NEW YORK -- The Sci Fi Channel is now Syfy. The rebranding -- same pronunciation, new spelling -- marks the NBC Universal network's effort to broad...
Jeff Norman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Bill Maher blasted the Democratic Party for kowtowing to its corporate paymasters, and bemoaned the lack of real liberals on ballots and television.
Washington Post | Robin Givhan | Posted 07.20.2009 | Style
Time and again, observers grasp for adjectives to describe Obama's combination of professional accomplishment and soccer-mom maternalism. It's no wond...
Jason Mannino | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living
Television is often touted as one of the banes of our culture, but it can also be of great service to the empowerment and uplifting of society. To hon...
USA Today | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
At least 30% of viewers forLost, The Office and Heroes were procrastinators, watching either later that night or up to seven days after the programs f...
Barbara Ficarra | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment
I'm delighted to see that the new TV series HawthoRNe avoids most of the media stereotypes of nursing, portraying a nurse character that is strong, determined, smart and assertive.
Eric Deggans | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
I find it disturbing to see that the nation's first stab at real health care reform in more than a dozen years may start off with a cynical partnership between a politician and a network news division.
Henry Blodget | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
The traditional TV industry -- cable companies, networks, and broadcasters -- is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: in denial.
Ryan Haydon and Stefani Piermattei | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment
The ride was over all to quickly, but boy oh boy, this looks like a humdinger of a finale. Avoid all the table flipping with us at 10 pm ET!
John Lundberg | Posted 07.15.2009 | Living
It boasts the same live audience, the same glitzy stage, the same young hopefuls bearing their souls before a panel of celebrity judges (only this tim...
Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
As if L.A. needed any more reminders of just how much production is leaving town, along comes fresh data to document the grim trend....
Ryan Haydon and Stefani Piermattei | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
I can relate to Ashley, I totally expected to get my dad's 8 year-old Grand Am when I turned 17.
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
Daytime syndicated talk show "Rachael Ray" has been renewed through the 2011-12 season after the ABC Owned TV Stations inked a deal to pick up the Emm...
New York Times | EDWARD WYATT | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
LOS ANGELES -- Sharon Levy is the first to admit that she is not what anyone would call a girl's girl -- just ask her, for example, about her televisi...
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
Fourteen-year-old chef Greg Grossman has signed a production deal to develop and star in his own reality TV show. Grossman and New York-based Pictu...
Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
A&E Television Networks president and CEO Abbe Raven has been named to run a new company being formed by Disney-ABC TV, Hearst Corporation and NBC Uni...
AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Dubai is synonymous with glitz and excess _ but can the Middle Eastern hotspot handle the likes of Paris Hilton? The fame-loving hei...
AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
NEW YORK — After almost 16 years of marriage, Unita Walburn and her husband had drifted apart. The stress of raising two special needs children ...
Ryan Haydon and Stefani Piermattei | Posted 07.03.2009 | Entertainment
Wow, Danielle is from some other planet -- and I want to visit!
TIME | Alice Park | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
As most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence sug...
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
Bravo Media is changing its look and its tagline. The cable network and its digital platforms are undergoing a pop art-inspired redesign, and Bravo...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — NBC set a low-water mark of historic proportions for TV viewership last week. The network averaged 4.4 million prime-time viewers, a...
Susan Whiting | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media
News coverage of the media industry of late suggests that audiences are too consumed by their iPhones and the Internet to watch television. There's just one problem with this — it's wrong.
Ed Martin | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment
A network's Upfront presentation is the one opportunity it has during the year to put everything out there and demonstrate to advertisers why they should want to buy time on its schedule.
Ryan Haydon and Stefani Piermattei | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment
Judging by the title, this week's episode will have an extra large serving of beef. Join us at 10 pm ET for all the drama.
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media