When Bill Paxton first heard the pitch for HBO's Big Love, his reaction was one of incredulity. Read more

Ron Howard's The Dilemma presents the viewer with one. Is it OK to laugh at what was plainly intended as a relationship comedy? Because the best scenes in this Vince Vaughn/Kevin James buddy picture where one buddy's wife is cheating on him and the other buddy finds ou... Read more

The fourth season of Big Love, which ended in March, took a lot of heat from critics and even star Chloë Sevigny, who called the season "awful" in an interview with The Onion's A.V. Club (she later recanted). Most of the complaints had ... Read more

Television history is littered with the rotting corpses of British series that didn't make the transition in their zombified American forms. For every All in the Family or The Office, whose American counterparts ... Read more

As Chase star Kelli Giddish joins the show crew at Texas Motor Speedway, where the North Texas-filmed drama is shooting some scenes on a cold December morning, she's accompanied by two dogs: Pepper, a black Lab belonging to co-star Cole Hauser, and Frannie, Giddish's d... Read more

Many, including writer-director Sofia Coppola herself, have noted that Coppola's Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette and now Somewhere take place in either literal or (in the case of Versailles) metaphoric hote... Read more

FORT WORTH -- Rashaun Sibley, wearing a Texas Christian University purple Snuggie for warmth, stood for hours in 40-degree downtown Fort Worth weather Saturday in hopes of winning an eventual part on the hit Fox TV show Glee. Read more

It's a familiar story: A former boxing great, his glory fading and his money running out, starts making desperate moves to support his family. Some are innocuous, such as the local TV commercials that capitalize on his fame; some are less so, such as his occasional beating of a guy who hasn't pai... Read more

There is a down-home comfort saturating Country Strong, in that "somebody done somebody wrong song" way, that almost carries you through when its music-drenched melodrama gets predictable. Which is pretty much as soon as the fragile, still-in-rehab country superstar pl... Read more

So here's the gimmick in Season of the Witch: It takes place during the 14th century, but everyone speaks in contemporary language, which might have been acceptable if the dialogue were clever or intelligent or funny or, you know, good. Read more

The Glee Project, the working title of a reality show set to air on Oxygen in June, is coming to Fort Worth's Norris Conference Center on Saturday and Sunday to give "underdogs" a chance to compete for a multiepisode guest-starring role on the hit Fox TV series Read more

By the time Friends ended in 2004, the cast members had spent roughly a quarter of their lives on the show, so maybe it's not surprising that so many of them have chosen TV shows about TV among their post- Friends Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Dreamy vampires, a surly doctor and a rapper in Recovery are top winners at the People's Choice Awards. Read more

Like its subject, this exhausting and yet exhilarating movie is a bit of a paradox, but don't miss it. Read more

Every smarty-pants knows that the millennium wasn't over until 2001, which means our new millennium, new century and new decade started then as well. As we look back at the past 10 years, it's amazing how the usurpation of data power, the refining of fringe media and interactive technology has ch... Read more

Every superhero saga needs a fan-pleasing arsenal. Does NBC's 'The Cape' have what it takes? Read more

An unusual thing happened last Thursday: As far as we can tell, there were no TV-series debuts or season premieres. That doesn't happen very often these days, when there's usually at least one new or returning show every day of the week -- and often, several of those shows. Read more

NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey's network has begun not with a bang but with redeclared purpose by the Queen of Daytime for her new round-the-clock cable channel venture. Read more

R (strong language, brief sexuality); 113 min. Read more

For Scott Wolf, one of the stars of V, ABC's alien-invasion drama, it's exciting to do a TV series that's chock-full of "big ideas." Read more