Why Live Shows Like Neil Patrick Harris’‘Best Time Ever’ Could Be TV’s Newest...
With the fall season soon to kick off, broadcasters are betting big on an old idea — live TV. Programmers hope that live broadcasts will inspire audiences increasingly inclined toward DVR and digital...
View ArticleCBS Chief Nina Tassler to Step Down, Glenn Geller Upped to President
Nina Tassler will step down from her role as CBS Entertainment chairman at the end of the year, the network announced Tuesday. Current programming chief Glenn Geller has been tapped to succeed her,...
View ArticleCBS Chief Nina Tassler Talks About Her Next Move
Nina Tassler has been CBS’ top-ranking entertainment executive for 11 years. That tenure, the network announced Tuesday, will end at the close of this year, when Tassler steps down as chairman of CBS...
View ArticleGay Couple ‘Hart to Hart’ Revival in the Works at NBC
NBC is developing a revival of the series “Hart to Hart” what would recast the central Robert Wagner-Stefanie Powers characters from the original as a gay couple. Sony Pictures Television is set to...
View ArticleCablevision to Be Sold to European Telecom Giant Altice for $17.7 Billion
European telecom company Altice has agreed to buy U.S. cable provider Cablevision for $17.7 billiion, including debt, according to reports. News of the deal was first reported by The New York Times,...
View Article‘Arrow’ Star Stephen Amell Says He Will ‘Go Away for a Bit’ in Video...
“Arrow” star Stephen Amell said Wednesday that he will “go away for a bit” in the wake of controversial comments made on Twitter about Texas teenager Ahmed Mohamed. “Didn’t mean to offend anyone...
View ArticleTheWrap’s Emmy Picks: Who Will Win and Who Should
The Primetime Emmy Awards love repeats, but this year the ceremony may be primed for a shakeup. AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” which won the last two years for Outstanding Drama Series and delivered a combined...
View Article‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Director and ‘Thirtysomething’ Star Peter Horton Renews...
Producer Peter Horton has renewed his first-look deal with Universal Television. Under the deal, Horton will continue to write and produce projects for the studio, as well as direct. Horton co-created...
View ArticleRetro Superheroes, The Muppets and Bradley Cooper Spin-Off: Why Old Is the...
A previous version of this story first appeared in TheWrap Magazine Fall TV issue. FX CEO John Landgraf‘s declaration in August that we live in an era of “too much TV” was the intellectual highlight of...
View Article‘Transparent’ Emmy Winner Jill Soloway Says ‘We Have a Trans Civil Rights...
“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway used her acceptance speech for the best comedy direction Emmy to call for transgender equality. “We don’t have a trans tipping point yet, we have a trans civil...
View ArticleAva DuVernay Directs Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige in...
Playlists, the new mixtapes. Go ahead ladies! @maryjblige @kerrywashington @TherealTaraji http://t.co/cctGZAhwuP https://t.co/VTnkmeEr4E— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) September 21, 2015 Apple debuted a...
View ArticleFox Entertainment President David Madden on ‘Empire’ Spin-Off, Show He’d...
Shortly after Dana Walden and Gary Newman took over Fox Broadcasting last year — adding the network to their duties as longtime bosses of Fox’s television-studio operations — they tapped David Madden...
View ArticleIs Reality TV Dead or on Break? Networks Vote Genre Off the Island This Season
The Big Four broadcast networks premiered nine new shows this week–seven dramas and two comedies. What they did not premiere was a new unscripted series. In 2014, Fox kicked fall off early with...
View Article7 Biggest Surprising and Unsurprising Takeaways From TV Premiere Week
Friday marks the end of the beginning of the 2015-16 television season. This week, the broadcasters unveiled a large swathe of returning shows and nine new series. Though several fall entries have yet...
View ArticleSAG-AFTRA Boycotts Telemundo’s Latin American Music Awards
SAG-AFTRA notified members Saturday that the union is boycotting the 2015 Latin American Music Awards, scheduled to be broadcast on Telemundo. According to an alert sent to union members, awards-show...
View Article‘Scream Queens’ Scares Up Big Numbers for Fox in Delayed, Digital Viewing
Fox hour-long horror comedy “Scream Queens” premiered Tuesday to soft live-plus-same day ratings but has shown serious growth in delayed and digital viewing in the days since. In Nielsen live-plus-same...
View ArticleRyan Murphy, Fox Chief Dana Walden Tease Possible ‘Scream Queens’ Renewal
Based on big delayed viewing numbers, Fox is feeling bullish about “Scream Queens.” Speaking to TheWrap Sunday, Fox Television Group Chairman and CEO Dana Walden said once Nielsen and multiplatform...
View ArticleTrevor Noah’s Moment of Truth Is Here As New ‘Daily Show’ Dawns
To replace Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show,” Comedy Central chose Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old South African virtually unknown in the United States. If CBS, with its choice of Stephen Colbert to take over...
View Article‘The Daily Show With Trevor Noah’ Review: New Host Enjoys a Smooth Ride
At the end of his first segment as host of “The Daily Show,” Trevor Noah thanked Jon Stewart, the man whose seat he filled, for believing in him. Then he added, “And I’ll make you not look like the...
View Article‘Daily Show With Trevor Noah’ Correspondent Takes on Pope Mania in Bonus...
“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” correspondent Hasan Minhaj is all about Pope Francis in a new bonus segment released by the Comedy Central show Monday night. “Pope Francis dropped in on the U-S-of-A...
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