Nikki Finke

Of course, Isaiah Washington acted like a horse's ass. But it's amazing to me that he has been fired from Grey's Anatomy by its producers at ABC Television Studios when the network itself doesn't have clean hands on the issue of storylines about homosexuality. I'll go ahead and make the...

I have more information since my Friday posting which roiled NBC execs at 30 Rock and in Burbank. The latest is NBC Entertainment Prez Kevin Reilly has been fired. Yes, it's finally over for him. And everything's been resolved regarding that new contract Jeff Zucker gave him back in...

Urgent news from 30 Rock is that a big NBC shake-up is underway in the entertainment division, I'm told, after the network again finishes the season in 4th place behind CBS, ABC and Fox. I can report that NBC has definitely offered Kevin Reilly's job to Ben Silverman (don't be...

Originally posted at Deadline Hollywood Daily.

It's no longer Grazergate; it's now Rumsfeldgate at the Los Angeles Times. I'm told that Donald Rumsfeld was asked to guest-edit the newspaper's "Current" opinion section which appears on Sundays. The ex-Defense Secretary is a long-time personal and professional...

I'm told that arrangements have been made for Michael Richards to go on Letterman by remote feed, organized with help from Jerry Seinfeld.

In my opinion, the real news behind Seinfeld's Michael Richards spewing "n"-word racial epithets after being heckled during his Friday night stand-up routine at the Laugh Factory...

There are many inexplicable facets to this huge political controversy over ABC's The Path To 9/11 mini-series. But in my view the most bewildering is the whereabouts of Disney's nonexecutive chairman George Mitchell. He's long been known as the ultimate Compromise Broker, which is what this ruckus needs. But he's...

My latest LA Weekly column, Savage TV, asks the question: Are the contestants turned into psychos, or are they psychos waiting to happen? Reality TV is turning into Savage TV. First freak shows. Then, over the weekend, freak accidents. Now it's freakin' mayhem. Examined within the context of "Crocodile...

If there's suddenly a litmus test for insanity to be administered by the owners of Hollywood movie studios, then start with the executive suites. That's my reaction to the are-you-shitting-me pronouncement by Viacom Inc. chairman Sumner Redstone today that his Paramount Pictures is terminating its 14-year relationship with Tom "Crazy"...

Not since Dawn Steel learned she was ousted as president of production while on maternity leave from Paramount has a top woman movie executive found out this brutally she'd been axed in Hollywood. Even years later, when I sat down to interview her, Dawn still acknowledged that moment was like...