Two Four characters on NBC's "Smash" are expected to leave the show -- and we suspect fans are not going to be disappointed.
It was last fall when EW originally broke the news that pop superstar Gloria Estefan would be appearing on "Glee" as Santana's mother, Maribel Lopez.
NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" live final couldn't withstand ABC's telecast of the Billboard Music Awards.
For years, Kurt Sutter has told stories of criminal activity -- first as a writer for "The Shield" and then as the creator of FX's wildly popular "Sons of Anarchy," a dramatized version of an outlaw biker gang in California.
Three Thursday night dramas were greeted with larger audiences for their final episodes of the season, but one NBC comedy tied its all-time low.
Betty White's recent roast was handled with more delicacy than most.
With the fall TV schedule now complete, we get to step back and take a look at the hellish battleground that broadcast hath wrought.
More than any year in recent memory, the survival of shows this season did not hinge on ratings.
"Dancing With the Stars" will launch its first-ever all-star edition this fall.
Singing competition shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice" don't only make stars, they rehabilitate them.
Fox has renewed its Sunday reality kingpin "Family Guy," as well as another Seth MacFarlane title, "American Dad."
When Entertainment Weekly published the first trailer of USA Network's new series "Common Law" in November on its website, readers were abuzz with excitement.
"Jeopardy!" has announced the line-up of celebrities who will participate in the special "Power Players Week" tournament.
Fresh from taping the first season of FX's "Anger Management," Brett Butler has already lined up a new gig: She's going to guest star on a CBS soap!
NBC is going to the White House for laughs this fall.
"The Borgias" are back for a second season and according to star Jeremy Irons we can expect even more nefarious plotting and lustful encounters.
HBO's "Luck" continues to solidify its position as an ironically titled TV show.
Seven seasons into judging "America's Best Dance Crew," JC Chasez likes to "go into it fresh every week."
Ashton Kutcher is set to return to CBS' "Two and a Half Men."
Last week, EW was on the scene for the reunion taping of "RuPaul's Drag Race: Reunited," which will air this evening at 9 p.m. on Logo.
In 1988, the West Coast hip-hop group N.W.A released a provocative song called "F**k tha Police," which stirred controversy and marked it as one of the most high-profile examples of tension between the black community in Los Angeles and authorities.
In the new HBO comedy "Veep," Anna Chlumsky plays the young chief of staff to the Vice President of the United States played by ex-"Seinfeld" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
At a listening party in London last night, Justin Bieber told reporters that one of the many new songs that could appear on his upcoming album, "Believe," was about Mariah Yeater, the woman who falsely accused him of fathering her child, the BBC reports.
HBO is renewing "Real Time with Bill Maher" for two more years.
Stephen King's fantasy novel "Eyes of the Dragon" could at last become a movie or miniseries.
One of the odder, funnier moments of "Mad Men" came recently when two head honchos, Lane Pryce and Pete Campbell, duked it out in a conference room.
Reality programs have long featured contestants of color in their casts.
EW has confirmed that "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Sheree Whitfield will no longer be with the show after this season.
It's like "Deal or No Deal" crossed with your own holiday party game.
On the heels of reports that NBC is considering a creative restart on "The Office," comes last night's ratings: The comedy veteran fell to a series low while facing a repeat of CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" in the 9 p.m. hour.
This week's episode of "How I Met Your Mother" featured a pretty unforgettable smile-inducing kicker.
Fox may have passed up the chance to develop "Modern Family" a few years back, but they still have Ed O'Neill's other big sitcom hit in the vault.
If there's one thing that TV Land sitcoms are known for besides their old-school laughs, it's their genius stunt casting of television faves.
The question of whether AMC will indeed split the final season of Breaking Bad is close to an official verdict.
Ashton Kutcher may be one of the highest paid actors on TV right now but he hasn't forgotten his roots: EW has learned exclusively that the star of "Two and a Half Men" will join Mila Kunis, Laura Prepon and Wilmer Valderrama for a "That '70s Show" reunion during Fox's 25th Anniversary Special, airing April 22 on the network.
The May upfronts are just around the corner! Death is nigh, my friends!
Last year, "Game of Thrones" became a breakout hit for HBO, turning George R.R. Martin's fantasy novel into an epic show that pleased diehard fans of the book while pulling in a wider audience with ample servings of sex, violence and intrigue to rival "The Sopranos," "Boardwalk Empire" and "True Blood."
Coming soon to your TV: a high-stakes recipe contest for home cooks, a giant boxing glove that knocks players into icy water and challenges carried out entirely in the dark.
After a 17-month absence, a heavy marketing campaign and a flood of adoring publicity, TV's most critically acclaimed drama returned Sunday night to record ratings.
Three big names have just signed on for guest roles in Mindy Kaling's promising Fox comedy pilot.
When we last saw actress Amanda Peet during primetime, it was on NBC's drama, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
"Doctor Who" executive producer Stephen Moffat announced that actress Jenna-Louise Coleman will play Matt Smith's new companion following the departure of Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill later this year.
"Game of Thrones," the wonderfully bloody and lustful series, is back for a second season starting April 1 on HBO.
"Law & Order: SVU" costar Stephanie March has just landed a key role in a CBS drama pilot.
"Mad Men" showrunner Matthew Weiner has always been a stickler for detail, but his latest bid for period accuracy is pretty stringent even by his own high standards.
Awww. No offense to high school volleyball player Shannon Magrane (I totally just teared up watching her famous baseball dad's proud-papa reaction to her highlight reel), but I'm glad someone went home last night. After Top 12 contestant Jermaine Jones was disqualified on Wednesday, I thought the whole week might be a wash.
Whether you're into fashion design, the culinary arts or watching famous pop stars make and break the dreams of hopeful singers, reality programming offers something for everyone.
Filming that does not involve horses will continue on HBO's critical fave "Luck" while the American Humane Association investigates the death of a third animal on the show's Southern California set.
The most influential show in the history of television never finished a season among the 20 most popular programs in the Nielsen ratings.
Welcome back to another round of EW.com's "American Idol" Power List -- in which I attempt to predict how America will vote for the finalists and you all disagree with me and post your own ranking, and it's okay because none of us plebes are fortune-tellers and the only being who knows exactly what will happen is celestial mouthpiece Ryan Seacrest.
In "Happily Divorced" Fran Drescher plays Fran, a Los Angeles florist who is learning to navigate the dating scene after her husband (named Peter) announces he is gay after nearly 20 years of marriage.
Lionel Richie's got once, twice, three times the friends you do.
Lindsay Lohan's NBC-mediated mini-comeback continues!
When "The Simpsons" recently reached its 500th episode, it did something no TV show had accomplished in 40 years.
Last night's results show spanned an exhausting two hours, but luckily Ryan Seacrest was able to keep the telecast as fresh as the yellow rose on Randy Jackson's sweater by trying out various intonations of his favorite term ("the nationwide vote") and one of life's eternal questions, "WHO WILL FILL THESE STOOLS?" It's Ryan's time to shine, so don't even think about trying to plow him over, Brielldozer Von Huge Mistake!
For the past two seasons, Daniela Ruah has played junior field agent Kensi Blye on "NCIS: Los Angeles." But the vivacious olive-skinned actress first became famous in another country: her parents' homeland of Portugal. She even won the Iberian version of "Dancing with the Stars."
Welcome to the live shows! We've got an all-new American Idol set featuring a giant spacecraft-y oval that reminds me a little too much of The X Factor, and some wind-machined amber waves of grain behind Ryan to remind us of how easy breezy beautiful representative of America he is. (Noted.)
"Glee's" winter finale featured a story line surrounding former bully Karofsky (Max Adler), who attempted suicide after finding himself the target of gay bullying.
The upcoming season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" could be the most difficult yet for the popular series.
Martin Lawrence could be coming back to prime-time TV next fall.
The second season finale of PBS' "Downton Abbey" posted the network's biggest audience in nearly three years.
The latest name thrown in the ring for an "X Factor" judges spot: Singer LeAnn Rimes.
In anticipation of Sunday's Academy Awards telecast on ABC, EW talked to Executive Producer Don Mischer about host Billy Crystal, what went wrong with last year's show, and how challenging it is to wrap the show in three hours.
Great new for "Community" fans! The comedy is returning to NBC's Thursday night lineup.
Well ... you can't say "Cougar Town's" cast and producers didn't try.
One of the more compelling aspects of AMC's "The Walking Dead" comes with watching a band of survivors try to figure out what right and wrong means in this new, zombie plague world they inhabit.
Oprah Winfrey took to Twitter last night to ask Nielsen viewers to watch her cable network OWN, drawing criticism from some followers and investigative scrutiny from the ratings measurement company.
There's nothing like Valentine's Day to make single women feel insecure about their solo statuses.
The changes to Fox's singing competition shows have only just begun.
Selma Blair ("Kath & Kim") has landed the female lead role in Charlie Sheen's new FX comedy "Anger Management."
A TV series' 100th episode signifies success and, in most cases, a profitable afterlife in syndication.
TNT's "Franklin & Bash's" second season is getting a boost from actors from "American Pie" and "Nurse Jackie."
Mob wives, devious maids and a magical Manhattan are among the pilot ideas just ordered by ABC.
Having watched as countless contestants said their goodbyes on season 1 of "The X Factor," judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones will now do the same, without so much as a highlight reel to play them off.
They've been separated for about a year-and-a-half , but Courteney Cox and David Arquette are proving once again they have no hard feelings.
Table flipping. Hair pulling. Name calling. Glass chucking. Fist throwing.
After watching Kim Richards' bizarre behavior on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" for months, we finally know the reason the reality TV star was acting strangely, and why she checked into rehab in early December.
When he co-founded Harborside Health Center, the world's largest medicinal-cannabis dispensary, located in Oakland, California, five years ago, Steve DeAngelo's goal was to provide a safe, comfortable, organized alternative to what he saw as a broken system in the state, professional thugs on one side, irresponsible stoners on the other.
Though "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" are history, "General Hospital" -- for now -- is firmly ensconced in ABC's daytime lineup.
For an awards show that's not the Oscars, the 2012 Golden Globes attracted a good amount of attention.
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