• The End of the 2-Minute Commercial Break

    TV viewers will start to see shorter — but more — segments and appearances by the shows’ stars in ads.

    The End of the 2-Minute Commercial Break
  • Mr. Genachowski Goes to Congress

    The country’s digital TV transition now history, Congress Tuesday gets its first view of what else President Obama could have coming from the Federal Communications Commission. The Senate Commerce Committee is slated to hold a confirmation hearing on the president’s nomination of his close friend and campaign adviser Julius Genachowski as the new FCC chairman,…

  • Exec VP of Programming Departs Hallmark

    David Kenin leaves only a month after Hallmark’s president-CEO Henry Schleiff stepped down.

  • Mike Tyson Explains Himself

    It’s hard to resist the primeval lure of “Tyson,” a documentary in which Mike Tyson candidly revisits his exclamation point of a life. Why are we so drawn to the former prizefighter, despite ourselves? Maybe it’s because Tyson’s devastation of his opponents was so disconcertingly beautiful. It gave us the same troubling fascination we have…

  • Natasha Richardson Buried Near New York Home

    Latest news: Actress laid to rest close to where she lived with Liam Neeson and her two sons in Millbrook.

  • Make a Sex Tape, Be a Star!

    So, I’m sitting here in my swanky Hollywood Condo, in beautiful downtown Tinseltown, reading a story in TheWrap on some viral video guy hardly anybody knows who’s getting better ratings then NBC’s Prime-time Lineup (of course it’s not a huge undertaking NBC’s Ratings pretty much suck) … and I literally hurl my morning bran muffin!  …

  • Will the Web Kill Comedy?

    So, I’m sitting here in my swanky Hollywood condo, in beautiful downtown Tinseltown, reading a story in TheWrap on some viral video guy hardly anybody knows who’s getting better ratings then NBC’s prime time lineup (of course that’s not a huge undertaking, since NBC’s ratings pretty much suck) …and I literally hurl my morning bran…