Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The CW is adding three new sci-fi and fantasy series to its 2013-14 schedule, along with a drama about the teenage Mary, Queen of Scots. The network also announced Thursday that it's renewing "Nikita" and "The Carrie Diaries." The CW had previously said it's picking up "The...

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS' fall schedule will examine President John F. Kennedy's life and his death 50 years ago through a modern lens, part of the network's increased emphasis on relevance, its programming chief said. A variety of programs about Kennedy will air in the weeks leading up to the...

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A futuristic drama from producer-writer J.J. Abrams of "Lost" and the "Star Trek" movie franchise and a comedy with Andy Samberg of "Saturday Night Live" fame as a carefree police detective will be on Fox's new schedule, the network said. Four new dramas and five comedies...

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — NBC's long-running "The Office" was a faux documentary about cubicle life. The Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. didn't exist. Try telling that to merchants, tourism officials and regular folks here in the real-world city of 76,000, for whom the Emmy-winning...

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is planning an unscripted series about Chicago that will be executive-produced by Robert Redford. The eight-part series, "Chicagoland," will premiere in 2014. CNN said Wednesday that "Chicagoland" will explore where politics and policy meet people's lives in the...

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Against all odds, "The Killing" lives. This AMC whodunit, which solved a tangled murder case — Who killed Rosie Larsen? — during two often gripping, sometimes exasperating seasons, then was canceled last July for low ratings, will rise from the dead for a welcome third...

Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Listeners to public radio's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" have the chance to connect host Peter Sagal's voice to his face — and brush up on the U.S. Constitution. For a monthlong PBS series, Sagal traveled cross-country to illuminate the original document and its 27...

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The "bad boys" are on the move. The Saturday night television fixture "Cops" is leaving Fox after 25 years and will be shown on the Spike network. The cable network aimed at young male viewers said it will begin airing the action documentary series with the indelible theme...

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — TV-over-the-Internet startup Aereo wants a federal court to declare its service legal across the nation. Aereo takes free signals from the airwaves and sends them over the Internet to paying subscribers. Federal courts in New York have been issuing preliminary rulings...

Updated: Sun, May 5, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Media critic Howard Kurtz used his CNN show on Sunday to point a finger at himself, apologizing for a story on gay basketball player Jason Collins that he said was riddled with errors and shouldn't have been written in the first place. The extraordinary edition of CNN's...