LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC could be doomed unless it makes radical changes, the head of its governing trust said on Sunday, after its director general quit to take the blame for the airing of false child sex abuse allegations against a former politician.... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned on Saturday, just two months into the job, after the state-funded broadcaster put out a program denounced by the corporation’s chairman as shoddy journalism. The BBC, reeling from revelations th... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned on Saturday, just two months into the job, after failing to get to grips with a child sex abuse scandal that has thrown the 90-year-old state-funded broadcaster into turmoil. Entwistle has faced... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s public broadcaster, reeling from revelations that one of its former stars was a pedophile, was struggling to contain damage on Saturday after a flagship news program aired a mistaken allegation that an ex-politician sexually abused... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Text messages sent by the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers to Prime Minister David Cameron, published on Sunday, have further revealed their close personal relationship. Rebekah Brooks, who is awaiting trial on charges rela... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co agreed to buy filmmaker George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd and its “Star Wars” franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new film in the series in 2015. The deal u... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British police investigating alleged sexual abuse by one of the BBC’s most celebrated TV stars said on Thursday some 300 victims had come forward and they were preparing to make arrests in a scandal that has thrown the broadcaster into disar... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The number of American TV viewers who watched the last debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fell sharply on a night when football and baseball competed with politics for eyeballs. Final Nielse... More »
(Reuters) – The erupting scandal at Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, over allegations of sexual abuse involving late TV host Jimmy Savile is leading to awkward questions for the New York Times Co’s incoming chief executive, Mark Thompson. The BBC is faci... More »
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Tom Brokaw, the Emmy Award winning former “NBC Nightly News” anchor, spent part of Thursday undergoing a battery of tests at a Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital after becoming lightheaded from a sleeping aid, the network... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co quarterly earnings rose 31 percent, exceeding Wall Street expectations, lifted by higher spending at theme parks and the blockbuster “The Avengers” superhero movie. The media and theme park company reported on Tuesday ear... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Stars of the hit ABC comedy “Modern Family” agreed to new contracts on Friday, ending a dispute that erupted in public just as the show prepared to start work on a fourth season. Show creator Steve Levitan said the six adult cast member... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The top programming executive for ABC primetime television said he expects the network’s hit comedy “Modern Family” to debut on schedule in September, despite a current dispute over salaries with several of the show’s top stars. “Modern... More »
(Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp said it had promoted Peter Rice to chairman and chief executive of its Fox Networks Group in the first step of an expected executive shake-up ahead of the company’s split into two separate entertainment and news companies... More »
SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) – Barry Diller, the consummate Hollywood dealmaker who revamped the TV business in the 1980s, is back in the media spotlight after a federal judge threw out an injunction against Aereo, the online TV service he backs. Broadcasters i... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest is considering a bid to buy Dick Clark Productions, the company founded by the late TV icon and Seacrest’s mentor, people with knowledge of the matter said. Ryan Seacrest Media is among the potential b... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend starting May 25, led by “Men in Black 3” at No. 1, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. 1 (*) MIB 3 ………………………….$70... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is expanding her online empire by teaming up with the Huffington Post for a section dedicated to the chat show host that will engage her audience, the Oprah Winfrey Network said on Wednesday. The Huffington Pos... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The struggling NBC network on Sunday announced 16 new TV shows – seven of them comedies – for the 2012-2013 season, and in a show of confidence said it will broadcast singing contest “The Voice” in the fall as well as the spring. NBC, w... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The film and TV industry has spent $60 billion in New York City over the last decade, and production of feature films and popular shows is at an “all-time high,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday. While financial incentives to lure f... More »
(Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch faces limited risk of losing News Corp’s broadcast permits in America, even amid screaming headlines in Britain that the media mogul is unfit to run a major company. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has the power to deny a ... More »
(Reuters) – Three weeks into its international run, the Universal Studios movie “Battleship” is already a hit, racking up $171 million in overseas ticket sales. And that’s before it launches in the United States, where it is expected to be a summer blockbuster... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream,” one of the world’s most recognizable works of art, sold for $120 million at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. Sotheby’s Impression... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Media watchdog the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation brought out some big names in Hollywood over the weekend including American sweetheart Betty White to honor movies, TV shows and performers. At the annual GLAAD Media Awards o... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rich Ross resigned under pressure as chairman of Walt Disney Co’s movie studio after a less than three-year run that included the release of “John Carter,” one of the biggest flops in recent Hollywood history. Ross, named to the job in ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Nicki Minaj shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with her sophomore album “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” usurping the crown from Madonna, who suffered the biggest second week sales drop in chart ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – DreamWorks Studios, the film company headed by director Steven Spielberg, will get around $200 million from its partner Reliance Entertainment to continue making films, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction. The financ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The green slime flowed so much that even first lady Michelle Obama could not escape it at the Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday where singers Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift came away big winners. The program is an annual stop for Hollywoo... More »
(Reuters) – Current TV said on Friday it fired star news anchor Keith Olbermann after one year with the progressive public affairs network, accusing him of breaching his contract and trying to sabotage the TV channel. But Olbermann, in a series of Twitter post... More »
