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.
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.
The new TV season's official start date -- September 21 -- is almost two weeks away, but one of the most anticipated shows, "90210," has already arrived.
Should this world ever cease to exist, Stephen Colbert will live on.
Since being diagnosed with brain cancer, Robert Novak has lost partial vision and undergone surgery to remove a tumor, the conservative political commentator wrote in a column published Saturday.
After seeing what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for environmental awareness, Hollywood producer Laura Ziskin wanted to make a documentary about cancer, a disease she has fought since 2004.
America, meet Russell Brand.
Dr. Mark Greene is coming back to "ER," but he's not coming back from the dead.
David Letterman wants to stick with CBS' "Late Show" through his contract -- and maybe longer -- as rival Jay Leno prepares to surrender the "Tonight" reins next year.
Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and reported the chaotic scene live on the air, has died at 75.
Lee Goldberg thinks Glen A. Larson is a genius, and not because the prolific television writer and producer gave us "Knight Rider" and "B.J. and the Bear."
At any given time, J.J. Abrams has an awful lot on his mind: He's the producer, writer and co-creator of ABC's hit series "Lost," and the writer and director of the return of "Star Trek" to the big screen.
On one side of the "Raising the Bar" soundstage is a sterile office space punctuated with old phones, metal filing cabinets and stacks of papers. On the other side: a far less drab enclave accented with modern office furniture, frosted glass partitions and minimalist Macs.
Jennifer Aniston will make a return visit to NBC, the TV network where she became a breakout star on "Friends."
Not quite a spin-off (though that's what The CW is calling it), and not really a remake or a sequel: This is the new "Beverly Hills 90210," albeit with a fresh look and a shorter name -- "90210."
David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.
The competition among TV networks, movie studios and A-list stars can be fierce, but the fight against cancer will unite them on September 5.
It was seven more golden days for NBC last week, radiant with Olympics coverage that brought the sort of ratings victory a network dreams of.
Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz are stuck in a Mini Cooper, just steps from where East meets West.
Scooching in between Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson sounds intimidating, if not a little scary.
Scoot over, Simon Cowell. "American Idol" is adding a fourth critic to its panel of judges.
Susan Lucci, Toni Braxton and Lance Bass will hit the floor on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and the cast of the CW's "90210" toasted the teen drama's return to television Saturday night at a lavish invitation-only beachside premiere party.
Comedian Chris Kattan's marriage to his model wife lasted almost as long as a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
Ed McMahon is on the move.
Stage actors love theater. Film actors see movies. Musicians dig concerts by their fellow musicians. But TV performers just don't seem to catch much TV, according to an unofficial survey spanning years of interviews I've had with them.
Junior Mints, Yoo-hoo, Drake's Coffee Cakes, puffy shirts: These are all things Jerry Seinfeld has endorsed -- at least in his alter ego on his classic sitcom. Now, add Microsoft software.
They're not a singing group but they play one on TV -- and very successfully, we might add. But don't even begin to get into it about whether the Cheetah Girls are friends in real life.
NBC is enjoying a taste of what superstar swimmer Michael Phelps savored last week: a clean sweep.
His hair will always be in place, he doesn't mind if you touch the leather and he's far too heavy to jump the shark.
As the red light switched off and her program went into a commercial, Laura Ingraham's face dissolved from a smile into a frown -- then, a look of pure disgust.
Christina Applegate is taking the long view of her battle with breast cancer -- the really long view.
Turn on the TV: There's Comfort, lunging backward like it's the forward thing to do, and Gev twirling on his head, b-boy style. Kourtni pirouettes bare foot as smooth as a turntable.
An ex-NFL player and his estranged wife, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and her actor brother, recent divorcees, a pair of Southern belles and fraternity brothers are among the 11 two-person teams hurrying for the finish line -- and the $1 million grand prize -- on the upcoming 13th edition of CBS' "The Amazing Race."
British tabloid celebrity Jade Goody has been diagnosed with cancer and will leave India, where she is filming a reality show, to receive treatment in London, television officials said Tuesday.
Can't Michael Phelps stay? Please?
The most memorable moments in television history will be revealed during the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards next month, and it's up to voters to decide which bits should take top honors.
An open casting call for "All My Children" is far from business as usual: The soap opera is seeking an Iraq war veteran to play an injured veteran.
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" has solved the mystery of who will replace departing CBS series star William Petersen: It's Laurence Fishburne.
There was much dancing: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are married, according to reports.
Prosecutors have filed felony drug charges against Craig Phillip Robinson, an actor best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on NBC's "The Office."
Donald Trump will soon be Ed McMahon's landlord.
J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a "Dallas" reunion party.
Foreign correspondence on the fake news of "The Daily Show" usually amounts to someone standing in front of a video screen on the New York set, a few steps away from Jon Stewart's desk.
Paris Hilton didn't do enough pledging for a 2006 sorority comedy, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
"Gutter balls only, please!" someone yells during a rehearsal at the Lucky Strike bowling alley for the CW's new series "90210." So co-stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes downplay their bowling skills.
The father of "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere was arrested early Monday on suspicion of hitting his wife, authorities said.
Dick Clark is still Mr. New Year's Eve -- but he'll be sharing the title with Ryan Seacrest.
Bernie Brillstein, a Hollywood talent agent, manager, producer and studio head who over half a century guided the careers of "Saturday Night Live" comedians and helped package a slew of TV and movie hits, has died. He was 77.
Many years ago, during an oil crisis, Chevrolet announced a new car was coming.
A day before the Olympics kick off in Beijing, NBC Universal announced it has garnered more than $1 billion in advertising revenue for the event for which it spent $894 million to acquire the U.S. broadcast and digital rights.
With strong sales and equally powerful praise, the July issue of Italian Vogue can be judged a resounding success.
Dinosaurs can be challenging co-stars. Especially when you can't see them.
Marriage gets little respect on network TV shows that instead revel in the pleasures of extramarital and even kinky sex, according to a study released Tuesday.
A Texas mother of five is the new "Nashville Star."
