• Charlie Brown specials to air on TV, after all, in PBS deal

    Charlie Brown specials to air on TV, after all, in PBS deal

    NEW YORK — The “Great Pumpkin” never showed on broadcast television this year, but after a deal with PBS, the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Christmas specials will return to the air. Last
  • Your guide to all the fall 2020 TV premiere dates

    Your guide to all the fall 2020 TV premiere dates

    The pandemic may have affected plans for the fall 2020 TV schedule, but there's plenty to watch from 'Fargo' to 'Family Guy' to 'Filthy Rich' to 'Fear the Walking Dead.'
  • Tavis Smiley ordered to pay PBS $2.6M for sexual misconduct

    Tavis Smiley ordered to pay PBS $2.6M for sexual misconduct

    A judge has ordered TV host Tavis Smiley to pay $2.6 million to the Public Broadcasting Service for having multiple affairs with his subordinates. A Washington, D.C., jury found in March that Smiley had breached the morals clause in his contract, following a three-week trial. The jurors heard deposition testimony from six women who accused …
  • The Russia-Obsessed Media Does Its Best to Ignore Clinesmith’s Guilty Plea

    The Russia-Obsessed Media Does Its Best to Ignore Clinesmith’s Guilty Plea

    As news broke Friday that John Durham’s criminal probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation had resulted in a former FBI lawyer pleading guilty to doctoring FISA evidence used against the Trump campaign, the formerly Russia-obsessed mainstream media did its best to look the other way. Kevin Clinesmith, who first worked on the FBI’s …
  • Helen Hunt brings trailblazing war journalist to life in ‘World on Fire’

    Helen Hunt brings trailblazing war journalist to life in ‘World on Fire’

    Helen Hunt says Nancy Campbell, the fictional reporter she plays in the war drama “World on Fire,” is based on two different real-life journalists: William Shirer, who chronicled Hitler’s rise to power for CBS Radio, and Claire Hollingworth, the Daily Telegraph reporter whose “scoop of the century” broke the news that Germany invaded Poland — …