At 5 a.m. on the morning of Monday, March 9, after many months of planning, NBC Universal at long last unveiled its 24-hour hyper-local newslike cable channel, called New York Nonstop (Channel 161 on Time Warner cable!). Some 12 hours later, Chuck Scarborough, who for decades has been the face of NB...

Lord knows that NBC head Ben Silverman hardly needs another reason to fire another VP, but at least this one's creative: someone's hiring hookers on the corporate card! The report comes courtesy of ABC News, which could only be a more delicious payback if Silverman-insulted ABC head Steve McPherson ...

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E13) Galactica, Frak yeah!Coming again to save the mother-frakkin' day, yeah!Galactica, Frak yeah!Frakkin' is 'bout all we say, yeah!* *With apologies to Trey Parker and Matt Stone This was an excellent episode. While the whole "co...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free If you're are sick of your TV remaking shows and movies every season, don't fret. Your TV has found a solution: remaking the stuff they've already remade. NBC has given the big ol' emerald glo-stick to a remake of the movie Parentho...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Reality-Free Just about all of the major networks have had a hard time branding themselves without accidentally sticking the hot iron in a tender area. CBS, NBC and ABC all had blocks of programming and a stable of shows that set them apart from the others. NBC us...

Though Charlie’s Angels and Big Fish screenwriter John August’s web pilot The Remnants was beloved by fans and NTV Station alike, as of this writing August says the series is more or less dead in the water.  This week, he addressed the outpouring of positive fan response on his blo...

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Jan. 15 NBC dodged questions about its decision to do away with scripted programming at 10 on weeknights to make room for a Jay Leno talk show....

In a case of what can easily be called corporate flag spamming NBC has gotten YouTube to censor the popular Olbermann Watch channel. And as predictable as this move is what's even more predictable is the fact that the video Olbermann Watch was censored for (not to mention plenty of other Olbie video...

Not that the Washington Capitals need an alibi, but is it too much to put this entire three-game funk on the atrocity of NHL all-star balloting? Feeling intense disrespect from fans, unable to rock the vote, much less the red, they have now scored an anemic three goals in nine periods at Verizon Cen...

NBC is launching a female-focused quasi-marketing agency featuring the following people: Maria Bartiromo, Meredith Vieira, and Tori Spelling. Raise your hand if you don't see the problems with this. (Hand down, Tori). They, along with 22 other estimable names, including Ogilvy & Mather Chairman-CEO ...