Bieber fever cured

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Justin Bieber may be on course to have the top-selling album of the year, but TV-wise, he’s a major flop. The pop superstar’s hour-long NBC concert special, “Justin Bieber: All Around The World,” pulled in only 3.3 million viewers, making it the network’s lowest-rated broadcast on...

Dad’s all set

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Forget socks and barbecue equipment, what you really want to get for the dad in your life is a new TV. Not a big-screen behemoth, though — chances are one of those is already in the living room — but a little TV that’ll fit snugly into a kitchen corner, the...

‘Throne’ can be yours for only $30g

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HBO is selling the ultimate TV geek prop — a life-size Iron Throne from “Game of Thrones.” All season long, fans watched as a vicious war was waged for control over the king of the Seven Kingdom’s fabled throne, but, as it turns out, all that bloodshed was totally unnecessary...

‘Hatfields’ now a series

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Family feuds are big business now, thanks to the success of History’s “Hatfields & McCoys” miniseries. NBC has snapped up Charlize Theron’s modern-day series based on the famed 19th century Appalachian fighting families, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series will update the setting to a contemporary city, with...

Morning music showdown

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Summer’s finally here and so are “Today” and “Good Morning America’s” Friday-morning concerts. If you think waking up in time to catch the 8 a.m. performances is hard, imagine being the musicians that need to show up for 6 a.m. rehearsals. “When we give [musicians] the...

‘Carrie’ me back

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It’s 1984 and Carrie Bradshaw, the style icon from “Sex and the City,” is a small-town high school girl with an itch for the big time. That’s the setting of “The Carrie Diaries” — the CW’s hotly anticipated prequel to “Sex and the City.” The new series doesn...

Casey look-alike cast for TV movie

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Meet the TV movie version of “Tot Mom” Casey Anthony. Canadian actress Holly Deveaux, 19, is set to play the infamously acquitted 26-year-old mother in Lifetime’s made-for-TV “Prosecuting Casey Anthony,” according to reports. The movie is based on prosecutor Jeff Ashton’s best-selling book, “Imperfect Justice,” and will focus...

Casey look-alike cast for TV movie

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Meet the TV movie version of “Tot Mom” Casey Anthony (right). Canadian actress Holly Deveaux, 19, (left) is set to play the infamously acquitted 26-year-old mother in Lifetime’s made-for-TV “Prosecuting Casey Anthony,” according to reports. The movie is based on prosecutor Jeff Ashton’s best-selling book, “Imperfect Justice,” and...

War comes to King’s landing

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'Game of Thrones” is bucking to be the one with the battle scene to beat for all future TV series. This Sunday, HBO debuts “GoT’s” highly-anticipated “Blackwater” episode — the brutal battle that the fantasy series has been barreling towards since Season 2 premiered last month. Fans denied a big...

Where have all

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TV doctors used to be a dime a dozen. Shows like “Chicago Hope,” “ER” and “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” were long-running hits in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Then, “Nip/Tuck,” “House” and “Grey’s Anatomy” elbowed their way onto the schedule to make lasting impressions on fans. But...