What’s On This Week
A daily updated summary of the week in TV.
Despite its over-the-top title, Killzone 2 is the best new game of this young year, and the first legitimate 2009 Game of the Year candidate.
ABC canceled the show, which was adapted from a popular British television series of the same name.
The Walt Disney Company said that a fourth installment of “High School Musical,” with new lead actors, would return the franchise to its television roots.
The first show of NBC’s “Late Night” with Jimmy Fallon as the host drew the show’s highest ratings for a Monday in more than three years.
A budgetary standoff between the comedian Sarah Silverman and Comedy Central has ended without bloodshed.
The sudden assignment of Jane Velez-Mitchell to a permanent slot in the Headline News nightly schedule became a surprising success for the network.
Some 13 million people, nearly a fifth of the French population, tune in weekly to follow the convoluted fates of the families on the soap opera “Plus Belle la Vie.”
Film and television workers are asking the state to expand, not cut, a program of tax breaks to production studios.
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Are all those "educational" videos, which claim to make baby smarter, making any difference at all?.
A dispute over money has at least temporarily brought a halt to the Comedy Central series, “The Sarah Silverman Program.”
“Jesse Stone: Thin Ice,” the fifth in a series of made-for-television movies, lifted CBS to No. 1 in the ratings on Sunday.
While Hollywood and network studios are struggling to find the future, the creators of the show “South Park” have created a visionary broadcasting model.
A new show on BET, “Harlem Heights,” will incorporate Listerine, Zyrtec, Splenda and other Johnson & Johnson products into the show.
Old-economy hits are more successful than ever, suggesting that network viewers prefer comforting comedy to high-wire satire.
“24” is going green, becoming the first “carbon neutral” television series.
In a universe where a viewer can watch anything at any time, late night hosts like Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien form a comfortably familiar united front.
On “Breaking Bad,” on AMC, a chemistry teacher turned drug manufacturer muddles through the world’s worst midlife crisis.
“DAMAGES” may be all about Glenn Close as the she-devil lawyer Patty Hewes, but no one would ever sue her for not sharing the spotlight.
The comedy team talks about how to make it in Manhattan, why New Zealanders don’t like their own accents and why the government should do its own TV show.
Hank Haney, Tiger Woods’s swing coach, recently took a stab at straightening the swing of the basketball player Charles Barkley for a new TV show.
The Internet has revolutionized society by giving anyone — including journalists — an instant and unfiltered outlet for self-expression.
The comedian joins one of the most exclusive clubs in television on Monday night, when he becomes the third host of NBC’s “Late Night.”
Networks still pull in the biggest audiences, but they are losing the cultural and the financial battle to cable.
As TV programming splinters to appeal to thinner slices of the audience, what replaces that communal experience?
“American Idol” lifted Fox to No. 1 in the ratings on Thursday night.
On Sunday on CBS, Tom Selleck returns as Jesse Stone, a small-town police chief, in “Thin Ice,” the fifth installment of a series of television movies.
NBC said on Thursday that Jerry Seinfeld is returning to the network as the producer of a prime-time series called “The Marriage Refs.”
On Thursday Fox said that it had renewed “The Simpsons” for two more seasons, confirming that the show would become the longest-running scripted prime-time TV series.
A two-hour edition of Fox’s “American Idol” featuring performances by the 12 semifinalists easily outperformed its network competitors on Wednesday.
A panel convened by the Writers Guild of America met with Jay Leno on Wednesday as part of a disciplinary process stemming from the guild’s recent strike.
Ms. Richard’s four-decade television career included roles in “Are You Being Served?” and “EastEnders.”
Plenty of stars have had stints on “ER,” but it’s the off-camera veterans who have kept the hospital humming throughout the show’s lengthy run.
“The Chris Isaak Hour” is a sort of “Inside the Actors Studio” for musicians, and it’s hard to imagine a friendlier place for a musician to drop by, chat and play a few songs.
One of the immediate repercussions of Barack Obama’s journey to the White House has been a frenzied eagerness by the news media to showcase the lives of prominent and well-to-do African-Americans.
“Being Erica,” a Canadian series on SoapNet, manages to redeem both the efforts of its home country and the channel that exists to ensure that there is virtually no time of day when it might be impossible to watch “One Life to Live.”
An hourlong edition of “The Biggest Loser” on NBC on Tuesday night attracted the series’s highest ratings among viewers 18 to 49 since its January premiere.
The most successful game developers these days are the ones that recognize that all different kinds of people now play all different kinds of games.
Conan O’Brien is bringing a big part of his past to his future role as host of “The Tonight Show”: Andy Richter.
Nickelodeon has been fighting some of the recent successes of the Disney Channel with some fairy dust of its own.
Animal Planet has pushed the genre of anthropomorphic theatrics to some kind of daffy apotheosis with “Dark Days in Monkey City.”
In another sign of how drastically the recession is forcing Madison Avenue to pinch pennies, many of the spots shown during the Academy Awards were reruns.
Ratings for the 81st Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night were up significantly over last year’s telecast, the least-watched Oscars on record.
Hugh Jackman was a shrewd, even thrifty choice for a recession-era Oscar night.
“Wreckreation Nation,” a freewheeling show on Discovery, drops its star into various odd competitions and other events around the United States.
Several reality series shown on channels better known for celebrations of frivolity and excess are embracing the idea of redemptive transformation.
The Screen Actors Guild’s board of directors on Saturday rejected the “last, best and final offer” by Hollywood producers for a new contract.
Each season on “Project Runway,” a buzzword seems to emerge from the fashion ether. This season “bummer” may be the operative word.
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Go to Blog »Many stars have had residencies on “ER,” but it’s the off-camera veterans who have kept the hospital humming throughout the show’s 15-year run.
“Slumdog Millionaire” dominated the 81st annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Calif.
The winter sport, in which horse-drawn skiers fly off ramps and around obstacles, will be featured in an upcoming episode of "Wreckreation Nation" on the Discovery Channel.
Cult favorite writer and director Joss Whedon answered reader questions about past projects and his new Fox series, “Dollhouse.”
This new episode of Grand Theft Auto IV is available for download only for the Xbox 360 via Microsoft's Xbox Live Internet service.
“High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, will be released on DVD on Tuesday.
The Bravo reality series returns for its second season on Feb. 17.
Chloe is introduced to the FBI's computers -- and the FBI is introduced to Chloe -- in this scene from Monday's episode of "24."
Call of Duty: World at War balances the exciting action of a conventional shooter game with a frank acknowledgment of war's brutality.
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The fifth season of the convoluted castaway drama begins Jan. 21 on ABC.
The intricate space saga returned to the Sci Fi Channel.
The acclaimed psych-ward drama debuted in 2000 on ABC but was canceled after only two weeks.