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The Hollywood Reporter's best of the week
The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week: THE HOLLYWOOD MATH BEHIND HOW LINDSAY LOHAN'S 'THE CANYONS' WILL MAKE MONEY Even ...
'Argo,' Lawrence, Day-Lewis win at SAG
The CIA thriller "Argo" continues to steamroll through awards season, winning the top honor for overall cast performance at the Screen Actors Guild ...
Ray Romano to perform at Garden of Laughs event
While everybody loves Raymond, it's stand-up comedy that Ray Romano loves most. The 55-year-old actor-comedian says performing live is his passion, ...
Rolin Jones writes a 'big 'ol dumb comedy'
Playwright Rolin Jones is not one to really brag, but he thinks he's made history with his latest work. "I feel fairly confident I've written the ...
Sirius XM Radio creating Comedy Central channel
Sirius XM Radio and Comedy Central are teaming up to create a new channel on the satellite radio service devoted to showcasing the television ...
Big night for cable TV in Globes
The taut political thriller "Homeland," the coming of age comedy "Girls" and "Game Change," the movie about Sarah Palin's rocky campaign for the vice ...
CBS welcoming actor Angus Jones back to comedy
The teenage actor Angus T. Jones is expected back at "Two and a Half Men" next week, with CBS accepting his apology for calling the popular comedy ...
People's Choice Awards a feast for 'Hunger Games'
"The Hunger Games" devoured the competition at the People's Choice Awards, emerging the top victor with five trophies. Katy Perry won three awards at ...
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler ready for Golden Globes show
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are ready to crack each other up at the Golden Globe Awards. The two multi-hyphenate talents offered a taste of their ...
'Downton,' 'Girls,' 'Idol' and more this January
Where once the post-holiday schedule was a blizzard of chilly reruns, January is aburst with premieres and finales. Already, the adored British ...
Michael J. Fox to play newscaster in new NBC show
On his upcoming NBC comedy, Michael J. Fox will play a newscaster who had quit his job due to Parkinson's Disease but returns to work in the show's ...
NBC's Greenblatt rebuilds network long in disarray
The world didn't end as some predicted last month. Even more remarkably, NBC demonstrated it just might have a future. No wonder Robert Greenblatt is ...
Egypt prosecutors investigate popular TV comedian
Egyptian prosecutors launched an investigation on Tuesday against a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting the president in the latest ...
New drama, returning comedy scheduled for CBS
CBS is giving a special platform to a new cop drama that it will premiere in February. The drama, "Golden Boy," features Theo James as the youngest ...
Chatting with 'Hot in Cleveland's comedy quartet
Sure, three's a crowd. But four is a hoot. Just consider the stars of "Hot in Cleveland," four funny ladies who would look right at home carved in the ...
CBS comedy 'Big Bang Theory' hits ratings high
CBS is getting a bigger bang out of its most popular comedy. "The Big Bang Theory" set a series record with 17.6 million viewers last week, the ...
'The Performers' goes limp and will close Sunday
Broadway and porn apparently don't mix: "The Performers," a new comedy that opened this week at the Longacre Theatre, won't make it through the week.
'30 Rock' heroine Liz Lemon to wed this month
Liz Lemon is getting married and you're invited. Fans of "30 Rock" might have reasonably assumed that Lemon, the harried TV producer played by Tina ...
'Community,' White House sitcom in new NBC lineup
NBC is making room for "Community" on its midseason schedule, along with a new comedy set in the White House and a dating series produced by former ...
Key and Peele find laughs in racial quandaries
As a comedy team, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are very funny. As guys who both lay claim to biracial status (black fathers, white mothers), ...
Tracing odds on next TV show to get the ax
Watch out, Fox. The Cancellation Bear is gaining on you. The website TV By the Numbers is making sport out of predicting which television series will ...
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler to host Golden Globes
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are teaming up for the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Dick Clark Productions and NBC announced ...
Comic opens set for ages: 'Hello. I have cancer.'
A frightfully nervous Tig Notaro stood just offstage at the Los Angeles club Largo while Ed Helms introduced her. The audience of 300 and Notaro's ...
Encouraging ratings start for NBC in new season
It may not qualify as a revolution, but after years of relentless bad news in the ratings, NBC has opened the new television season with some positive ...
NBC regroups under Comcast with new cuts, spending
NBC slashes Jay Leno's "Tonight" pay in half, but forks out more than $8 billion to renew its broadcast rights to Sunday Night Football. Rumors swirl ...