Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred as a sexually liberated housewife in the 1970s erotic movie "Emmanuelle," has died of cancer at age 60.

"Emmanuelle," the story of a sexually adventurous young model and her husband on a trip to Thailand, became as big a worldwide sensation in the 1970s as E.L. James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" has in recent months. The softcore French film was that country's highest-grossing release of 1974 and became so popular with female French moviegoers that Columbia Pictures decided to distribute the movie in the U.S. "Emmanuelle" ultimately grossed $100 million...

CBS is off to a slow start this season but not all Wall Street analysts are ready to hit the panic button yet.

So far, CBS is down 10% in viewers and almost 20% in adults 18-49, the demographic advertisers covet and one that the network was expected to win this season.

CBS launched only four new shows this year and while two dramas -- "Vegas" and "Elementary" -- are holding their own, the comedy "Partners" is not doing well and the plug has already been pulled on the other new drama, "Made in Jersey."

Though only NBC has anything to boast about this season, CBS's stock performance is more tied to...

After the coffee. Before mourning the demise of Newsweek. 

The Skinny: Since Major League Baseball called a game for rain without a drop in the sky, I'm declaring today a snow day. Go back to bed! Thursday's headlines include Warner Bros.' big win in its legal battle over the rights to Superman, a look at all the Jeff Zucker-CNN speculation, and Dish and Cablevision may be near a settlement.

Daily Dose:CNN founder Ted Turner went on CBS' morning show Thursday and said he'd prefer  "a little less fluff" on the cable news channel. "I'd like to see more emphasis, myself, on hard news and...

Superman won’t be going up, up, and away from Warner Bros.

In a crucial legal victory for the Burbank studio, a federal judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday denied an effort by the heirs of Superman co-creator Joseph Shuster to reclaim their 50% interest in the world’s most famous superhero.

Superman is one of Warner's most valuable characters, having generated more than $500 million at the domestic box office with five films and billions of dollars more from television series such as “Smallville,” toys and games, and 74 years’ worth of comic books.

Had Warner and its...

Club Penguin founder Lane Merrifield is leaving Walt Disney Interactive two years after a reorganization put him in charge of the entertainment giant's online virtual worlds strategy.

He is being replaced by a well-regarded Disney veteran of 10 years, Chris Heatherly, according to a person knowledgeable of the changes who is not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Heatherly originally designed toys for the company before moving to its digital games division.

Merrifield joined Disney in 2007 after its $350-million acquisition of Club Penguin, which pioneered the once popular business of...

The second, and more combative, presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney attracted an audience of more than 65.6 million people, according to Nielsen.

Ratings were up nearly 4% for Tuesday night's debate at Hofstra University in New York, moderated by Candy Crowley, when compared with the second debate in 2008 between Obama and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). 

However, it was about 1.5 million fewer people than watched the first debate between Romney and Obama two weeks ago, when observers gave Obama low marks for his performance.

Ten television networks carried the debate live. NBC...

Costume designers and art directors who work on such shows as HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" have a new three-year contract.

The contract will run through September 30, 2015 and applies to scenic artists and designers, art directors, costume designers, art department coordinators and their assistants working in feature film and television...

Hardly a day goes by without speculation that former NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker is the leading candidate to succeed Jim Walton as president of Time Warner's CNN Worldwide when he resigns at year end.

The case for Zucker is easy to make. Before he became a media bigwig, he was a top news executive who knew how to balance good journalism with strong ratings. His run as executive producer of NBC's morning program "Today" was incredibly successful and his news experience isn't limited to the AM hours. He's helped produce the Olympics, ran NBC election coverage, presidential...

After the coffee. Before trying out as Yankee shortstop.

The Skinny: Do you think Obama and Romney let each other know what color tie they will be wearing before the debate? Just wondering. Wednesday's headlines include a look at who has the better hosts, the Oscars or the Golden Globes, and layoffs at the Weather Channel.

Daily Dose:The TV season is only a few weeks old but NBC already has something to celebrate. The network has won the 18-49s demo race for the third week in a row, the first time in a decade it has put together such a hot streak. A lot of the credit goes to football and "The...

Activist shareholders gave News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch a list of reforms Tuesday at the media company's shareholders meeting.

Several lobbied, unsuccessfully, for Murdoch to step down as chairman of the media conglomerate. Activists also tried -- but failed -- to do away with the company's two classes of stock, which give the Murdoch family nearly 40% voting control of company affairs.

Aaron Epstein of North Hollywood attended the meeting with a different reform in mind.

"I am a longtime subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, and I am here to ask for you to have a left-of-center columnist...

At the end of News Corp.’s combative shareholders meeting, the titan of old media, Rupert Murdoch, was asked a new media question that seemed to catch him off guard.

Please explain a message you sent on Twitter, one shareholder representative asked Murdoch Tuesday during the international media company’s annual meeting of investors at the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles.

“Oh, please!” Murdoch said, swatting his right hand in the air dismissively.

Murdoch has taken to Twitter and in the last few days unleashed a barrage of his political opinions, accusing the White...