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'The View' looking to be next daytime-talk leader
With Oprah Winfrey gone, daytime television is ready for a new monarch.
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'Rescue Me' airs last episode tonight
Ten years have passed since the worst terrorist attack in modern times on U.S. soil. And despite all the predictions of irony ended and innocence lost, there has been just one American TV show that deals directly with the fallout from the twin planes flown into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Factoring children into surprise TV reunions
If a producer could dream up the ideal TV show, it would probably look something like this: a lot of drama, a heroic storyline, a bit of reality, a famous host and a set of characters about to receive the surprise of their lives.
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What will MDA telethon be without Jerry Lewis?
No one would sniff at all the dollars Jerry Lewis raised for muscular dystrophy: a couple of billion during his 45-year reign as host of the MDA telethon.
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'Russian Dolls' stirs up Brooklyn community
A mother is lecturing her 23-year-old daughter about her love life, flailing a kitchen knife above her head for emphasis.
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For the fall TV lineup, it's ladies first
Viewers, it's time to make way for girl power!
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Game show was a big 'Deal' for resident
Pearl Fair didn't get to spend much time onstage on "Let's Make a Deal," but she enjoyed the chance to be on one of her favorite shows.
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Social media more ally than enemy for TV
There is good news for traditional media types: It's not true that social networking is killing traditional news and entertainment forums. As the TV networks have come to admit, social media are more ally than enemy.
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Suicide shakes 'Housewives' franchise
Reality came crashing in on Russell Armstrong. With the second season of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" set to premiere in a few weeks, and a pending lawsuit and divorce, the venture capitalist-turned reality personality hanged himself.
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HDNet's "Dan Rather Reports"
When Dan Rather took a job to create a news program at Mark Cuban's little-seen HDNet, it felt like a television version of a rebound relationship.
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Ben Folds back as judge for 'The Sing-Off'
Musician Ben Folds, a Winston-Salem native, will be back on NBC next month when "The Sing-Off," a competition series for a cappella groups, returns.
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'Breaking Bad' granted fifth and final season
The AMC network and producers of its popular "Breaking Bad" series, about a chemistry teacher gone bad, have agreed on making a fifth and final season of the show.
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Hulu jump-starts its original content business
To jump-start its original content business, Hulu has turned to documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, the industrious redhead whose engaging excitability can turn things like a McDonald's diet or hidden ads in movies into entertaining feature-length documentaries.
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'America's Got Talent' acts — from brilliance to insanity
Summertime is for cutting yourself some slack, whether that means reading potboilers poolside or testing the limits of fried food.
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Gleeks will be gleeful at gobs of 'Glee' material
"Glee" is everywhere.
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Network political shows tussle for viewers
Their relevance perhaps redefined by the partisan chat on 24/7 cable outlets, the Sunday morning political affairs shows still provide a study in network news competition at the highest national level. Here's a survey of the four network political shows.
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Murder brings 'Dateline NBC' to Fayetteville — again
Fayetteville is proving to be fertile territory for "Dateline NBC."
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Insider's scoop from television meetings
LOS ANGELES — The spin has been spun, the Television Critics Association summer meetings have concluded. A few memorable moments:
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What's your take on fall TV expectations?
The fall TV season is more than a month away, and I'm plowing through advance screeners of the shows.
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Networks wrestle with Anthony question
Casey Anthony, acquitted for murdering her daughter Caylee, will likely face a choice when she decides to grant an interview: Should she take the best chance for rehabilitating her image or the best chance for a payday?
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For fall, cable dramas taking steps forward
Cable dramas continue to be the richest source of complex stories, three-dimensional characters and adult (not necessarily raunchy but serious) TV content. Looking toward the 2011-12 season, there's still reason to believe the most challenging work is being done away from the broadcast networks.
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Brown, Lil Wayne, Adele on tap for MTV
Chris Brown and Lil Wayne are returning to the MTV Video Music Awards stage, while Adele will make her first appearance.
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'Biggest Loser' to hold casting call in Charlotte
The TV series "The Biggest Loser" is coming to Charlotte Saturday for a casting call. It's part of a 13-city, cross-country search for new contestants.
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TV drama opens old wounds in Chile
Chilean viewers are staying up late to watch a top-rated TV drama about tortures and disappearances during the country's dictatorship — highly unusual material for a country still wrestling with the legacy of those crimes against humanity.
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'Sunny' star gains weight for sake of satire
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" star Rob McElhenney got fat on purpose and to make a few weighty points.
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