Today in show business news: Jennifer Hudson might become an American Idol judge, Jon Stewart finds a leading man for his risky directing debut, and Tom Cruise walks away from a movie.
Yesterday CBS made their overhaul of The Early Show official, formally announcing Erica Hill, Gayle King, and Charlie Rose as their new hosts and positioning the morning show, which will get a new name, as a real-news alternative to Today and Good Morning America's chipper fluff.
Ringer has found its sense of humor, its inner silliness, and has thus become an enjoyable Tuesday treat.
Chelsea Handler signs a new deal, the Oscars are charging a lot for ads, NBC ditches a good show (not Community), and Bethenny Frankel is in trouble.
NBC has pulled their cult hit from midseason, leaving it with an uncertain future. What happened?
While many watched Bob Costas interview Jerry Sandusky last night, ABC was airing something far more uplifting.
A sexy tennis pro loses a job, the little girl from Mad Men gets one, and two new shows look very, very bad.
An international trailer for the upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady has been released, and it presents itself as a stirring King's Speech (meets Evita?) style drama about a populist hero overcoming adversity. Wait. Are we talking about the same Margaret Thatcher here?
Holy Haymitch, it's here. The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Hunger Games movie, based on the hugely successful book series, has arrived! And it looks good!
We're glad that the heretofore listless season of The Walking Dead got interesting last night.
Paul Bettany has been declared an expert in the art of love, Ben Stiller's wife gets her shot, and The Early Show will never be the same.
Friday means movies are opening, which means movie reviews! Today we cover a Werner Herzog documentary about capital punishment and an Adam Sandler movie about plain old regular punishment.
Let's imagine a scenario in which maybe, just maybe, you watch a certain television program about vampires and their diaries.
It's almost time to go nuts about Twilight again, it's almost time to be civilly excited about The Hunger Games, and Ricky Gervais wants back in.
Universal has released the first trailer for next June's fairytale actioner Snow White and the Huntsman, a swooping special effects-heavy re-imagining that marks the first feature film from commercial director Rupert Sanders. It looks interesting!
It's now official that Brian Grazer, spiky-headed producer of roughly a billion movies, has stepped in to replace the disgraced Brett Ratner as producer of next year's big, glittery Republican National Convention Oscars ceremony. This is a good choice!
Today we're looking at an unpleasantly unsettling scene on FX's American Horror Story. Spoilers abound, so proceed with caution.
Kelly Ripa will be on television forever, a first look at the new Snow White, and Jessica Chastain continues her reign, quite literally.
Less than a day after Brett Ratner resigned from his post as a producer of next year's Oscars ceremony amid some unfortunate soundbite controversy, his chosen host Eddie Murphy has pulled out as well. So everyone is forced to wonder: Who's gonna host the damn Oscars now?? Luckily, we have some ideas.
Bil Keane, who created the popular Family Circus newspaper cartoon strip in 1960, has passed away at age 89, reports to the AP.
Brett Ratner quit! The Oscars are saved! But is Brett Ratner? And, actually, are the Oscars?
Last night saw the unveiling of a "controversial," sex-filled episode of Glee that wound up being pretty darn good.
Jennie Garth is heading back to TV, Britney Spears' manager has a strange new client, and Regis announces his send-off guests.
HBO just passed on Téa Leoni's new show, which is a shame. She, and these nine other actors, deserve their own show.
Brett Ratner has been on a bit of an apology tour over the past couple days for saying stupid things, and it's all very embarrassing. For Ratner, sure, but also for the Academy.
A substance-fueled reality mystery was finally addressed last night.
NBC is in deep trouble, but maybe Hannibal Lecter can save them; Justin Bieber wins Christmas; and Leo DiCaprio gets his revenge.
MGM has bought the rights to Where's Waldo?, the illustrated kids book series in which the goal is to find the striped shirt-sporting hero in a crowd, and we have some suggestions on how to adapt.
In a surprise victory, DreamWorks' Puss in Boots won the weekend for the second time in a row, besting the A-list comedy Tower Heist by nearly $10 million.
Brett Ratner is as unpleasant as ever, perhaps even more so; Kristen Stewart just gets too into it sometimes; and Megan Mullally gets a gig.
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic J. Edgar premiered last night in Los Angeles, which means the early reviews are in. Let's take a look!
Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank has certainly made a few good choices in her life, otherwise she might still be known as simply that girl from that Karate Kid movie, but she also has a knack for career-careening catastrophes.
Today: Ryan Seacrest wears so many hats he needs a new closet (it's pretty full as is!), HBO makes Brooklyn one very happy borough, and Warner Bros. makes a very bad decision.
America's deep and sadly abiding fascination with the spending of money will obviously never die completely -- we're too wish-based a society for that -- but might there be hope that something like Occupy Wall Street could, in some moderately significant way, at least change current tastes in pop culture?
Last night was the season premiere of Top Chef: Texas, the latest installment of Bravo's excellent cooking competition series, and it was so exciting—mostly because someone was eliminated, like, every three seconds.
It seems there's a New York poets group chiefly populated by young attractive gay men (and their rich older benefactors) looking to get it on. Alas, you're not invited.
Now that nearly all the new shows of the fall TV season have premiered (Once Upon a Time and Grimm both unmagically limped onto the scene last week), let's take a look at who we like the best right now. From listless New Yorkers to men with half a face, these are our favorite TV characters right now.
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