May 15
Turner to offer online streams of TNT, TBS
NEW YORK - Time Warner's TNT and TBS are joining the parade of networks offering a live linear feed of their channels online for viewers on the go.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
NEW YORK - Time Warner's TNT and TBS are joining the parade of networks offering a live linear feed of their channels online for viewers on the go.
NEW YORK - Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule Wednesday with four new comedies and two dramas.
NEW YORK - Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule Wednesday with four new comedies and two dramas.
CBS' prime-time schedule for the fall:

CBS on Wednesday revealed a few nips and tucks it is planning next season for what is already network television's most successful schedule, including adding a comedy with Robin Williams playing an unorthodox advertising executive with Sarah Michelle Gellar as his daughter.
LOS ANGELES - Can the return of Michael J. Fox, agent Jack Bauer and "Ironside" help vanquish the flesh-eating zombies that are threatening to take a bite out of television broadcasters' fortunes?

The slow, lingering demise of "Smash" has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.
The two major Spanish-language television companies delivered an unusual pitch to advertisers: Our viewers watch our programs live. They don't digitally record them to fast-forward through the commercials.
LOS ANGELES - Bill Hader has become the latest fan favorite to announce his departure from NBC's long-lived "Saturday Night Live."
NEW YORK - Move over, "Dancing With the Stars" - there are some new high-flying heroes in town.

Univision Communications said Tuesday that it is pairing with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on the English-language El Rey television network that is geared to young viewers and scheduled to debut this December.

Some highlights of ABC's moves in its schedule for next season.
NEW YORK - ESPN President John Skipper said Tuesday he isn't too worried about proposed legislation from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would allow consumers to pick what channels they want instead of buying a big package of networks.
ABC's prime-time schedule for the fall:
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for May 6-12. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
With broadcast networks unveiling their new schedules, the television industry is focused on potential ratings hits next season.

ABC is cutting its aging "Dancing With the Stars" back to two hours and one night next season, creating a slot for a new drama series based on the Marvel Comics world that's aimed at expanding the network's audience, its programming chief said Tuesday.

PBS says the fourth season of "Downton Abbey" will begin in January and run for eight weeks.
At nine seasons, "The Office" lasted longer than it should have. Even before Steve Carell's bumbling Michael Scott departed in 2011, NBC's adaptation of a British classic was showing signs of wear and tear.
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful," declares Liberace in the closing minutes of "Behind the Candelabra." The line, borrowed from Mae West, is a fitting description of the late pianist's famously over-the-top aesthetic: In his long-running Las Vegas show, Liberace was known to make his grand entrance via bedazzled Rolls-Royce limousines and for wearing glitzy ensembles like star-spangled hot pants or a sequin-lined, white fox coat with a 16-foot train.