– Jay Z was not “right next to De Niro” the other night at Leonardo DiCaprio’s birthday. The Taxi Driver star gave the Jigga a Meet the Fockers-level awkward greeting when Jay-Z tried to approach the King of Comedy only to get rebuffed because he had never returned Bob’s phone calls. Even Beyoncé couldn’t Read More
On a recent post-NFL season Monday night, 7.3 million people watched a remake of Hawaii 5-0. Another 6.7 million watched Castle, a crime procedural that’s safely avoided buzz for four seasons. A crowd less than half that size, 3.2 million, watched an American furniture manufacturer tearfully repent for outsourcing the family business, met a real-life moon colonist, and saw a chimpanzee flip through a children’s book. “They like to look at the pictures,” the voiceover explained.
They had landed on the three-month-old newsmagazine Rock Center, NBC’s prime time bid to recapture an audience for TV news by offering a looser format in which to showcase Brian Williams’s formidable charisma. Mr. Williams’s sensibility is so deeply ingrained in the programming that Rock Center executive producer Rome Hartman likes to say that, when it’s working, it feels like “Brian’s playlist.” Read More
It’s a good day to get a job as an investigative reporter.
Michael Isikoff, who has worked for Newsweek since 1994, has been hired by NBC News as a National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News president Steve Capus announced today.
Mr. Isikoff has been one of the best in his field, leading coverage of the Read More
Not long ago, the accomplished war correspondents Damien and Diana Cave were watching TV in their apartment in Miami, where Mr. Cave is now the bureau chief for The New York Times, when they saw a trailer for a new summer show on NBC.
The promo crackled with action. A man in military clothing Read More
“By the way, that feline whitefish on a bagel, shmeared properly, is not so bad,” said Jim Cramer.
It was the night of Thursday, April 23, and the host of CNBC’s Mad Money was standing on a stage at the front of a ballroom in the New York Hilton, talking about Read More
In a move that came as a surprise to exactly no one in the television news industry, on Tuesday morning, amid a mind-spinning confluence of big news stories, Neal Shapiro formally announced his intention to step down as president of NBC News.
In a letter to his staff, Mr. Shapiro said that since last Read More
