Brian Lowry

"The Writers' Room" is a great idea, and a logical, inexpensive fit for a second-tier channel like Sundance, eager to generate street cred within the industry while connecting with committed...

For CNN, the birth of the Royal Baby (complete with His or Her own royal hashtag) is a royal opportunity. Sure, everyone in the media muck will be diving into...

"American Horror Story: Asylum" vs. "The Bible." And that's not even the weirdest thing about the Emmy nominations for best movie or miniseries. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences...

Nik Wallenda survived his " Skywire " walk across the Grand Canyon in June. But it's not much of a leap to envision the fallout from the made-for-TV event leading...

Taking a page from the Adult Swim playbook (including its producing auspices), Fox is rather shrewdly using its Saturday latenight slot to experiment with a number of animated concepts, under...

It's a gimmick, of course -- and a completely unnecessary one at that -- that the premiere of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" incorporates a "Watch 'n Sniff" stunt, with...

One inherent advantage of producing for 10-year-old girls (give or take) is the freedom to borrow liberally from past works without such creative license being instantly identified. So beyond the...

Trayvon Martin was the first casualty in the George Zimmeran case, but restraint, on the news media's part, was clearly the second, as cable news once again established it is...

Shakespeare's misunderstood line "let's kill all the lawyers" can be viewed somewhat differently in this summer of the George Zimmerman trial, as attorneys crowd the airwaves, making their bids to...

You can't hurry love. And you can't force synergy. Tribune's long-awaited decision to spin off its newspaper holdings and bet squarely on television pounds a final nail in the coffin...