On Wednesday's evening news, NBC released a bombshell story on the government's drone targeting program, indicating that the U.S. isn't always certain of who they're targeting, despite assurances otherwise.
Downton mastermind Julian Fellowes has just signed a deal with NBC to create The Gilded Age, a drama about 1880s New York City. At long last, our very own look at opulent wealth and stifled internal longings!
To the shock of many and the delight of Rockefeller Center, NBC is finishing November sweeps at the top of the broadcast network ratings heap for the first time there in almost a decade.
NBC's Brian Williams called out Donald Trump for being an arrogant blowhard during NBC's election coverage, but there's one small problem. NBC gives Trump his biggest platform of all.
Today in showbusiness news: NBC is majorly tweaking that Christina Applegate/Will Arnett sitcom, Chloe Sevigny is going to do some detective work, and sweet heavens there will be a Best Exotic Marigold Hotel sequel.
Word comes today that NBC has canceled its first-year veterinary sitcom Monkey Hospital Ape ER Dr. Doolittle's Wonderful, Blunderful ICU Animal Practice after weeks of poor ratings. What other shows are in danger? Let's take a look.
Is there a more miserable story in recent TV history than that of Community, a much-lauded show — perhaps overly so, definitely too rabidly — that's fallen victim to a seemingly unending stream of calamities and indignities?
The once most-troubled network is on an amazing rebound. They're topping the ratings and ordering full seasons of new shows. It's all very exciting. Elsewhere in showbiz news, Meryl Streep is being lured for an ill-advised project and Drea De Matteo is going back to work.
The reason you couldn't watch much of the Paralympics live on NBC's many channels is that you didn't really want to.
So many people streamed the London Olympics on their tablets that the next time NBC broadcasts the Olympics, a scant two years away, there's going to be a lot more streaming on the proverbial broadcast menu.
NBC's somewhat logic-challenged new mystery/adventure/drama series Revolution is defying the odds of cancellation, at least the odds we created for it, and holding strong in the ratings.
Today in show business news: NBC is doing remarkably well right now, Comedy Central renews a very bad show, and James Gandolfini is heading back to HBO.
A just-announced big change in the Oscars schedule has shocked everyone the world over. Elsewhere in showbiz: NBC might have a hit on its hands, The Voice gets two new judges, and you'll have to wait a little big longer for Les Miserables.
Ignoring today's moment of silence in respect for the victims and families of 9/11 in favor of chatting with Kris Jenner, as the Today show did this morning, is well, pretty awful. Thanks to the team over at Daily Intel and the power of video editing, you can now cringe and actually watch the Kardashian brood mother narrate the moment of silence in real-time with talk about her new boobs.
They broke even. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports Group, announced tonight that NBC, somehow, didn't make any money off the Olympics. Well, we shouldn't say somehow. They didn't make anything off the Olympics because they paid way too much for them.
NBC has put the pilot episode of its new serialized mystery adventure show Revolution on Hulu and, curious to answer a burning question, we gave it a watch. Our question was this: Why is everyone fighting with swords?
Comcast cut the operating budget of the once-mighty Tonight Show a few weeks ago, and now the New York Post's Page 6 reports the once-mighty Today Show might soon go under the knife.
They've gone and made a Carrie remake and the first two stills do not look terribly promising. Why would anyone do this to poor Carrie? Also today: Matt Damon jumps into the Oscar race unexpectedly, NBC buys a mysterious sitcom, and the Oscars have new producers.
There's major trouble behind the scenes of NBC's Tonight Show. Around two dozen people are being laid off, senior staff members are taking huge pay cuts and the show's operating budget is being peeled back. Even Leno wasn't spared.
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Let's set aside our snark and enjoy the time we have with the Olympics while we still can. We've only got until Sunday.
While you're busy grumbling about missing the men's 100m final on Sunday because of NBC's tape-delay policies, millions in Britain will be watching live, and the BBC's non-stop Olympics coverage strategy is paying off for them in a huge way.
NBC is dropping its paywall and allowing people to stream the 200 meter men's individual medley race featuring rival teammates Ryan Lotche and Michael Phelps, according to All Things D, which is sort of an interesting concession to the many who aren't super happy the network is keeping the best races for primetime
Now that NBC has performed an incredible feat and not lost $200 million on the Olympics, let's focus on the future. What comes after these games have come to their glorious end?
NBC's ratings for the 2012 Olympics have been great, in spite of the complaints about its delayed coverage, and on Wednesday the network announced perhaps its biggest triumph yet: It's going to break even broadcasting it.
And just like that, he's back: Guy Adams, the Independent reporter Twitter suspended for a supposed privacy violation after he harshly criticized NBC's Olympics coverage, has had his account reinstated, critical tweets and all.
The saga of Guy Adams, the Independent journalist suspended from Twitter after a series of tweets critical of NBC, took an insidious turn on Tuesday as NBC claimed it filed its complaint about Adams at Twitter's behest.
Twitter suspended the account of a journalist who was one of the loudest voices criticizing NBC's Olympics coverage, after NBC complained he'd inappropriately shared the personal information of one of its executives.
Whenever there is anything good in this world, there are those who disagree vehemently that it is good. Never is this more true than on the Internet, and never is this more true than with the Olympics.
Are Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks in love? This is the biggest question I have about NBC's trusty swimming commentators.
Dana Vollmer broke a world record; Michelle Obama hugged Kobe and Lebron; and NBC gets a lot of bad press. Your day in Olympic news.
Apparently NBC's controversial tape-delay strategy is working. The Olympics opening ceremony drew the largest audience ever for an opening ceremony that didn't take place in the U.S., NBC announced on Saturday.
It's only been around six months since the new, revamped CBS This Morning hit the air, and it appears the network has already grown tired of its current co-host lineup, as CBS announced today that the network's chief White House correspondent, Norah O'Donnell, will be replacing current co-host and Early Show alum Erica Hill.
Today's Hollywood news: An Olympics record has already been broken, Alex Pettyfer and Kristen Stewart are the newest item (on screen!), and MTV makes a wise renewal.
Today in Hollywood news: A cast bands together to demand more money, MTV revives a popular old show, and NBC will get political again this fall.
Microsoft and NBC News have finalized their online news divorce, with Microsoft receiving roughly $300 million for its 50 percent share in the site, according to The New York Times' Brian Stelter.
NBC might have learned something from the horribly stupid way they handled Ann Curry's Today Show departure. When there are reports one of your personalities is going to get fired, immediately deny it, even if there's some truth to it. Deny. Deny. Deny.
The head of NBC News called out The New York Times for their recap of Ann Curry's Today Show goodbye that featured a description of a video package that never aired during the episode.
Remember way back in 2010 when you hated watching the Olympics on tape delay and you couldn't figure out why NBC wasn't streaming everything online as it happened? Consider your prayers answered. Everything is going to be streamed this year.
Word is out today, via TV Guide's Michael Schneider, that B.J. Novak, a writer and costar on NBC's The Office, is leaving the show effective pretty much immediately. Yikes, is there anyone left on this show?
Savannah Guthrie, who was previously the most likely replacement for Ann Curry, has been officially offered the job of Today Show co-host.
The backlash over NBC's decision to remove Ann Curry from The Today Show is already starting, and the person leading the charge is an Iraq war veteran.
NBC News is getting hammered in two of the country's biggest newspapers and former Keith Olbermann, who went to war with NBC two employer fights ago, couldn't be happier.
As The Atlantic Wire's Connor Simpson explained, Ann Curry's exit from The Today Show can be explained by her lack of chemistry with co-host Matt Lauer.
Ann Curry's days as a co-host of NBC's The Today Show are officially numbered, as The New York Times' Brian Stelter is reporting network execs want Curry out of her current role by the London Summer Olympics.
Today: The Diceman gets a strange new opportunity, NBC finds a Hannibal Lecter, and MTV digs through the barrel some more.
Fox News is taking a drubbing for broadcasting a four-minute video attacking President Obama Wednesday but the network's arch-rival, MSNBC, has thus far avoided criticism for an anti-Mitt Romney video it produced and broadcast in February.
Today: Arsenio might be back, Justin Bieber heads to TV, and CNN is in the pits.
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, Sony has decided not to renew Dan Harmon's contract as Community's showrunner and decided to replace him for season 4.
This is arguably the biggest week of the network TV year, as the big five hold upfront presentations in New York, showing off their new schedules and series for advertisers. What's in, what's out, and what looks good? Let's take a look! First up are NBC and Fox.
Let's get to the most important news first: NBC has renewed Parks & Recreation for a full season, not the truncated half-season it was recently rumored to be destined for. So phew. Well done, NBC. Now, moving on to everything else: NBC has lots of comedy shows all of a sudden!
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