“Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson will return to work on A&E’s reality show despite his comments about gay immorality, the channel said Friday, reversing its decision to suspend him after facing a backlash and threatened boycott.
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When A&E suspended “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson for disparaging gay people, it may have followed a time-honored TV tradition of quickly silencing a star who speaks his mind. But in doing so it also ruffled the feathers of possibly millions of the show’s fans.
CBS News said Friday that it was misled by a “60 Minutes” source who claimed he was on the on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya when it now turns out there are serious doubts about whether he was.
The health care overhaul might get a Hollywood rewrite. A private foundation is providing a $500,000 grant so TV writers will have information about the Affordable Care Act stitched into plot lines watched by millions.
Lacey Schwimmer, a pro dancer for six seasons on “Dancing With the Stars,” was on a plane grounded Friday at Los Angeles International Airport during the deadly TSA shooting.
An unscripted joke that came from a child during a segment of Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show prompted a network apology. A boy joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt
It’s a measure of how long ago President John F. Kennedy died that, at the time, television was described as a young medium. With the shooting in Dallas, TV grew up.
ABC says Kanye West is appearing on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, less than two weeks after the pair got into what Kimmel called a “rap feud.”
Actor Tom Hanks has said that he has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the metabolic disease.
A skit poking fun at West on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Tuesday provoked an irate call from the rapper about an hour and half before Thursday’s show, Kimmel said in his monologue.
Busy cancer patient Valerie Harper leads a class of 12 amateur hoofers in the upcoming 17th season of “Dancing With the Stars.”
It’s one thing for a business dispute to knock out CBS programming in some three million homes during rerun season. Football season is another matter entirely, and there’s little immediate cause for optimism.
The cause of “Glee” actor Cory Monteith’s death remained unclear Monday, and authorities in Canada said it could take several days before toxicology test results are in.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series “Glee” but was beset by addiction struggles so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be alive, was found dead in a hotel room, police said. He was 31.
Teenage female characters are sexual fodder for broadcast network TV series, especially comedies, according to an advocacy group’s new study.
