Mark your calendar: NBC announced Wednesday it will broadcast the 62nd annual primetime Emmy Awards on August 29, 2010. That’s earlier than the usual September date because NBC has Sunday Night Football and doesn’t want it to conflict. There’s also...

The closing credits of “Modern Family” tonight were followed by a card in memoriam for David Lloyd, the father of co-creator Christopher Lloyd. David Lloyd died of prostate cancer this month at age 75. He won an Emmy for a half-hour of television that...

Wonderful to watch Katie Couric’s handling of the Palin media blitz story on tonight’s “CBS Evening News,” on the same day Palin trash-talked Couric to Oprah. Nobody has ever been more pleasantly professional as the CBS News anchor tossed the story to...

As expected in the case of “Hank,” as feared in the case of “Dollhouse,” both are cancelled. Fox says “Dollhouse” will have its finale Jan. 22. ABC doesn’t need to say anything about getting rid of the Kelsey Grammer misfire, except maybe, sorry it...

John King, the reliably tough straight-shooter on CNN, will take the spot vacated yesterday by Lou Dobbs in a move that should put CNN back in the nightly ratings competition. Dobbs declined to scale back his “advocacy journalism” (ie. blatantly...