With Bill Weir hosting CNN Tonight on Friday, averaged its second-lowest ratings during the 9 p.m. hour in both the 25-54 demo and total viewers in nearly 15 years. The CNN show had 48K viewers in the demo and 226K total, according to Nielsen.
There are a burgeoning number of ways to receive content streamed from the internet to your living room TV, and no single provider is proving significantly dominant.
"Saturday Night Live" writer/actress Leslie Jones is facing backlash after joking on "Weekend Update" that she would have been the “number one slave draft pick” due to her stature.
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J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery –- a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias — back to its magical beginnings.
Last week, an obscure but potentially internet-transforming document was leaked from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. It revealed that government regulators are considering rules that would give big companies a chance to make their online
We’re used to seeing Stephen Colbert in-character on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, looking supremely confident as a right-wing master of the media universe.
TV and movie audiences have known for years that streaming services provide an on-demand viewing experience, but a new report has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Hulu and Netflix are now a legitimate threat for traditional cable companies.
So after a maybe-it-will-happen-maybe-it-won’t dance that made the possibility of a Battlestar Galactica film feel like the most frustrating kind of vaporware, it now looks like there might finally be a film version of the beloved space epic. Yay?
At first blush it sounds like something out of a Cheech & Chong movie, but in fact it’s a serious effort. Fusion, the startup cabler run by ABC News and Univision, has named journalist Ryan Nerz as its chief cannabis correspondent.
When tiny startups like Ouya or GameStick tell you that they’re planning to take on the entrenched industry behemoths in the TV gaming space, it’s difficult to see their quests as being anything but Quixotic.
• http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Lesley Goldbe
The sibling networks will serve as the broadcast home for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a $30 million competition for privately funded teams to land an unmanned craft on the moon.
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
“I’m suggesting Mr. President, there’s a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday…”—Col. Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey, Seven Days in May (1964)[1]
The star of the television show “Judge Joe Brown” has been arrested and charged with five counts of contempt of court in Tennessee, court officials in Memphis said Monday.