Since debuting in 2007, Mad Men has single-handedly made the '60s cool again, but the show may skip ahead to the present day for Don Draper's final curtain call. "I do know how the whole show ends," series creator Matthew Weiner told Grantland. "It came to me in the middle of last season. I always felt like it would be the experience of human life. And human life has a destination. It doesn't mean...
Another Bachelor couple bites the dust! Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl have broken up after dating for nine months. "Yes, Vienna and I have split. It's been 5 weeks now. I can't fake it anymore...
He's hosted the Emmys and the Tonys. Now Neil Patrick Harris is going to co-host Live!. Harris, 38, is the latest celebrity set to be...
Last Man Standing will soon have a new man in charge, Deadline reports. Series creator Jack Burditt has asked to leave the Tim Allen comedy after suffering a family tragedy earlier this year. Kevin Abbott is set to take over following the Thanksgiving holiday. Reba McEntire plots return to TV on ABC comedy Burditt had been on an...
The sitcom with nine lives — CBS' Rules of Engagement — will be moved off the schedule once again to make way for Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider's new series, ¡ROB!, CBS announced Monday. ¡ROB!, which follows...
NBC will bench Community to make room for returning comedy 30 Rock on Thursdays, and has set a premiere date for new series The Firm and Are You There, Chelsea? The network also announced Monday that its upcoming musical drama Smash will debut on Monday, Feb. 6 at 10/9c following the second episode of The Voice. NBC orders The Firm to series Part of a massive Thursday-night overhaul...
Oprah Winfrey can add yet another title to her resume: Oscar winner. The former talk show host, who was nominated for 1985's The Color Purple, received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, given for philanthropic efforts. "I never imagined receiving an Oscar, especially for doing what is part of my calling, part of my...
Immortals slaughtered the box office competition in its first weekend of release, grossing an estimated $32 million, Box Office Mojo reports. Adam Sandler's latest film, Jack and Jill, laughed up $26 million in its opening weekend. In its third week out, Puss in Boots was nipping at...
Michele Bachmann's campaign claims it has proof that CBS snubbed the Minnesota congresswoman during the latest Republican presidential debate. Keith Nahigian, her campaign manager, posted an e-mail on her official Facebook page that was accidentally sent to the campaign from CBS News political analyst John Dickerson. In response to an e-mail about Bachmann appearing on a CBS webshow, Dickerson wrote, "let's keep it loose though since she's not going to get many questions and...
Justin Timberlake made good on his promise to attend a Marine Corps ball, Richmond's CBS affiliate reports. Timberlake was asked to attend by Cpl. Kelsey De Santis, a Quantico, Va.-based Marine, via YouTube over the summer, and he...
She's American, but Emma Stone played host to a British invasion when she hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time. Besides musical guest Coldplay, Andrew Garfield made an appearance during her monologue when Stone had to break the news to Andy Samberg that Garfield, a Brit, will be playing the role of Spider-Man in next year's The Amazing Spider-Man film. "America is suffering record unemployment and we outsource Spider-Man to...
Shock jock Howard Stern is in "serious negotiations" to join America's Got Talent as a judge, The Wall Street Journal reports. Stern, 57, would take home a...
He's mastered the tribal council, but can Jeff Probst rule daytime? The longtime Survivor host will officially debut his new daytime talk show, Jeff Probst, in the fall of 2012, CBS Television Distribution announced Thursday. Jeff Probst inks daytime deal with CBS The syndicated show has already been sold in more than 55 percent of the country for next fall. Hosted and executive-produced by Probst, the self-titled show will cover everything from...
All My Children has already left the TV airwaves, but are the residents of Pine Valley headed for a more permanent (and unexpected) ending? Plans to continue the ABC soap online in 2012 have been put on hold, ABC Soaps In Depth reports. All My Children: How did it all end? Prospect Park, the company behind the online productions of both All My Children and One Life to Live, has decided that it only needs...
Weeds just keeps coming back. Showtime has renewed the stoner dramedy for an eighth season to premiere sometime next year, the cable network announced Thursday. Watch clips from Weeds Last season, which jumped ahead three years, saw Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) restart her pot-selling business in New York City and reunite with the rest of the Botwin clan (plus Doug) after her stint in federal prison for the murder of Pilar. The season ended on a...
Psych's Shawn (James Roday) has always been a little on the quirky side, but it looks like he many have finally gotten himself committed. In Wednesday's episode, titled "Shawn, Interrupted" — an homage to the 1999 girls-gone-actually-crazy film Girl, Interrupted — Shawn must admit himself to a mental institution to keep an eye on a recently convicted murderer who pleaded insanity but they suspect to be completely, well, sane. But before he and Gus catch the bad guy, Shawn's got to...
Charlie Rose and Gayle King will join CBS's The Early Show when the morning news program undergoes a major revamp next year, The New York Times reports. The new two-hour format would go against...
Billy Crystal will host the Oscars for a ninth time, the comedian announced Thursday. "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions," Crystal tweeted. "Looking forward to the show." Brian Grazer to replace Brett Ratner as Oscars producer; Eddie Murphy steps down News of Crystal's involvement with the 84th annual Academy Awards comes one day after...
Piers Morgan is leaving NBC's America's Got Talent after six seasons to focus on his CNN show, Piers Morgan Tonight. "I'm leaving America's Got Talent after 6 wonderful years. Turned out that juggling's harder than it looks, so I'm going to focus on CNN," Morgan tweeted late Wednesday. " Big thanks to NBC, Fremantle, and of course, my friend Simon Cowell, for giving me such a great opportunity. It's been a...
Brothers & Sisters alum Matt Letscher and Curb Your Enthusiasm's J.B. Smoove have joined the NBC midseason comedy, Bent, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. From Scrubs writer Tad Quill, Bent follows Alex (Amanda Peet), a high-strung single mother who hires a laid-back womanizing construction worker, Pete (David Walton), to...
More than 20 years after TV viewers first met Capt. Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) on Law & Order, the actor — not to mention fans — still doesn't quite have his character figured out. And he wouldn't have it any other way. "I always like when the writers throw a curve ball or when I discover something new because playing a character like this, to me, is like hanging out with a really good friend," Florek tells TVGuide.com. "I would never presume that I know everything about him." Exclusive sneak peek: SVU's Captain Cragen is ready to go undercover Florek will learn a lot more about his "friend" on Wednesday's episode of Law & Order: SVU (airing at 10/9c on NBC) when Cragen volunteers to go undercover as a man seeking a mail-order Russian bride. Although ADA Cabot (Stephanie March) is quick to warn the captain not to get emotionally involved with his fake date, that proves much easier said than done. "When you go undercover, one of the key things you have to do is play a character as close to yourself as possible so you don't get caught up in...
With Regis Philbin set to leave Live with Regis and Kelly next week, his co-anchor Kelly Ripa has signed a new five-year deal to stay on the daytime show, Deadline reports. Ripa's new contract will take affect when her deal expires in...
