of the high-career woman in the search of a
pleasant personal life made its debut with the popular TV series “Sex And The
City.”
HBO’s series made career with the theme of powerful women,
addicted to designer shoes, who always find consolation in discussions with
their girlfriends and will remain an authority in this...
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 The major late-night talk shows in the United States were set to return
to TV screens Wednesday night, with striking writers picketing their
studios and vowing to continue their work stoppage into a third month.
Jay Leno's top-rated show will run without a professional script,
but ratings rival David Letterman will have the benefit...
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 We might get lucky when it comes to our humoristic part that
needs to be accomplished, as the Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen
Colbert promise to come back despite the ongoing writers’ strike.
January 7 is the big day the news satirists would return to the
Viacom-owned channel, following the example of NBC hosts Jay Leno...
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 The Hollywood Reporter said on Saturday that Jay Leno, the US talkshow host, is willing to pay his show’s non- writing staff from his own pocket, as they found out they were to be fired, due to the ongoing writer’s strike.The Tonight Show with Jay Leno employees found out on Friday that NBC Universal is laying them off, since the Writers...
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 The names of the 14 stars that are going to take part at the "Celebrity Apprentice" have been made public by NBC on Monday, after almost a month since they were introduced to members of the press, which had to sworn secrecy, in a door closed news conference.Trace Adkins, Nadia Comaneci and Gene Simmons, who already has his own...
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 It looks like 9 p.m. enlarges its offers, besides Fox News’ Hannity
& Colmes and CNN’s Larry King, as MSNBC has plans to replace
its currently low-rated Live with Dan Abrams with a new show that would
bring Rosie O'Donnell back to TV, as the New York Times reported.
After her sudden leave from The View on ABC six months...
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 Out of the four contestants left on the show, Terry Fator impressed the most with his performances and was crowned the winner of “America's Got Talent” second season. Beating up stiff competition from singers Cas Haley and Julienne Irwin and beatbox extraordinaire Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton, Fator bagged the million...
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 This year’s Emmy Awards ceremony will have Ryan Seacrest, the universal television host, including "American Idol," proving his entertainer skills.A last moment’s pick, Seacrest, 32, is "a consummate host of major live broadcast events and a proven talent who always makes it look easy, which makes him the perfect choice...
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 Many familiar names and faces have been nominated for this year’s prestigious Emmy TV Awards, including HBO’s mob drama, "The Sopranos" which nabbed 15 nominations leading the field of television series. Besides the best drama nomination, the series, which ended its run in the US this year after six seasons, also has James...
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 English actor Linus Roache is set to joining "Law & Order" as the new assistant district attorney. Jack McCoy (played by Sam Waterston) "vacates the job to serve as New York district attorney," NBC announced. Born in 1964 in Manchester, Lancashire, Roache is the son of the "Coronation Street" actor...
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 As it was earlier speculated, it appears that fired Ex-NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly is going to end up working for Fox. Different sources say Reilly is in talks to join Fox in a role that is expected to have him sign on as head of programming, replacing Peter Liguori.Liguori is going to either share the position with Reilly...
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 A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on indecency was "arbitrary and capricious." The decision aimed primarily at what is known as "fleeting expletives," or blurted obscenities, on television.The suit was filed by four television networks: Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC,...
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NBC's new entertainment co-chair, Ben Silverman, has assembled a new team to go with the former independent producer's innovative ideas. He chose Katherine Pope as president of NBC's television production studio, NBC Universal Television."I've always admired the work of Katherine Pope," Silverman said to Variety. "She is...
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 Comedy Central just announced new programming for its 2007/2008 season, aiming to keep up with the onslaught of new shows coming up on the major networks. The development plans, announced Tuesday, include pilots from Jamie Tarses and former "Saturday Night Live" head writer T. Sean Shannon.Jamie Tarses, the daughter of...
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 The co-anchor of Dateline NBC, Stone Stockton Phillips, was booted from the show as NBC did not renew his contract. The move is thought to be part of the NBC 2.0 cost cutting initiative. Earlier this spring, the network didn't renew the contract of "Nightly News" weekend anchor John Seigenthaler."It's been a wonderful 15...
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Russian bombers carried out more airstrikes around Georgia's capital Tbilisi on Monday, while US President George W Bush condemned the action as a "disproportionate response" to the fighting in South Ossetia.
Explosions were heard overnight in the capital Tbilisi as Russian planes attacked an air traffic control terminal and...
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