U.S. TV network NBC will stream 11 consecutive hours of live content on Super Bowl Sunday free of charge, including the game and halftime show, to raise awareness of its online viewing platforms among the event’s traditionally record audiences.
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CBS and The CW has handed early renewals for the 2015-16 season to some new shows and returning favorites, in a show of confidence and a sign of its improving primetime fortunes.
HBO revealed Thursday that the 10-episode fifth season of “Game of Thrones” will return on April 12. The pay cable made the announcement at the Television Critics Assn. in Pasadena.
Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson and Jean Smart will star in the second chapter of “Fargo,” slated to premiere next fall on FX.
Is the future of cable a “personal subscription service” with a small bundle of television and online video channels delivered to phones, tablets and Internet-connected TV sets?
HBO and IMAX have struck a deal to make “Game of Thrones” the first TV series to grace the theatrical distributors’ big screens.
Teresa Giudice of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” reality television series surrendered on Monday to begin a 15-month prison sentence for fraud and hiding income to support a lavish lifestyle, according to her lawyer’s office and a prison spokesman.
Donna Douglas, who played the ditsy Elly May Clampett on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died at the age of 81, according to a report by CBS affiliate WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, La.
After rolling out 24 new shows in the fall, broadcasters have 17 additional new series lined up to go this winter and spring, with several more waiting in the wings when those don’t catch on.
What would television do without Las Vegas? Probably be a lot less wacky. The city’s TV footprint extends from “Wizard Wars” to “Vegas Rat Rods” and beyond. On a larger scale, the 2014 season also saw the end of such TV classics as “How I Met Your Mother” and “Boardwalk Empire.”
Dustin Diamond, who played Screech on the 1990s TV show “Saved by the Bell,” was charged Friday with stabbing a man during a bar fight on Christmas.
The new year is fast approaching and that means Netflix is switching up its inventory again for 2015.
With the end of USA’s “White Collar” (9 p.m. Thursday), the channel is losing its most consistent series.
“7th Heaven” star Stephen Collins has admitted to molesting three underage girls decades ago.
“Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas” follows that overgrown man-child, voiced by Jim Parsons, and his voyage to New York to find his father.