Downtown Milwaukee will soon have a permanent reminder of the ‘‘Happy Days’’ television show.
A bronze statue of Arthur ‘‘Fonzie’’ Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, will be dedicated Aug. 19 along the Milwaukee River, VISIT Milwaukee announced today.
Music fans who can’t trek to Tennessee for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival still have a chance to see the action: Fuse TV is televising parts of the three-day extravaganza, its first national TV exposure.
A video reel of the fall 2008 primetime TV schedule.
Jimmy Kimmel knows how to deliver an industry joke with some sting, as he proved to advertisers getting a first look at ABC’s fall schedule last week.
‘‘Here at ABC we are very excited about both of our new shows,’’ Kimmel said to knowing laughs.
Both. One is a game show produced by Ashton Kutcher, the other an adaptation of a series done by the BBC. It’s hardly a burst of creativity from a network that proudly introduced eight new series last fall.
The fall schedules rolled out last week with limited fanfare provided evidence of how deeply network television was hurt by this winter’s writers strike. The pain from those wounds will linger into next season precisely when the networks — already hemorrhaging viewers — can least afford it.
It’s true: ‘‘Desperate Housewives’’ will flash-forward five years.
Marcia Cross, who plays domestic goddess Bree on the ABC comedy-drama, said in a recent phone interview that a flash-forward narrative device will offer viewers a glimpse into the future lives of the Wisteria Lane gang.
Spoiler alert: Read no further if you don’t want to know what happens to some of the central characters.
A sneak peek at tonight's return of Britney Spears to the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," from CBS.
Three times might be the charm for Britney Spears and ‘‘How I Met Your Mother.’’
With Spears making her second guest appearance on the popular CBS comedy, the show’s co-creator Craig Thomas says tonight's episode was written to leave the door open for the pop singer to make a return appearance next season.
Production of ABC’s ‘‘Ugly Betty’’ is moving to New York.
The announcement was made Monday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and ABC Studios President Mark Pedowitz. They say the show will take advantage of a 35 percent tax credit from the city and state when it makes the move from Los Angeles.
Comedy Central has greenlighted ‘‘The Gong Show With Dave Attell,’’ ordering eight half-hour episodes of an updated version of the classic talent show. The premiere is set for July 17.
For whatever it may be worth (which is not much), a die-hard fan of canceled CBS nuclear-war drama "Jericho" has launched a fan campaign to bring the series back from the dead.
"Jericho" was resurrected once by a fan campaign, after CBS axed the show at the end of its first season. Fans organized and sent thousands of pounds of peanuts (based on a line in the finale) to CBS execs, and the network brought back the show for a short, post-strike second season. But ratings made that decision look like, well, nuts, so the second season finale was retooled to be the season finale.
But some fans continue to rally and beg for the show to continue.
Not as much as last year, but "Idol" is still the tops — 33 percent of U.S. workers named American Idol as the TV program discussed most often at the workplace, down from 37 percent in 2007, according to the latest Spherion Workplace Snapshot.
Marvel Animation is powering up the ‘‘Marvel Super Hero Squad.’’
The Marvel Entertainment division said it is producing 26 half-hour episodes of a new ‘‘super stylized’’ animated series aimed at 6- to 8-year-olds.
It will feature such well-known heroes as Iron Man, Hulk, Wolverine, Thor, Fantastic Four and Captain America; all occupy a caricatured Super Hero City and are thrust into humorous adventures as they thwart the villainous plans of Doctor Doom, Magneto, Loki, the Abomination and others.
Esai Morales has joined the cast of Sci Fi Channel’s two-hour ‘‘Caprica’’ pilot.
The project is a prequel to the network’s ‘‘Battlestar Galactica.’’ Morales will play Joseph Adama, the father of William Adama (played in ‘‘Galactica’’ by Edward James Olmos), who one day will take command of the Battlestar Galactica.
Neil Patrick Harris (left) as Barney and guest star Britney Spears as Abby appear in a scene from "How I Met Your Mother" to air May 12. (CBS)
She's baaaack! And that sentence is almost as much of a cliche as spicing up sitcom ratings with celebrity guests.
But Britney Spears' drop-in to "How I Met Your Mother" — an otherwise quick, smart show led by Neil Patrick Harris — lured an extra couple million eyes to the show on March 24, so CBS was happy to invite her back. Harris was less enthusiastic.
TV Guide reports that ABC has decided against ordering another season of “Men in Trees,” the light
drama starring Heche as a relationship coach adjusting to small-town life in
Alaska.
