*Tracee Ellis Ross is tired of pretending she likes the show, “Reed Between the Lines.” Ok, that’s not what she said, but she is leaving the terribly scripted so-called BET comedy. Her departure comes shortly after joining the cast of NBC’s fall pilot, “Bad Girls,” a show about women in federal prison. The show wasn’t […]
Anderson Cooper has, at long last, publicly said he is gay. Cooper made the announcement in an email to writer Andrew Sullivan. “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” he wrote. Cooper’s sexuality has long been the subject of […]
Earvin “Magic” Johnson added yet another pillar to his ever-growing business empire on Wednesday evening, officially launching his “Aspire” cable network. Distributed via Comcast, FAVE TV and Time Warner Cable networks, Aspire will feature an array of original programming centered on music, comedy, inspirational shows, documentaries and short films, according to a press release. The […]
CNN and Fox News were left with egg on their faces on Thursday, as they got the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Obama’s health care law wrong — and even managed to make Obama initially think his health care law had been partially overturned. The trouble started early for CNN. Congressional correspondent Kate Boulduan read […]
Time Warner executives are allegedly thinking of potentially replacing the president of CNN Worldwide, the New York Post reported on Friday. CNN has experienced an onslaught of grim news in recent months, hitting record-low ratings among total viewers and in the coveted 25-54 age demographic. In April, the network experienced its overall lowest rated month […]
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/39872 Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week that OWN may have lost a whopping $330 million since it began in 2008. An analyst told the magazine that it was the most “successful failure in television today.” The report follows a steady stream of setbacks for Winfrey, including low ratings, staff firings and the colossal mishap […]
It’s official: the ‘Today’ streak has been broken. For a week, at least, “Good Morning America” was the top morning news show on television. Final Nielsen ratings released Thursday showed that “GMA” beat its NBC rival by 31,000 total viewers last week. That’s the first time the ABC show has won a ratings week since […]
Keith Olbermann told David Letterman on Tuesday that he “screwed up really big” in deciding to join Current TV. It was Olbermann’s first television appearance since his ugly firing from the network on Friday, after a little less than a year there. Since then, the battle between the anchor and his former bosses has played […]
In a bizarre turn of events, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell interviewed an empty chair on his program Monday night, after scheduled guest Craig Sonner reportedly fled from an MSNBC studio in Orlando just moments before the show began. Sonner represents George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Florida resident Trayvon Martin in February. His appearance on O'Donnell's program would have been just the latest in a string of high-profile media interviews over the past several days, as he's attempted to shift the narrative surrounding the case. In previous conversations, Sonner has continually insisted that the shooting was motivated not by race, but was instead a matter of self-defense -- though the attorney has declined to answer several questions about the specifics of his client's defense.
Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch that Fox News was a “destructive force in our society,” according to the blockbuster biography of the late Apple CEO. Poynter was the first to uncover Jobs’ blunt words about the network in Walter Isaacson’s new book. Isaacson writes that, after speaking at a News Corp. retreat, Jobs unloaded on […]
Ready for a channel devoted to nothing but “The Simpsons?” Don’t laugh, it is one idea News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey threw out when speaking Tuesday at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media Communications & Entertainment Conference in Beverly Hills. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/simpsons-channel-fox_n_962782.html Article Courtesy of The Huffington Post
President Obama went head to head with the NFL’s opening day game and won. Nielsen says 31.4 million people watched his 7pm speech while over 27.2 million who tuned in to the NFL opener 90 minutes later. Fox News viewers led the cable networks with 3.4 million viewers, ahead of CNN (1.8 million) and MSNBC […]