Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday that her popular daytime talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” will end its run in 2011, Tim Bennett, the President of Harpo, announced in a letter released to ABC affiliates on Thursday.
“Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ that she has decided to end what is [...]

CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN effective immediately.
The longtime host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” said Wednesday on his show that it would be his last. He said CNN had allowed him to be released from his contact, which would enable him “to pursue new opportunities.”
He said he was considering a number of [...]

Alan Ball, creator of hit series True Blood and Six Feet Under, tells Gabriel Wilder he has plenty of other projects to get his teeth into.
Alan Ball’s vampire series True Blood has almost single-handedly pulled the premium US cable channel HBO out of a slump.
The network was having a fallow period after its glory days whenThe Sopranos and Sex and the [...]

Dawn Jackson Blatner of Chicago has been reading Gourmet magazine for several years and was sad to hear that the November issue will be the last one.
But the truth is, when she wants to find a new recipe these days, she often goes online. Just the other day she searched the Internet for a simple [...]

Actor Leonard Nimoy returns to U.S. television this week in his new guise as a mysterious mastermind on the show “Fringe,” but doubts that his Mr. Spock will head back to space, the final frontier.
Nimoy, 78, reprised his role as Spock, playing an older version of the character in director J.J. Abrams new movie take [...]

Writers on the new television series “FlashForward” work in a room with the window blinds drawn tight. They don’t want to risk anyone peeking into their office on the sunny Walt Disney Studios lot here.
A drama about a blackout that gives the entire human population a quick glimpse six months into the future, “FlashForward” debuts [...]

Jay Leno has shed more than a dozen pounds and the weighty traditions of the “Tonight Show” that would tie his prime-time future to his late-night past.
The desk that’s central to any talk show will go mostly unused. There will also be fewer stars hawking their latest movies, TV shows and albums, and instead more [...]

Ask model and fashion designer Emme whether television and other media are more accepting of plus-size people, and she quickly corrects you.
“Average women,” she says.
The host of the new Fox reality dating show, “More to Love,” has been on this campaign since the mid-1990s, when she began telling full-size women to be more accepting of [...]

Three years ago, J. J. Abrams had to decide whether to keep making television shows for the Walt Disney Company or move to a new home base. A bidding war had broken out for him.

Another is “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” a comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Mr. Abrams, credited with “Alias” and “Lost,” signed a rich television deal [...]

Don Hewitt wasn’t just a giant in the world of TV news. He was a founding father of television, with his hand still in the game well into the Internet age.
And he had a ball, leading “maybe the best life that any guy who ever chose journalism as a profession ever led,” as he crowed [...]