OSLO (AFP) ― Say goodbye to breathless intrigue and dramatic twists: “Slow TV” is attracting record audiences in Norway, with hours, even days, devoted to knitting, fishing and panoramic landscapes. Public broadcaster NRK has replaced some of its usual prime-time drama and entertainment with long, lingering images of cruise liners touring fjords and hours of crackling log fires. With up to 134 ...

With KBS reportedly mulling potential hosts for the latest season of its leading reality show “1 Night, 2 Days,” reports are suggesting that the local broadcaster is trying to get popular comedian Kang Ho-dong to appear on the show again. The Star News reported Tuesday that several high-ranking officials from KBS visited Kang while he was filming the latest episode of a sports variety program “O...

CULVER CITY, California (AP) ― There’s a new kid on the block at Culver Studios. Inside a towering soundstage, just around the corner from where such television comedies as TBS’ “Cougar Town” and Showtime’s “Episodes” have been filmed, another production is in full swing. A set depicting a high-tech, two-story office is hosting a boozy party scene for “Betas,” a comedy about a quirky crew of app...

NEW YORK (AP) ― CBS News hasn’t invited Dan Rather back to participate in its 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination, but images of the longtime anchor who parted bitterly with the network will be a part of its upcoming documentary on how the story unfolded that day. Rather helped organize CBS’ plans for President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young...

NEW YORK (AP) ― A few years ago, ABC’s “General Hospital” was in trouble. “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” had been given their series’ end dates and the “GH” cast and crew worried their show would be next. “You’d be on set and you’d hear little things like, ‘Oh, we’ve got maybe six months”’ before cancellation, said Jason Thompson, who plays Patrick Drake on the longest-running daytime...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Hit TV show “Glee” topped the list of nominees for the public-voted People’s Choice awards announced Tuesday, while Sandra Bullock and singer Katy Perry were also among the most short-listed. Veteran actor Robin Williams, who won his first People’s Choice Award in 1979 for “Mork and Mindy,” won another nomination nearly 35 years later in the same category, favorite actor in a...