Broadcasting & Cable News

No Justice Signal Yet on Sinclair-Tribune

May 13, 2018

The Justice Department still has not said whether it is satisfied with Sinclair Broadcast Group's spin-offs and sidecar deals related to its proposed Tribune Media merger. DOJ signaled Friday there would be announcements out of the Civil Rights division, the Criminal division, the Deputy ...

FX Orders ‘Mr Inbetween’ Scripted Series

May 13, 2018

FX has greenlit a new scripted series Mr Inbetween, the network announced Friday. The half-hour drama series stars Scott Ryan as a criminal for hire while portraying the life of a father, ex-husband and best friend, according to FX. Nash Edgerton (Gringo) will direct the six-episode series, which ...

Syfy to End ‘The Expanse’

May 13, 2018

Syfy has decided not to renew its drama series The Expanse for a fourth season, network officials confirmed Friday. The series, based on a series of novels by the same name written by James S.A. Corey (a pen name for two authors, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), will end its run this summer after the ...

TBS Renews ‘The Detour’

May 13, 2018

TBS has renewed its hit comedy series The Detour for a fourth season, the network announced Friday. The series, written and executive-produced by Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, stars Jones, Natalie Zea, Ashley Gerasimovich and Liam Carroll. Season three of The Detour reached more than 25 million ...

AT&T's Stephenson: Cohen Contract Was Serious Misjudgement

May 13, 2018

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says payments to Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen for political consulting services were a mistake and pledged the company will do better. Senior EVP of external and legislative affairs Bob Quinn is exiting the company in the wake of the payment revelations. ...

Google Throws in With the Streaming Video Alliance

May 13, 2018

The Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), a group formed in late 2014 to establish specs and best practices for video streaming, has added some heft to the cause with the addition of Google. Google, a streaming giant via way of YouTube and its relatively new YouTube TV service, was named as a new member ...

Fox Brings Back ‘Last Man Standing’

May 13, 2018

Comedy Last Man Standing will be on Fox for the 2018-2019 season. Tim Allen stars. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the series also stars Nancy Travis, Jonathan Adams, Amanda Fuller, Christoph Sanders and Jordan Masterson. The show aired for six season on ABC before wrapping last year. ...

NBC Cancels ‘The Brave’ and ‘Taken’

May 13, 2018

Military drama The Brave and kidnap drama Taken will not return on NBC. Airing Mondays at 10, The Brave debuted in September and was about an elite covert operations squad. Anne Heche was in the cast, along with Mike Vogel, Tate Ellington and Demetrius Grosse. Dean Georgaris created the show, one ...

Ansin: WSVN-TV Will Thrive Despite Fox Fla. Station Buy

May 13, 2018

Ed Ansin, whose Sunbeam Television owns WSVN-TV in Miami, said he expects it to remain successful even if Fox moves the affiliation to a station it has agreed to acquire. Earlier this week, Fox said it would acquire seven stations from Sinclair Broadcast Group for about $910 million. One of the ...