Ally McBeal (tv program)

Before I begin, I would like to issue a memo to NBC: it was cute (sort of) the first time you mocked the fact that you have two new series about behind-the-scenes at a "Saturday Night Live" type show. But now enough is enough and you need to stop. Thank...

Let's just get this out of the way: Tina Fey has seen "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." "I watched the first one," Fey says of Aaron Sorkin's backstage-at-a-sketch-comedy-show show. "I think it looks very fancy, and Bradley Whitford is cute." "Studio 60"...

What would happen if you took a group of "Surreal Life"-level stars and gave them guns? CBS aims to find out starting this January when the network premieres the new reality show "Armed & Famous" in the Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET time period. In "Armed &...

A bad day for Jack Bauer is a good thing for Kiefer Sutherland. Keeping its now-traditional pattern, the FOX suspense series "24" has waited until the new year to launch its sixth season. On the added strength of its five recent Emmy wins -- including...

Marti Noxon, a former writer and executive producer of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is setting down stakes at a new home. Noxon, who's currently serving as a consulting producer on FOX's "Prison Break," has signed a two-year deal with Touchstone TV. As...

ABC's "Ugly Betty" continues to load up on the guest stars, signing Lucy Liu and Jerry O'Connell for February sweeps appearances. Liu ("Charlie's Angels," "Kill Bill: Vol. 1") will appear in two episodes of the Golden Globe-winning ABC series,...

The four well-dressed, well-kept women have the air about them. A glance reveals these women can whip out their gold cards and buy designer clothes, not waiting for sales. Unlike other women lunching in a Manhattan restaurant, where a meal costs what...

Christina Ricci has committed to a guest-starring arc on TNT's "Saving Grace." TNT announced on Monday (July 14) that Ricci will do a three-episode on the hit angel-talking drama playing the temporary partner to Holly Hunter's Grace Hanadarko. The cable...

Wilmer Valderrama is expected to return to his FOX roots as the star of the one-hour comedy pilot "The Emancipation of Ernesto." According to the industry trades, FOX has ordered a pilot for "Emancipation," which was written by "Emily's Reasons Why Not"...

At some point during the second season of "Ugly Betty," creator-executive producer Silvio Horta felt the show's operatic shenanigans had gotten out of control. A little too telenovela, if you will. "There was one episode where Betty was talking to a...

Matt Kimbrough, a burly 49-year-old Silver Lake actor, can run through the highlights of his two-decade Hollywood career in a few minutes of scattered videotape. Look closely. There he is as the bartender in "Erin Brockovich." Don't blink. He's playing...

Confronted for the first time with a staggering drop in advertising revenue, all four major broadcast television networks are contemplating sweeping changes to the face of prime-time programming. Network executives say they are determined to slash...