By Rick Kissell
NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” continued its ratings hot streak last week by drawing its largest overall audience in 20 months. The soap celebrated its 50th anniversary in early November by drawing its…
By James Rainey
What do a fictional prize fighter and a real-life professional basketball game have in common? Everything, when both are delivered to audiences via sister branches of the Time Warner corporate…
By Jacob Bryant
Hulu has given a short first look at its nine-hour limited event series, “11.22.63.” The show is based on the Stephen King novel and stars James Franco as Jake Epping, a modern-day English teacher…
By Elizabeth Wagmeister
Fox is tapping into the popular horror genre with a script order for “Haunted,” a hourlong drama from horror film writer/director Brent Bell, Variety has learned. Bell — who wrote and directed the…
By Dave McNary
“Family Guy” creator and writer-producer Seth MacFarlane will receive the 2015 lifetime achievement award from the Writers Guild of America West’s Animation Writers Caucus. The award will be…