No thanks, said Time Warner Inc. to an $80 billion takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. The media company said in a statement Wednesday that accepting the proposal was not in the best interests of Time Warner or its stockholders, since the company’s strategic plan will create more value “and is superior to […]
Cote de Pablo will star in CBS mini-series The Dovekeepers, from exec producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett (The Bible). De Pablo left the net’s NCIS a year ago after eight seasons.
CBS is “willing to talk” to Aereo about doing a paid content deal, said net CEO Les Moonves at Fortune’s annual technology conference Tuesday. Now that the Supreme Court has agreed with broadcasters, ruling that the antenna-based subscription service was violating their copyrights, Moonves said, “The door is still open” to making a deal, but […]
An animated episode of TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland airs Wednesday, July 30 at 10p. The ladies, along with guest star Steven Tyler, go on “an animated romp through pop culture hits.”
It’s official: Dana Walden and Gary Newman are in charge of the Fox broadcast network. The 20th Century Fox TV co-chairmen will oversee a new business unit within Fox Networks Group, Fox Television Group, combining Fox Broadcasting Company and 20th Century Fox Television. They’ll report to Peter Rice, chairman and CEO of FNG. In a […]
NBC is holding Katherine Heigl CIA drama State of Affairs until November because the series has “a bit of DNA from The Blacklist,” NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt tells Cynopsis. “We wanted to move The Blacklist to Thursday after the Super Bowl. It will come off Monday after its fall run, so we thought we’d […]
AMC confirmed series regulars for Better Call Saul, starring Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean. Also onboard: Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad), Rhea Seehorn (House of Lies), Patrick Fabian (Big Love) and Michael Mando (Orphan Black). Breaking Bad spin-off premieres in early 2015.
Christopher Walken (Deerhunter) will play Captain Hook in NBC holiday event Peter Pan Live. “He might just be the first tap-dancing Captain Hook,” said chairman of NBC Entertainment Bob Greenblatt at the TCA press tour Sunday. “I started my career in musicals and it’s wonderful after all this time, at this point in my career, […]
=HBO’s Game of Thrones scored the most primetime Emmy nods on Thursday, with 19. FX’s Fargo got 18 bids and American Horror Story: Coven earned 17; HBO AIDS drama The Normal Heart and the final season of AMC’s Breaking Bad each landed 16. HBO was the network winner with 99 nominations, versus 47 for CBS, […]
Fox announced premiere dates for the fall season, starting with a three-night launch for “social experiment” Utopia on Sunday, September 7, Tuesday, September 9 and Friday, September 12. Also on the way: Hell’s Kitchen: Wednesday, September 10 New Girl and The Mindy Project: Tuesday, September 16 Red Band Society: Wednesday, September 17 Gotham and Sleepy […]
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