In a development that’s being trumpeted in newspapers, broadsides, and other forms of media no longer preferred by the viewership of CBS, preliminary reports have the Tiffany Network unseating Fox from the ratings throne it has occupied for eight years. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, CBS will take the ...

Proving that even the guy who directed Antichrist has limits to what he's willing to subject moviegoers to, one of the producers of Lars Von Trier's upcoming, two-part Nymphomaniac told The Hollywood Reporter yesterday that Shia LaBeouf will not, as previously reported, be giving his manhood an onscreen ...

Ricky Gervais’ new series Derek will make its Netflix debut September 12. The series, which Gervais writes, directs, executive produces, and stars in, follows a mentally challenged man living in a nursing home. As previously reported, Derek aired in the UK to initial controversy but later garnered generally favorable reviews ...

Today in “water is wet” news: Brian May hates The Voice. The Queen guitarist says the show—he’s talking about the U.K. version, but his feelings would probably carry over to the U.S. version as well—“is absolutely the dullest, dumbest, most depressing programme on TV,” and ...

Ang Lee has officially backed out of directing the upcoming Tyrant pilot for FX. The political drama created by Homeland’s Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff and Six Feet Under’s Craig Wright centers around an American family in the Middle East and would have been Lee's first project ...

The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan has long been famous for his teeth or, rather, for the lack thereof. A lifetime of drinking, drugging, and smoking has resulted in the loss of literally all the frontman’s teeth, but he’s taken to Twitter to find a dentist to give him a ...

The Clash is no stranger to having its albums reissued, repackaged, and repurposed, so it's inevitable that the band is finally getting the box set treatment. Housed inside a boombox-shaped box, Sound System will compile the band's seminal albums on CD with three discs of B-sides and outtakes ...

As the post-Splash reality show hoists its weary body from the pool and towels off, Louie Anderson-style, the question of “What’s next?” looms on the horizon, also Louie Anderson-style. How about some more singing shows? How about some more celebrities? Wait—how about singing celebrities? (Certainly no more ...

According to a statement first posted on The Doors’ official Facebook fan page, founding member Ray Manzarek has died after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer. Manzarek was 74. 

Manzarek co-founded The Doors with Jim Morrison after a chance encounter on Venice Beach, not long after the two had ...

In a surprise move, the BBC has decided not to cancel Doctor Who without warning, just to make its approaching 50th anniversary all the more meaningful. Indeed, that celebration will now be robbed of the heightened emotions that only deep, wounded mourning can provide, and will simply have to make ...

As promised by the recent dumping of Star Wars: The Clone Wars from Cartoon Network and of Ahmed Best into the heart of the ocean, Disney is really looking to move away from the Star Wars prequel universe in all aspects of the franchise—even the animated part that was ...

It’s been months since we last heard Dan Aykroyd discuss details for Ghostbusters 3, then ignored those details in favor of doing literally anything else, such as accepting that the past is the past and growing as people. Yet Aykroyd is still out there nattering into the void, this ...

It turns out that when Seth MacFarlane preemptively refused to host the Oscars again, he wasn’t just whistling “Dixie” (“Dixie” being the name of a girl whose boobs he saw). “Traumatized critics exhale: I'm unable to do the Oscars again,” MacFarlane tweeted today, officially putting to rest the ...

After kicking Scott Weiland to the Vaseline-covered curb earlier this year, Stone Temple Pilots have enlisted Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington as a replacement. Bennington joined STP on stage at KROQ’s Weenie Roast this weekend to perform an eight-song set—including one new tune, “Out Of Time,” you can ...

After months in which the press struggled to find something interesting in Justin Bieber wearing a gas mask, abandoning his monkey to German prison, and inducting the ghost of Anne Frank into his fan club, last night’s Billboard Music Awards finally spawned a far more compelling Justin Bieber story ...