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It's about Bat-time! After being held up for decades due to brand-ownership and rights issues, the original 1966-68 Batman live-action TV series is being released on DVD and Blu-ray as a box set on Nov. 11 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. And it will be loaded up like Batman's utility belt with knockout extras, such as a complete episode guide and more than three hours of bonus features.

If Emily VanCamp gets her way, this will be one helluva final season for ABC's Revenge. Actually, the actress would have even been satisfied had last May's jaw-dropping finale spelled the end of her vengeful character Emily Thorne's (aka Amanda Clarke) three-year takedown of the conspirators she blamed for her father's false imprisonment and death. In the season ender, Emily's...

Old pals Robin Williams and Pam Dawber have found themselves sitting across from each other on a soundstage nearly 32 years after shooting the final episode of Mork & Mindy, their seminal 1970s sitcom about a hyper but lovable alien from the planet Ork who falls for a charming girl next door. "Pretty amazing, huh?" says Williams, 63. "Yeah," sighs Dawber, 62, whose guest spot marks her first acting role in 14 years. The two are shooting a scene for the April 10 episode of Williams's hit CBS comedy, The Crazy Ones, which finds his Simon trying to break things off with the travel writer he's been dating (Dawber). When Simon...

The sun is sinking behind Bates Motel's Vancouver set as cameras prepare to shoot Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) scaling the familiar stone steps leading up to her iconic hilltop home. Spying an approaching flock of crows, the director instructs Farmiga to "wait for the birds" to enter the frame before commencing her ascent. At this point, one half expects the silhouette of ...

A philandering husband with the initials J.R. A drunk Sue Ellen. A major revenge plan involving Cliff Barnes. TNT's Dallas reboot is looking more than ever the way the show did in its '80s heyday. After securely establishing its own roots over the past two seasons by introducing a compelling new generation of Ewings, producers are now freely embracing the soap's rich history.   "I think...

It's a good thing Disney's animated-movie division is continuing to crank out fresh hits like Frozen, because ABC's Once Upon a Time is burning through the studio's catalog of characters. In March, the drama will introduce Rapunzel — though executive producer Adam Horowitz is quick to point out, "We're not doing Tangled; we're doing our...

CBS recently teased that two characters will die on Under the Dome's season premiere this summer. I pushed executive producer Neal Baer to narrow down the likely hit list to...

Fox's Bones was just renewed for its 10th — and possibly final — season, and executive producer Hart Hanson already knows how he wants to wrap up the forensics drama. (He's had a plan since Season 4, he says, though he admits, "I haven't told anyone.") Leading up to...

When MTV's Awkward returns for a fourth season on April 15, it will be time for high school graduation. That means several characters will be heading off to college.

Lifetime's Devious Maids will make some sweeping changes in its second season, which premieres April 20. Three actors have been thrown down the laundry chute: Wolé Parks, whose Sam was rejected by Roselyn Sanchez's Carmen, is out, as are ...

When former CTU analyst Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) reconnects with Jack Bauer this May in Fox's 24: Live Another Day, we will learn that she has lost her child. "Chloe feels responsible for what happened because it was a result of the secrets she knows," says Rajskub, whose real-life son is 5 years old. Due to her tragic loss, expect a...

Hey, Modern Family, you just won the top comedy prizes at the Screen Actors Guild and Producers Guild awards! Where are you going next? Las Vegas and Australia! First up, it's an adults-only trip for a wild Sin City weekend. "Jay's [Ed O'Neill] client returns a favor by comping a few Mandalay Bay adjoining suites that share a butler," says executive producer Christopher Lloyd of the ABC comedy. "Claire [Julie Bowen] turns out to be a...

There's heartache ahead for Girls' Hannah (Lena Dunham) when her dying grandmother (played by Nebraska Oscar nominee June Squibb) checks into the hospital this March. "All three of my character's daughters...

Having devoted enough time to mourning the tragic Declan, Revenge's Charlotte Grayson is ready to fall in love again. And Charlotte's portrayer, Christa B. Allen, could not be more excited to begin shooting scenes with her latest leading man, newcomer Henri Esteve. 

Unlucky in love Christy (Anna Faris) is about to meet her next ex-boyfriend. On the Feb. 3 episode of CBS's Mom, Nick Zano will play David, described by executive producer Chuck Lorre as "a fireman with a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford."

Mork calling Orson, come in Orson! This news is out of this world! CBS's The Crazy Ones is reuniting Robin Williams with his Mork & Mindy wife Pam Dawber for an episode to air this spring. 

An upcoming episode of CBS's CSI will delve into the past of Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda) and introduce an influential man from his childhood.  "It turns out that as a young boy, Greg was into chess and had a mentor," reveals executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. Filling the mentor role is Emmy nominee Ron Glass, who played Det. Ron Harris on Mendelsohn's favorite '70s comedy, Barney Miller.

Now that Jay has sent Barkley the dog butler to storage, Modern Family is in need of a new manservant. English actor/writer Stephen Merchant (Hello Ladies, Life's Too Short Extras), has landed the gig.

Something that has rarely happened on MTV's The Real World in its 29 seasons goes down on this Wednesday's episode (10/9c) when one of the housemates abruptly walks out. The exit of housemate Ashley Mitchell has nothing to do with this season's 'Ex-plosion' game-changing twist that finds the roommates reunited with ex-loves. Rather, explains executive producer Jim Johnston, Mitchell had a hard time staying away from her current beau, who was living just blocks away from the Real World house in San Francisco. 

Before ABC's Modern Family heads to Australia next month, they will be taking a trip a bit closer to home. This week, the six adult cast members will go on location to Las Vegas, where they'll be joined by two high-profile guest stars.Fred Armisen, of Saturday Night Live and Portlandia fame, will play...

They've kissed and cuddled, and their Dungeons & Dragons characters had sex. But could Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) finally do the deed — or perhaps even utter the L-word — in The Big Bang Theory's Valentine's Day episode, airing Feb. 6? "It is a very big, very sweet episode for Amy and Sheldon," Bialik teases.

Before she reprises her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode VII, Carrie Fisher is putting in some TV time. The actress will play Angela Greenberg, an aggressive comedy-development exec who sets up a meeting with Jim (Jim Jefferies) on FXX's Legit later this season....