Ryan Seacrest annunces a 2-day music festival
Seacrest's announcement this morning wasn't about Jennifer Lopez returning to "Idol." It was about a new Las Vegas-set festival featuring Lady Gaga, Coldplay, The Black Eyed Peas and more musical acts. PLUS: Listen to Pia Toscano's new single.
Jaycee Dugard's interview with Diane Sawyer gets big ratings
About 14.8 million tuned in for last night's two-hour special.
K-Swiss names Kenny Powers "MFCEO"
The "Eastbound & Down" character's hostile takeover is complete.
"Lost" alum William Mapother joins Rob Lowe in "The Drew Peterson Story"
He'll play Peterson's brother in the Lifetime movie.
James Franco blames writers for his terrible Oscars
"There were a lot of cooks who shouldn't have been cooking but were allowed to," he says in an interview with Playboy. "There were some cooks my manager tried to bring in, like Judd Apatow, who wrote some very funny stuff that wasn't used."
Drunk man who trashed Letterman's theater is a failed actor
Jimmy Whittemore, 22, caused $5,000 worth of damage and is being held on $6,0000 bond.
Deidre Hall returning to "Days of our Lives"
She was dropped from the soap opera in 2009.
Coming to A&E: "American Hoggers"
The A&E reality show follows a former Texas Ranger turned hog hunter whose family hunts down wild boars.
With Season 8, "Curb" will be just as big a part of Larry David's legacy as "Seinfeld" was, says Alan Sepinwall. "Curb Your Enthusiasm," he says, "is never going to displace 'Seinfeld' as the first thing mentioned in Larry David's obituary many years from now, even though 'Curb' gave the world one of the all-time great obituary-related jokes (in the first season episode "Beloved Aunt"). But has the HBO show already done enough to accompany 'Seinfeld' in the first line of that obituary? I think it has."
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The American-set "Torchwood" is a letdown, says Mike Hale, probably due to its new association with Starz. "Miracle Day," he says, has an extreme pace. "The relentless forward motion has meant no time to dwell on the absurdities of the plot — all that has mattered are the characters, the action and the jokes," he says. "But the show has been slowed down this season and stretched out to fill those 10 hours, which means we spend too much time thinking about the story as it develops into a not very interesting allegory involving health care, death lists and big pharma."
Vince Gilligan's AMC series isn't big on the coasts. But it's huge in the middle of America, in places like Albuquerque, where it's set and Kansas City. "It gets chatter, just not among what has long been considered the chattering class," writes David Segal in a huge NY Times Magazine profile of "Breaking Bad." "His characters," Segal adds, "lead middle-American lives in a middle-American place, and they are beset with middle-American problems. They speak like middle Americans too, and they inhabit a realm of moral ambiguities that's overseen by a man with both a wicked sense of humor and a highly refined sense of right and wrong."
Sheen will assume the Jack Nicholson role in a remake of the 
