George Takei & hubby will compete as "The Newlywed Game's" first gay couple
"George and I are thrilled. It's pretty historic for us," Brad Altman, Takei's husband, says of filming the special celebrity episode.
Fox making an IRS sitcom with Ron Howard
The multicamera comedy, which will be written by an "Office" writer-director, will focus on the workplace shenanigans of an Internal Revenue Service district office.
FCC reopens Janet Jackson Super Bowl case
The commission wants to determine "whether CBS' indecency violation" in the 2004 Super Bowl "was willful."
How HBO was born again
It's been a remarkable one and a half years for HBO entertainment boss Sue Naegle, who assumed the job as the pay network was in decline. Now with "True Blood" and "Hung," HBO has been revived as a network with, as the NY Observer describes it, "an impressively electric array of idiosyncratic writers."
"The Beautiful Life: TBL" is awful, but at least it's better than "Melrose Place"
"It may lack 'Melrose Place's' flashy production values and trashy pedigree, but it makes up for that by being marginally better written, though admittedly, we're not talking about a particularly high bar here," says Robert Bianco. "Unfortunately for 'Life,' the minus side predominates. Say what you will about the relative value of trash and flash, but without them, this teen drama quickly turns so torpid and vapid, you'd think its sole goal was to reinforce model stereotypes along those lines."
Bad dialogue, acting will make you laugh // You may be sucked in against your will
What made Mischa Barton decide to return to TV?
