The nominees for the 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards were announced Tuesday. Outstanding comedy nods went to Black-ish, House of Lies, Key & Peele, Orange Is the New Black and Real Husbands of Hollywood; drama contenders include Being Mary Jane, Grey’s Anatomy, House of Cards, How to Get Away with Murder and Scandal. Winners will […]
Good news for Howard Stern fans. The SiriusXM radio host is heading back to America’s Got Talent when it returns for its 10th season on NBC. In a statement posted on the show’s Facebook Page, Stern said, “I decided that a life without AGT is not worth living. America needs a caring, compassionate and wise […]
FXX has ordered a seventh and final season of The League. Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions, announced the news, noting that the comedy series will return with its last 13 episodes in the fall of 2015. “Our gang can burn a beach house like Calvin Johnson […]
After pulling its programming from Dish Network on Friday, CBS finally came to a multi-year retransmission deal with the satellite TV company, ending a courtroom battle over Dish’s ad-skipping DVR service AutoHop. Dish has agreed to disable AutoHop within the first week of a CBS show airing. The agreement includes CBS Sports Network and other […]
President Barack Obama sat down with BET Networks for an exclusive interview at the White House to discuss the recent unrest in America. BET’s 106 & Park airs a portion of the interview on Monday, December 8 at 5p. The full in-depth interview airs immediately following at 6p on BET News Presents: A Conversation with […]
Fox 21 and Fox TV Studios have merged. The combined cable entity will be called Fox 21 Television Studios and be led by Bert Salke, who’ll be president of the new division. In a letter sent to industry colleagues from Fox TV Group chairmen and CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman, the pair noted that […]
Cliff Curtis (Gang Related) has snagged the starring role in the new pilot from Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson. The untitled companion series to The Walking Dead explores the onset of the same zombie apocalypse as the hit AMC show, but takes place at a different location. Curtis will play Sean Cabrera, a teacher who […]
Fox and Andy Samberg’s The Lonely Island have agreed on the first three projects for their multi-platform collaboration: The Tyler Zone (about a man who moves to a new town and is surrounded by supernatural occurrences), Home for the Weekend (a mockumentary-style comedy following a celebrity’s return trip to his/her hometown) and Topics With Andre […]
CBS’ 60 Minutes had its best numbers in two years on Sunday. The newsmagazine drew 18.4 million viewers, the most since December 2012, to finish third for the week and make Nielsen’s Top 10 for a sixth straight week its longest in-season streak on the list since December 2011.
George Clooney appears in a spot for ITV’s annual Text Santa appeal, on the set of Downton Abbey. Hugh Bonneville, aka Downton’s Lord Grantham, starred with Clooney in the newlywed A-lister’s The Monuments Men.