A casting competition for a new version of Disney Channel's High School Musical will be among eight unscripted series that ABC says it will carry this summer. High School Musical: Summer Session is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, July 20
Connecticut-born director Jules Dassin , who achieved his greatest fame after being blacklisted in the U.S. in the 1950s and becoming an exile abroad, has died in Athens at the age of 96. After leaving the U.S., he initially moved
With all No. 1 seeds making it to the Final Four in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, CBS is hoping that ratings for March Madness will be given a significant lift in April. They are down an average of 7
The average 30-second spot on a network TV show during the first three months of this year cost $125,634, down 12 percent from the same period a year ago, according to New York media shop TargetCast and reported in today's
The teaser billboard campaign to promote Universal 's upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall , produced by Judd Apatow , is drawing much praise from advertising executives, considerable comment from bloggers, and even some viral parodies. In an item headlined "You Win
Paris Hilton is the most "overexposed" celebrity in America, according to a survey by Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research and reported by Forbes magazine on its website Monday. She is followed on the list by Britney Spears , Lindsay Lohan
Major city newspapers and local TV blogs were reporting what appeared to be coordinated layoffs at CBS -owned stations all over the country Monday. The New York Daily News reported that WCBS-TV had laid off veteran correspondents Scott Weinberger and
Longtime couple Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have taken out a marriage license. The pair, who began dating in 2002, successfully applied for the licence in Scarsdale, New York on Tuesday morning, according to website People.com. Knowles and Jay-Z - real
Martin Scorsese 's Shine a Light , a documentary featuring a concert performance by The Rolling Stones , will open on 93 IMAX screens Friday -- the largest number of the giant-screen venues ever to exhibit a movie, edging out
Box office forecasters crapped out over the weekend as the film they had bet on to lead the competition came in third and a film they had expected to flop wound up at the top. In fact, Sony's gambling movie
Actress Kelly Lynch is confident her Road House co-star Patrick Swayze will emerge triumphant in his cancer battle, because he is the "most determined, positive person" she has ever met. The 49-year-old became firm friends with the Dirty Dancing hunk
Veteran actor Max Baer Jr. has spoken for the first time about the moment he discovered his 30-year-old girlfriend had shot herself in the chest in January. The Beverly Hillbillies star, 70, called emergency services after he found Chere Rhodes
Dirty Sexy Money star Samaire Armstrong has slammed reports she's been fired from the hit TV show after suffering "personal issues" last year - insisting her role is a recurring one. The former The OC star checked into an "outpatient
The recent premiere of Jodie Foster 's new movie Nim's Island marked the first time the actress' two children were allowed into a screening of one of their mother's films. Foster's kids, Charles, nine, and Kit, six, were forbidden from
A woman who was ordered to stay away from Hollywood actor John Cusack has been arrested on suspicion of stalking the star and violating a restraining order. Authorities were called to the High Fidelity star's Malibu, California, neighborhood on Sunday
TV talk show king Jay Leno has apologized for asking actor Ryan Phillippe to give him his "gayest look" during his late-night show. Stop-Loss star Phillippe spoke to Leno about his first paid acting role as a gay teen on
Friends With Money star Jennifer Aniston has teamed up with Hollywood producer Kristin Hahn to create her own film company. The actress co-founded movie production firm Plan B Entertainment with her ex-husband Brad Pitt , but decided to part ways
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has once again been forced to deny reports she is expecting her first child. The Ghost Whisperer star has been at the centre of pregnancy rumors since she was pictured in a bikini last year sporting
Patrick Dempsey has signed up as the face of a new men's fragrance for beauty giant Avon. The Made Of Honor star will front the as-yet-unnamed scent, which is set to be launched globally next year, in a deal reported
