Over the weekend, Joel McHale revealed that an upcoming episode of Community—which still has no scheduled return date, so apologies for the news alert—would feature the death of a familiar character. And this is pretty much all he revealed: While it's "probably" not one of the main ...

Late last year, AMC's The Walking Dead set the record for the highest ratings for a basic cable, non-sports program. It might be fair to assume that when going up against the highest rated Grammy Awards since the '80s, the show would suffer a bit of a slump in ...

Since launching OWN, Oprah Winfrey has done everything within her estimable power to attract viewers to her struggling cable channel, short of actually airing programs that are worth watching. Last night, Winfrey employed a new strategy: openly begging via her Twitter account. “Every 1 who can please turn to OWN ...

Among the many, many topics that one should refrain from bringing up to Billy Bob Thornton in an interview, unless they want to become part of a meme, his brief, bizarre marriage to Angelina Jolie ranks up there with what sort of music he listened to as a kid or ...

Nicki Minaj’s Grammys performance—which seemed calculated to an absurd degree to offend self-important Catholic leaders who have a tendency to issue hyperbolic condemnations of trendy pop culture, thus engendering free press in the form of a contrived “controversy”—has succeeded in offending the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue ...

The spring of 2012 approaches and with it the promise, after months of seeding with rumors and watering with anguished tears and vodka, that Ghostbusters 3 will finally take root, sprouting a whole new branch of the franchise that you can then jab into your eye. And as it’s ...

Perhaps sensing that his career choices of late had lapsed into self-parody, Denzel Washington has begun considering projects that could find him briefly stepping away from being an agent or cop or something who plays by his own rules and butts heads with a younger guy. For starters, there’s ...

Ben Stiller is making some serious progress on his remake of 1947’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty—with director Ben Stiller workshopping daily with star Ben Stiller, giving him honest advice, Stiller to Stiller, and offering the sort of constructive criticism that Ben Stiller knows will get the ...

In 2010, Sylvester Stallone said that he was “99 percent sure” that he was done hiding the graying Rambo franchise behind an increasingly musty headband of contrived mercenary subplots, despite rumors that Rambo might once again be called from retirement to dispense mumbly justice to human traffickers or even genetically ...

The great Snow White war of 2012 has yet to begin, but it already claimed its first casualty (besides all of those production assistants that Julia Roberts strangled for kicks): Back in August, Disney officially modified its long-gestating Snow And The Seven—a kung fu-inflected version of the tale in ...

Whether it was due to curiosity seekers drawn in by Whitney Houston's death the night before, or the fact that Adele's 21 is the first genuine music-industry blockbuster in years, Sunday's Grammy telecast drew huge ratings, attracting the show's largest audience since 1984 and its second ...

Last week was an unusually contentious one in the world of comics (even for the normally contentious world of comics), and Friday evening brought news of one more legal battle that we saw but were like, “Damn, not another one. Let’s just talk about it on Monday.” And that ...

Still mortified by the actions of certain Liverpool ruffians, the BAFTA Awards went out of their way to celebrate The Artist last night, allowing the film to sweep more than half of the dozen categories in which it was nominated, even when it faced exceedingly British competitors such as Tinker ...

Apparently, mid-February is the new summer. There was enough audience to go around for all four of the week’s top openers, despite a spate of negative reviews for each of them. Having already coughed up $30.5 million to boost the opening weekend of his last big romantic drama ...

Officials conducted an autopsy on Whitney Houston's remains Sunday, but the cause of death officially remains unknown, and won't be determined until toxicology results come back in several weeks. Houston's body was discovered in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, and the singer had water ...