‘Restaurant: Impossible’ Host Robert Irvine Cooks Up New Deal With Food Network

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJackie Levin, a veteran producer at NBC News’ “Today” who in recent years steered the show’s 9 a.m.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals is back with a series of self-shot shows.However, the series, which was rebooted last year after its initial 11 year run, will debut on the Food Network Kitchen app rather than the linear network.The Discovery-owned company is launching 20 episodes this fall on the direct-to-consumer service, which launched last October.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDiscovery said second-quarter net income fell 71% after the coronavirus pandemic spurred a pullback in advertising at both its U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAMC Networks said the coronavirus pandemic and a substantial impairment charge contributed to a significant decline in second quarter profit, the latest media company to show the signs of grappling with conditions that have scuttled TV production and slowed the flow of advertising.The New York owner of the AMC, IFC and Sundance cable networks said net income fell to $15 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with $128.7 million, or $2.25 a share, in the

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn interview between Axios reporter Jonathan Swan and President Donald Trump that aired Monday on HBO has drawn the kind of social-media huzzahs accorded to a heartwarming meme or the drop of a Taylor Swift album.In a conversation taped Tuesday, July 28, Swan questions Trump’s use of statistics to describe how the nation is grappling with coronavirus, suggesting U.S. efforts are working better than those of other countries.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen basketball fans tune in to an NBA doubleheader Thursday night on TNT or the start of ESPN’s coverage on Friday, they will have a courtside seat to a good chunk of the action.

Kate Aurthur editorIn June, two perennial Food Network shows, Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” and Robert Irvine’s “Restaurant: Impossible,” went back into production. It was the first time either show shot on location since the coronavirus pandemic brought all television and film production to a dramatic halt in mid-March.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMike Greenberg must move fast as the host of ESPN’s “Get Up” each weekday morning. He’s hoping a new radio gig in the afternoons will give him the chance he needs to slow things down.“On the TV show, we are just flying through stuff.

Regis Philbin’s family spoke out to thank fans for their support after the beloved host’s death.“Regis’s family is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love we’ve received,” a Philbin family spokesperson said in a statement to Us Weekly on Monday, July 27. “If you’d like to honor Regis’s memory, we kindly ask that you make a donation to http://foodbanknyc.org/, to help people in need in his beloved New York, especially his home borough of The Bronx.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSinclair Broadcasting, one of the nation’s largest operators of local TV stations, said on Saturday it intended to present a weekend news report featuring commentators offering discredited conspiracy theories about the nation’s coronavirus pandemic, despite scrutiny and pushback that have erupted since CNN called attention to the program late Friday.“We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial,” the

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBaseball advertising appears to have pivoted from a months-long slump to hitting above average.Fox Corp. has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory in its share of games in Major League Baseball’s pandemic-truncated 2020 season, according to Seth Winter, executive vice president of sports sales for the company, as well as all the ad berths in its planned broadcast of four games slated to air this Saturday on Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports 1.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the Disney-owned unit following an investigation into allegations of insensitive behavior and her treatment of employees, according to a person familiar with the matter,Staffers were notified of the matter Monday in a memo from Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television. “The investigation substantiated that Ms.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTwo former staffers at Fox News Channel filed suit in federal court Monday, alleging they had been harassed individually by Ed Henry, the Fox News anchor who was fired by the cable-news outlet earlier this month following a complaint about “willful sexual misconduct in the workplace,” and their disclosures threaten to revive an era that the Fox Corp.-owned media company had hoped to put behind it after the ouster of Roger Ailes.One of the employees alleged she

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf NBC and Lorne Michaels have their way, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this fall could move from being produced from cast members’ homes to being made the old-fashioned way – “from New York.”Michaels and his team are making plans to bring the show back to NBC’s Manhattan studios for the venerable late-night program’s 46th season, according to two people familiar with the matter – the latest of TV’s wee-hours programs to try and navigate a new normal in the midst

Mickey Rourke is unhappy with one-time co-star Robert De Niro, and let that be known in no uncertain terms in a scathing Instagram post.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBari Weiss, a staff writer and editor for the New York Times’ increasingly heated Opinion section, is leaving her job, she announced in a letter to the publisher.“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” Weiss said in a statement posted on her personal site Tuesday.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon moved to take NBC’s “Tonight Show” from “at home” to “at large” by bringing the venerable program back to NBC’s New York studios after weeks of broadcasting the show from his house.“Normalcy, any type of normalcy feels great,” Fallon told viewers during Monday’s “Tonight” broadcast, dressed in casual clothes, with cameramen wearing facial masks and members of the show’s in-house Roots band scattered around the studio for proper social distancing.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN in March gave a handful of advertisers and ad-agency personnel a sneak peek of its ambitious six-part documentary series on late night, just days before New York City was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. The project hasn’t been seen in public since.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter decades spent fighting TV’s never-ending battle for morning-news dominance, NBC’s “Today” is launching a salvo on another front: Hollywood’s streaming wars.NBC is set to debut “Today All Day,” a round-the-clock “feed” of material from its venerable A.M. program.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDespite a pandemic that has forced many Americans to shelter at home, Nielsen will follow through on its plans to chase TV  viewers in bars, hotels and offices, after allAfter meeting with a storm of criticism from TV networks, Nielsen is expected to reverse its recent decision to delay the inclusion of so-called “out of home” viewers in its tabulation of national TV ratings, a sign of just how important the measure is to some of the nation’s biggest traditional