David Arquette will appear in a guest role in the fourth episode of next season’s “Pushing Daisies,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Meanwhile, Rockmond Dunbar (“Prison Break”) will play a drag queen on “The L Word” and Benito Martinez (“The Shield”) will…
The Screen Actors Guild posted a document on its Web site outlining every significant media-related agreement this year in an effort to convince members why the studios’ most recent contract offer is insufficient, DeadlineHollywoodDaily reports. The three dozen agreements and…
Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux will have a dance-off against male dance group ACDC at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles next month, E! Online reports. An ongoing battle between Cyrus, who will host the awards, and ACDC has…
Dennis Farina, whose no-nonsense characters have been featured on shows such as “Law & Order,” pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge after being caught carrying a loaded weapon at Los Angeles International Airport, E! Online reports. Farina was given…
Amazon.com will start a video-on-demand service that allows users to stream its inventory of about 40,000 television and movie titles, the New York Times reports. The service, available to a limited number of users for at least the next few…
On-location filming in the Los Angeles area jumped 26% in the second quarter from a year earlier as producers caught up from the writers strike and stocked up for a possible actors walkout, the Hollywood Reporter says, citing permitting agency…
Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character, Denny Duquette, who was killed off at the end of the second season of “Grey’s Anatomy,” will return to the show, the Hollywood Reporter says, citing a show representative. The character became engaged to Katherine Heigl’s…
Despite a high-profile in the media business, only 15% of online Americans have even heard of Hulu.com, the NBC-Fox online video venture. But those who have used the site like it a lot. That’s the conclusion of a recent study…
Comcast Interactive Media has hired Karin Gilford as senior vice president of Fancast and online entertainment. She most recently was VP/general manager of Yahoo Entertainment. In her new role Ms. Gilford will manage Comcast’s video and entertainment Web site, Fancast,…
Jesse Jackson used a racial slur while discussing Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on Fox News, though it was not directed at Obama, TVNewser reports. Jackson said Obama was “talking down to black people” and “telling n****** how to behave,” the…