Bill Hader, Alec Baldwin
Betty White, Ricky Gervais and the cast of Entourage weren't safe from mockery during Sunday's Emmy awards, but News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch survived the show unscathed after Fox (which is owned by News Corp., natch) censored a joke Alec Baldwin was supposed to...
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Alec Baldwin
Fox says it cut a News Corp. phone-hacking joke by Alec Baldwin from an Emmys skit to avoid being seen as making light of the scandal, Variety reports.
Baldwin was set to play a fictional network television exec in the opening bit, in which he was to make a crack about ...
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Sienna Miller
Sienna Miller is speaking out about her personal life being hacked.
"It's had a huge impact on relationships, friendships, career ... that feeling of violation, it was bad for me," she said on the Today show Thursday.
News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was recently discovered engaging in illegal phone-tapping of celebrities, politicians, and relatives of victims in the London bombings. In July, Murdoch and his son testified that he did not know about the paper's illegal eavesdropping; they closed the paper as a result of the scandal.
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Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake
Our top moments of the week:
14. Best Kiss: On Switched at Birth, Bay and Emmett continue to get closer, despite the hearing barrier between them. When Bay is unable to understand that Emmett is signing, "I like you," Emmett instead tries speaking the international language... and kisses her. Where words fail, kisses succeed.
13. Most Awkward Dance: During an appearance on Today to promote Crazy Stupid Love, Ryan Gosling mentions that he's able to perform the famous lift from Dirty Dancing. Al Roker asks Gosling to prove it, with Roker standing in for Jennifer Grey....
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Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller is suing Fox Broadcasting and Fremantle North America, claiming that he wasn't given "executive producer" credit for the upcoming U.S. version of The X Factor as promised, the Los Angeles Times reports...
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Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch got a big taste of humble pie in front of British Parliament Tuesday when a protestor ran up and threw a pie dish in the media mogul's face, The Associated Press reports.
Murdoch, 80, who was making his first appearance in front of...
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Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien is going to TBS.
"In three months I've gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I'm headed to basic cable," O'Brien said in a statement. "My plan is working perfectly."
A formal announcement is expected at 1 p.m. ET.
Check out photos of Conan through the years
The currently untitled one-hour show, which will be produced in Los Angeles, will debut in November at 11/10c after the World Series, and will ...
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Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien is less than a month away from hitting the road, but whether his TV itinerary brings him to the Fox network remains uncertain.
"To the best of my knowledge, no pressure has...
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Rupert Murdoch
Fox executives are mulling the possibility of a late-night show hosted by Conan O'Brien, but their boss, Rupert Murdoch, says they have to convince him it would be profitable.
"We're giving it a lot of thought and a lot of examination," said Murdoch, head of Fox's parent company, News Corp.
Ratings: 10.3 million tune in for O'Brien's final Tonight Show
Fox owned-and operated TV stations and affiliates (a total of 205, according to The Wall Street Journal) now generally air reruns of syndicated sitcoms from 11 to midnight that make them a lot of money.
So, Murdoch said...
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Question: I was looking through the TV Guide Online feature on old TV listings and saw that in the early 1950s there was a fourth network, the DuMont network. I had never heard of it before, and I was wondering if you could give me a little background on it. What happened to it? And what happened to the shows that aired on it when the network went off the air? Thanks.
Answer: Well, Jane, it's actually a fairly convoluted story, but I'll see if I can give you the simple version. DuMont, the original fourth network, was the creation of electronics whiz Allen B. DuMont, who first made his name manufacturing cathode-ray tubes before moving into radio and then TV sets. His company experimented with TV broadcasting for years before getting its first commercial broadcast license in 1944 for what is now New York's WNYW. Two years later, as NBC started its three-station "East Coast Network," DuMont opened a Washington D.C. station and a rac
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