In a ho-hum TV season in which most new shows have been greeted with a collective shrug and a click of the remote control, CBS' freshman "The Mentalist" has managed to deduce what viewers want.
Marathon talks between Hollywood's largest actors union and producers broke off early Saturday, with the Screen Actors Guild saying it will ask its members to authorize a strike.
Cody Linley won't be graduating "Dancing with the Stars."
Catching the wave of a public fascination with vampires, HBO's "True Blood" has steadily increased in stature to become the cable network's most popular series since "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City."
The final "ER" season is bringing back some of its original stars for guest shots, but Julianna Margulies won't be among them. She was invited, she says, but declined.
Carson Daly chatted with Eminem, Beyonce gave a show-stopping performance, girls shrieked at the sight of Justin Timberlake and hundreds of fans lined up outside in Times Square for a glimpse at superstars.
It's mayhem on the set of ABC's "Desperate Housewives."
"Saturday Night Live" was left with some big shoes to fill when Amy Poehler departed for her new role of motherhood.
When Bill Cosby entered the polling booth in his neighborhood last week, he carried with him photographs of his late parents and Jimmy, the kid brother who died in childhood.
In a ho-hum TV season in which most new shows have been greeted with a collective shrug and a click of the remote control, CBS' freshman "The Mentalist" has managed to deduce what viewers want.
Marathon talks between Hollywood's largest actors union and producers broke off early Saturday, with the Screen Actors Guild saying it will ask its members to authorize a strike.
Cody Linley won't be graduating "Dancing with the Stars."
Catching the wave of a public fascination with vampires, HBO's "True Blood" has steadily increased in stature to become the cable network's most popular series since "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City."
The final "ER" season is bringing back some of its original stars for guest shots, but Julianna Margulies won't be among them. She was invited, she says, but declined.
Carson Daly chatted with Eminem, Beyonce gave a show-stopping performance, girls shrieked at the sight of Justin Timberlake and hundreds of fans lined up outside in Times Square for a glimpse at superstars.
It's mayhem on the set of ABC's "Desperate Housewives."
"Saturday Night Live" was left with some big shoes to fill when Amy Poehler departed for her new role of motherhood.
When Bill Cosby entered the polling booth in his neighborhood last week, he carried with him photographs of his late parents and Jimmy, the kid brother who died in childhood.
The late comedian George Carlin -- famous for those "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV" -- was honored Monday with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the only award he saw as a legitimate comedy prize.
It was the question everyone wanted to know: Who saw J.R.?
Talk about inflation. Seth MacFarlane is Hollywood's hundred-million dollar man -- and he's not even bionic.
A Los Angeles judge has signed off on the amicable end to Danny Bonaduce's nearly 18-year marriage.
Susan Lucci's story line on "Dancing With the Stars" has come to an end.
"POPPA DON'T TAKE NO MESS!"
Anthony Edwards says it's easy being Greene.
Chevy Chase didn't look like Gerald Ford and didn't sound like Gerald Ford. But in the mid-1970s, when "Saturday Night Live" first went on the air, Chase -- then a writer and cast member of the show -- made his impression of the president, rife with pratfalls and slapstick, the talk of the country.
"King of the Hill" is over the hill at Fox, which is canceling the long-running animated comedy.
The BBC's highest-paid celebrity has lost more than $2 million after being suspended without pay for a series of abusive telephone calls made by himself and another of the broadcaster's stars.
Bravo isn't letting a court battle over "Project Runway" diminish its fashion sense.
Julie Chen had an overnight bag packed but no idea she'd be headed to Paris shortly after "The Early Show" went off the air Thursday.
The BBC's highest paid star has been suspended for 12 weeks without pay and a senior executive has resigned over a series of abusive telephone calls made by two of its stars, the broadcaster said Thursday.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) suspended one of its best-known stars while another resigned Wednesday for broadcasting a series of "gross" and abusive telephone calls.
Lisa Kudrow co-starred in one of TV's most successful sitcoms, "Friends," and she found success in movies, especially with "Analyze This." But her latest comedic project isn't for the big or small screen.
Cloris Leachman's silly antics are over on "Dancing with the Stars."
"The View's" Sherri Shepherd has something to say to fans of the show: Don't listen to the rumors.
CBS has crossed "The Ex List" off its schedule.
One of Frank Caliendo's best impressions may be that of President Bush, but he says that his sendup has nothing to do with politics.
This couldn't be better if Tina Fey had written it herself. And she's an Emmy-winning writer.
Appearing as President Bush on the primetime edition of "Saturday Night Live," Will Ferrell offered his political "strategery" to Tina Fey's Sarah Palin.
"Mad Men" draws a slice of viewers as slender as Don Draper's 1960s neckties, yet the TV drama unquestionably is all the rage.
CBS is continuing its strong start to the new television season, but for NBC and Fox, last week was one to forget.
Toni Braxton will no longer break it down on "Dancing with the Stars."
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," along with Palin lookalike Tina Fey.
Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford. Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter (and Richard Nixon and Bob Dole). Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush. Will Ferrell as George W. Bush.
Don Cornelius, the former host of the television show "Soul Train," was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, police said Saturday.
Officials at a Los Angeles hospital say "Desperate Housewives" actor Gale Harold is improving after suffering serious injuries in a motorcycle accident.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin plans to appear on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, multiple sources told CNN Thursday.
Jack Narz, a longtime game show host who was an early victim of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when a show he was hosting was canceled, has died. He was 85.
Actress and singer Edie Adams, the blonde beauty who won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on Broadway and who played the television foil to her husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, has died. She was 81.
With a raft of weird roles to his credit, Dennis Hopper might well yawn about playing another wacko. Yet Hopper is totally tickled by his outrageous new alter ego, freaky Los Angeles music producer Ben Cendars in the Starz series "Crash."
All comfortably familiar by cop-show standards, "Life on Mars" begins with NYPD Detective Sam Tyler nabbing a murder suspect, who then gets a grilling from him at the precinct house. He takes a phone call in the age-old squad room, which has lately been upgraded with computers and a splash of color on the walls.
A soft-spoken designer from Portland, Oregon, has the competition sewn up on the fifth season of Bravo's hit reality show "Project Runway."
When news breaks, D.L. Hughley will be ready to mock it.
Gale Harold was in critical condition Wednesday after the "Desperate Housewives" actor crashed his motorcycle the day before, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Rocco DiSpirito won't be cooking up any more moves on "Dancing with the Stars."
It's the question dominating the political scene: When will Tina Fey be back on "Saturday Night Live"?
In this fall's TV season, a secret agent speeds around in a Chevrolet Camaro, a man tries to save the world with the help of a Dodge Ram pickup, and a famous talking car returns to the streets in the form of a Ford Mustang.
Jimmy Smits, a proven TV star in "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue," is looking like the go-to guy when a drama's juicy guest role demands leading-man heft.
Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it.
Looks like they may be ready to bury the hatchet back at the Home Office.
Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on "All My Children" for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, has died at 90.
It seems like the inevitable comedic summit of this fall's presidential campaign: the real Sarah Palin coming on "Saturday Night Live" to meet her look-alike impersonator, Tina Fey.
How do the ladies of "Real Housewives" measure success? In New York co-ops, gated McMansions, fairy-tale weddings, Rolex watches and shameless social climbing.
Hugh Hefner is down a girlfriend.
CBS is looking good so far this TV season, easily winning last week in the prime-time ratings and perhaps minting a new hit in "The Mentalist."
Rocco DiSpirito will serve seconds on "Dancing with the Stars."
Stephen Colbert was raised in South Carolina to be a Southern gentleman. But he spends his days being a jerk. It must be tough.
It's starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president.
It's starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president.
House Peters Jr., a TV actor who became the original Mr. Clean in Procter & Gamble's commercials for household cleaners, died Wednesday. He was 92.
On a massive sound stage at Hollywood's Raleigh Studios, a woman is dying of ovarian cancer.
Strong openings by "Dancing With the Stars" and ABC's most popular prime-time soaps led the network to victory during the first week of a new TV season.
Sharon Osbourne isn't shy about her favorites on Wednesday's "America's Got Talent" finale.
Kim Kardashian won't be back on "Dancing with the Stars."
It used to be called "the love that dare not speak its name" -- particularly in Hollywood, where the revelation of homosexuality was believed to be a career-killer.
Tina Fey reprised her role as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," again appearing as the Republican vice presidential candidate in an opening sketch.
Another Super Bowl, another rock 'n' roll superstar at halftime.
The reality fashion show "Project Runway" will not be able to strut its stuff on the Lifetime TV channel, a judge ruled Friday.
David Letterman kept up his verbal assault on John McCain, commiserating with Paris Hilton and saying he felt like an "ugly date" because the GOP presidential candidate backed out of an appearance on the "Late Show."
In reality television's first bid to attain awards show respectability, it looks like it failed.
Many viewers were first acquainted with Ashley Jensen when she played Maggie, the dowdy, dim-bulb sidekick to Ricky Gervais on his showbiz spoof "Extras."
Ted McGinley from "Married with Children" has gotten a divorce from "Dancing with the Stars."
First came the achingly romantic hilltop reunion between Dr. McDreamy and Meredith that ended last season's "Grey's Anatomy." Is heartbreak next?
Jeffrey Ross didn't get a second chance to quick step on "Dancing with the Stars."
Broadcast television will have 16 gay and bisexual regular characters in prime-time series this fall, more than double the seven of a year ago, a new study has found.
"Dancing with the Stars" is back -- and so are the low score paddles.
Misty May-Treanor just won back-to-back gold medals in beach volleyball, but all she can think about is dancing.
Sunday's Emmy Awards had one of its smallest audiences ever.
When we last saw "Heroes," those ordinary humans with extraordinary powers were tussling with an atypical foe: a writers strike that cut the NBC drama's second season short.
Perhaps there's something to these writers, after all.
They first met in the autumn of 1979; she playing the role of the lovelorn terrorist, he dressed as a rather sloppy Ayatollah Khomeini.
Perhaps there's something to these writers, after all.
Retro '60s drama "Mad Men" and legal thriller "Damages" are poised to take a shot at making Emmy Awards history Sunday -- and wooing new fans -- as basic cable's first best-series nominees.
For reality television, this weekend's Emmy ceremony promises heady and unprecedented attention.
TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
John Roberts, Clarence Thomas or Ruth Bader Ginsburg don't immediately come to mind when many daytime TV viewers rate their favorite jurists. Think Judy Sheindlin, Joe Brown or Marilyn Milian.
Five reality-show hosts will take center stage at Sunday's Emmy Awards, both as emcees and nominees. And just like at their day jobs, these five say they're ready for anything.
For a man once accustomed to wearing banana boots, tights and a leotard -- together -- today's choice of attire is remarkably sedate.
The mother of Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears says Jamie Lynn told her she was pregnant in a note.
O come, all ye Colbert faithful.
Start the countdown clock on MTV's countdown era: "Total Request Live" will soon shut down after 10 years on the air.
Live from New York ... it's Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin.
Never mind all those questions about who will win the election: The more pressing concern for many viewers is whether Tina Fey will return to play Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live."
Talk about a fish out of water.
When Jon Dalton was discovered by a "Survivor" casting agent at an L.A. gas station several years ago, the chance to win a million dollars wasn't the prize he most desired.
Many college students see the diploma that awaits them as their ticket to success.
