As we noted earlier this week, the sad case of Travyon Martin has become a national story. For crime and justice-centric HLN, it would appear to be right in its wheelhouse. Indeed, the Martin case has been discussed on nearly every HLN show, with host Jane Velez-Mitchell sporting a hoodie on her program in solidarity: […]
Read moreOn his show Tuesday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity asked why it would be that President Barack Obama would decline an invitation to come onto the program for an interview, after he has mocked Obama for four years calling him “The Anoited One.” “I mean, I’l tell ya, look…” he continued, “I think there’s […]
Read moreFox News Channel has reprimanded contributor Dick Morris over an auction he participated in to benefit a local Republican organization. Morris was a featured speaker at an event for the Lake County Republicans in Florida recently, and he offered up a personal tour of Fox News headquarters in New York as an auction item. Media […]
Read moreRosie O’Donnell’s talk show — produced at Oprah’s old TV home, Chicago’s Harpo Studios, for Winfrey’s new TV home, the California-based OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network — has been canceled, the cable channel announced Friday. The final new episode, to be taped Tuesday on the eve of O’Donnell’s 50th birthday, is set to run March 30. […]
Read moreOn “The O’Reilly Factor,” last night, host Bill O’Reilly took aim at one of MSNBC’s detractors–the Media Research Center–which has been leading an effort to try and get talent there fired. To be sure, O’Reilly still took jabs at MSNBC, but he also defended the channel from the MRC attacks, saying that issues with content […]
Read moreA Brooklyn woman claims Charlie Rose stiffed her five years ago. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Lucy Bickerton says that she worked 25 hours a week as an unpaid intern for the “Charlie Rose” show over three months in 2007 and that she should be paid. “Unpaid interns are a crucial labor force […]
Read moreRicki Lake’s upcoming talk show is issuing an invitation: Go online and join a production meeting. Beginning Thursday (7 p.m. EDT), “The Ricki Lake Show” will put a planning session live on Facebook once a month. The goal is to let people get a peek at the series’ development and weigh in on it, Lake […]
Read moreBillionaire Carlos Slim’s wireless carrier America Movil SAB is funding an online TV network that will star former CNN talk-show host Larry King. Ora.tv, based in New York, is led by Jon Housman, formerly News Corp.’s president of digital journalism, according to the company’s website. Programming will start later this year, the company said. It […]
Read moreMike Huckabee is expanding his media reach to a radio program scheduled to start airing in April. However, the show is scheduled to be in direct competition with none other than Rush Limbaugh. In a column for The Daily Beast today, David Frum thinks Huckabee’s new show might end up hurting Limbaugh’s numbers, and gave […]
Read moreCNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” is following in the footsteps of its predecessor “Larry King Live,” and having guest-hosts for all of next week while Morgan is in London filming “Life Stories.” Among those filling in for Morgan: Wolf Blitzer, Glee’s Jane Lynch, Ad exec and NBC regular Donny Deutsch, Rosie O’Donnell and Arsenio Hall. Blitzer […]
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