Former THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS actress Stacy Haiduk to guest star in ABC Family's TWISTEDHaiduk will play Marilyn Rossi, a tough but attractive investigator at a private security firm, who is hired by the mayor to help with the investigation of Regina's murder. Her character is all business and has more than a few secrets. She will appear in two episodes.
Ray Romano To Return To PARENTHOOD
Romano has closed a deal to return to the quirky NBC dramedy next season, reprising his character as Sarah’s (Lauren Graham) boss/paramour Hank Rizzoli.
Former ONE LIFE TO LIVE actress Renée Elise Goldsberry to Lead "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" at Encores!
Goldsberry will star in the final Encores! Off-Center presentation of the 2013 season, playing for five performances, July 24 - 27.
AS THE WORLD TURNS alum Jesse Lee Soffer Joins NBC’s CHICAGO PD As Regular, Gets Arc On CHICAGO FIRE
Soffer will play a young police detective who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.
Is Television a Human Right?
Former Georgian prime minister Vano Merabishvili is currently in detention facing charges including abuse of office during his years as a member of President Mikheil Saakashvili's powerful inner circle - this week staged a brisk, two-day hunger strike to demand a TV be installed in his cell.
Prison officials said on June 19 that Merabishvili, a once-feared interior minister and secretary-general of Saakashvili's United National Movement, had resumed eating after receiving assurances he would receive a television in the coming days.
Prisons Minister Sozar Subari said authorities must now determine how to install a device in Merabishvili's cell in Tbilisi's Matrosov prison, which is currently TV-free.
THE SOPRANOS Sales Soar on Amazon, iTunes After James Gandolfini Death
Amazon lists the 30-disc DVD box set of the complete series of THE SOPRANOS as the No. 1 best-selling drama in the site’s DVD section.
In addition, the box set, priced at $124.99, is currently the second most-popular overall total TV and movie title, trailing only a single $1.99 episode of MAD MEN, the penultimate seg of the current season 6 that aired this past Sunday. Ten days ago, the DVD box set ranked No. 936 on Amazon’s movies and TV best-seller list.
THE GOOD WIFE Promotes Zach Grenier to Series Regular for Season 5
Grenier has been made a series regular for the show’s upcoming fifth season, the question looms whether he’ll turn his vitriol toward Alicia and Cary as they file for (professional) divorce from Lockhart-Gardner and start their own firm.
Traditional TV is unstoppable. Can YouTube ever beat it?
Whatever else has happened in American life, TV just kept doing better. If you look at a chart of household TV viewing from 1950 to 2009, it’s a straight upward arrow. In the last couple years, live TV-viewing has begun to dip just slightly, but the decline has been offset by a rise in time-shifted viewing. Overall, despite every technology that has come along to usurp or disrupt it, we watch about as much TV in 2013 as we’ve ever watched.
YouTube has certain natural advantages in its battle to win the TV wars, the most conspicuous of which are scope and scale. The company aims to deliver its videos to every device, from PCs to TVs to phones, in any corner of the world. In May, it announced that people now watch about 6 billion hours of YouTube videos per month, a 50 percent increase over last year. That’s more than any other video site on the planet—Netflix, for instance, serves about 1 billion hours a month. But it’s far less time than we spend with traditional TV. We watch as much YouTube in a month as we watch TV in a day.
Why Do Americans Have the Worst DVRs?
This hypothetical DVR utopia actually exists, and a lot of people are living in it. The bad news for me and my fellow Americans: The United States is trapped in the bowels of DVR hell, and we’re not going to escape any time soon.
Now, let us take a journey to this magical land where DVRs work as they should. Our tour guide is Raj Patel, the chief solutions architect for the United Kingdom’s Freesat, a partnership between ITV and the BBC that provides free satellite TV service to 1.7 million homes. Patel explains that broadcasters supply Freesat and certain other international television providers with what’s called “present and following” information—that is, the identity of the program that’s airing right now and the one that’s scheduled to air next. Even if a program (like, say, a sporting event) is supposed to end at 10:30 p.m., the broadcaster will not change that present and following data until the game is actually over. A customer’s DVR, in turn, will not stop recording until it’s been signaled that the present and following information has changed. This feature is called “accurate recording,” and that’s exactly what it is.
Fact and fiction collide as GLEE actor Matthew Morrison (aka Mr Schue) plans to open performing arts schools for talented kids
The GLEE actor is hoping to launch his own international network of performing arts schools to combat cuts in music provision which he fears could prevent a generation of youngsters from achieving their potential.
Michelle Keegan CORONATION STREET Exit Is 'Great', Says Co-Star
Since Michelle Keegan announced she was ITV soap CORONATION STREET in April, many questioned whether TV's sexiest soap star was making a mistake, but her co-star Jack P. Shepherd thinks the actress is making a 'great' decision.
Shepherd, who plays bad boy-turned-hairdresser-turned-bad-boy again David Platt, thinks that the actress has the potential to crack America.
Speaking to new! magazine he said: "I think it's a great move for her [Michelle] - she's got a face for films."
EASTENDERS welcomes Carl, yet another menacing villain and its first new character for, ooh, weeks
When a new character appears or an old one returns, they pop up all over Walford, doing the rounds from the B&B to The Vic, having encounters with so many characters, they immediately take over the show.
Now it’s Carl White, a fairly undistinguished presence in jeans and a gray hoodie who turned up on Thursday pretending to be the plumber.
Awash with soaps in Australia
Marriage and family life go under the microscope as quality dramas adopt a familiar formula.
Viewers Accept First Gay Couple in New Philippine Soap Opera
A new soap opera on GMA-7, MY HUSBAND'S LOVER, one of the largest broadcasting companies in the Philippines, premiered on June 7. The show has beaten competition and earned raves from the international LGBT community.
Egypt broadcasts male-only soap for Ramadan
On the set of COFFEE SHOP, a new Egyptian soap opera to be televised next month, there was a decidedly male presence. The director was male, so too the scriptwriter. The producers were also men. The lighting operator was a man, as were the sound team. Weirder still, all the actors were men. In fact, of the 30-strong cast and crew scurrying around the set, not one was a woman.
It is this that sets COFFEE SHOP apart from the dozens of other soaps that will be aired in Egypt throughout Ramadan, the month-long fast that is also Egypt's busiest and most lucrative TV season. Specially commissioned multi-episode soaps have been enjoyed by families during Ramadan since the 1960s and are often associated with romantic storylines and female stars. Controversially, COFFEE SHOP will have neither. Its cast is male only.
"The basic aim of the series," said Sayed Said, COFFEE SHOP's creator and chief scriptwriter, during a break in filming, "is to show that you can make a good show without depicting naked women."
Y&R's Melissa Claire Egan signs with Gersh
The Gersh Agency (TGA) is a talent and literary agency.
Anna Paquin: We bought 300 copies of the TRUE BLOOD porn parody
It was a wrap party gift for the cast and crew three years ago.
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