HBO and BBC are joining forces on a television adaptation of an award-winning 2009 historical novel, Deadline.com reports. The book is "Wolf Hall," which won Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize. The book follows the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the…
"X Factor" judge Simon Cowell signed up for Twitter on Wednesday and by Thursday afternoon had attracted almost 300,000 followers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In his first tweet, Cowell acknowledged "its taken a while" for him to join Twitter,…
"Demi Moore is ending her marriage to Ashton Kutcher," reports the Associated Press. The AP broke the story and had this statement from Moore, 49: "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my…
A 21-year-old Idaho man has been charged by federal authorities with attempting to assassinate President Obama, The New York Times reports. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House, the story reports. Authorities say…
With deals in the nation’s top three markets yet another talk show has been given the green light to debut in September 2012. Reads the announcement, "Twentieth Television, Inc. today announced that ‘The Ricki Lake Show,’ the new syndicated talk…
CBS confirmed today that it has ordered three more seasons of a show that has been thriving on the network for the past decade, EW.com reports. The show is “Survivor,” the longest-running reality competition series on television. The show’s 24th…
A classic cartoon character with a long history on TV and film will return to the silver screen in a modern variation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The character is Woody Woodpecker. Writers John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, the scribes…
The star of a Showtime series has received a mild sentence in a case in which he became unruly at an airport bar and wound up threatening to kill three police officers, the AFP reports. On Wednesday, a French court…
Talk about big shoes to fill. The daughter of perennial Academy Award nominee, two-time Oscar winner and two-time Emmy winner Meryl Streep has recently turned her attention to getting her own acting career off the ground, and she just got…
It’s probably unnecessary under that headline to say “spoiler alert,” but yes, this story contains a pretty big spoiler. Earlier this season on CBS’s top-rated "NCIS," a recurring character played by Sarah Jane Morris was shot and presumably killed ……