NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group is the latest to shift to Live+3D. Bravo, E!, Esquire, Oxygen, Sprout, Syfy and USA, will now report ratings based on Live+3 measurements, announced NBCU during TCA, with L+SD data distributed only for live sports/entertainment, specials and event programming. The group’s programming has seen significant lifts from Live+SD to Live+3, including […]
Responding to a report that Rosie Perez is leaving The View after four months, an ABC rep said the co-host is in rehearsals for her Broadway play for the month of January, and “her status with the show has not changed.” The actress signed on for Larry David’s Fish In the Dark before she started […]
ABC picked up a comedy reality series inspired by a segment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Half-hour hidden-camera prank show Repeat After Me, from DeGeneres’s A Very Good Production and Warner Horizon and hosted by Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), slips into the Tuesday-at-8:30p slot on February 17, after midseason comedy Fresh Off the Boat. One […]
Dr. Evil is heading to HBO. SNL alum Mike Myers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) signed a two-year overall deal with the premium cable net that makes him exclusive to HBO in television. “Mike Myers is one of the great comedy minds of this or any other era,” said head of programming Michael Lombardo. […]
Ann Curry is leaving NBC News to become founder of a media startup. Curry had been “anchor-at-large” at Today after her messy exit from the morning show in 2012, making occasional appearances on NBC News shows while under contract with the net. Now, “I want to expand my drive to give voice to the voiceless […]
Nurse Jackie exec producer Clyde Phillips told reporters at TCA that the series, launching its seventh and final season on Sunday, April 12 at 9p, will end in “a graceful and authentic way.” One plan, since scrapped, had been to have All Saints Hospital burn to the ground. So, no happy ending? “I’m a believer […]
It’s a date: Late Show with Stephen Colbert premieres Tuesday, September 8 at 11:35p, from the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC. Nina Tassler offered scant details at TCA: “We’re sitting back and waiting for him to come to us and say what he has in mind,” said the chairman of CBS Entertainment. Colbert’s take? “I […]
CBS newbies NCIS: New Orleans, Madam Secretary and Scorpion all scored renewals for the 2015-16 season. “These freshman dramas have each made a big impact on key nights of the week,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman, CBS Entertainment. “Creatively distinctive, the series are backed by strong showrunners with amazingly talented casts, and have resonated with a […]
Guess no one called Walter White. “We want this show to stand on its own,” said Peter Gould, exec producer of AMC’s upcoming Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul!, at TCA. “Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will not appear in season one.” Added Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantraut, “Their ghosts are there. But this […]
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