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Now comes word from musician Al Kooper that Max Weinberg has indeed ended his working relationship with Conan O'Brien, according to Zap2It.com...

Rupert Murdoch and Jonathan Burnham, consider yourself warned. Playwright Donald Margulies has assumed the role of a publishing soothsayer, and what he predicts isn't pretty...

Things are about to get a bit more musical on Fox as the network airs a musical episode of the mysterious series Fringe tonight...

Carol Burnett is a beloved comedienne and actress the world over. Highlights of her extraordinary career include the 11-season run of her hit variety show, 'The Carol Burnett Show.' In addition to her television work, Burnett also appeared in a number of feature films and Broadway productions over the years.

Tonight sees the premiere of a new ABC series, Happy Town, which takes a page from the David Lynch series Twin Peaks -- expect creepy characters and strange story lines...

Carol Burnett is a beloved comedienne and actress the world over. Highlights of her extraordinary career include the 11-season run of her hit variety show, 'The Carol Burnett Show.' In addition to her television work, Burnett also appeared in a number of feature films and Broadway productions over the years.

Hulu.com, the internet's mecca of free streaming television episodes, and the alternative to cable subscriptions for freeloading college students, is about to change things up with a paid subscription service...

Television theme music writers have been dealt a blow by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Emmy Award category that has previously recognized the main title theme song for TV shows has been nixed by the awards committee...

Broadway needs to begin taking more chances on new kinds of musicals. While 'American Idiot' shows the future of Broadway musicals, 'Million Dollar Quartet' provides the backstory to the long hard journey that the music industry took to get us to this point. Here's hoping U2 can swoop in next season with 'Spider-Man' the musical and reaffirm that rock music belongs on Broadway...

While most prime-time programming is filled with cookie cutter procedural dramas and a seemingly endless number of Law & Order spinoffs, all merely teaching kids how to dispose of a dead body, Glee has quickly turned into a show advocating for a positive change in America, even while maintaining its cotton candy sweetness...

Carol Burnett, the six-time Emmy Award-winning actress, comedienne, singer and author will appear in a special evening, 'Laughter and Reflection: A Conversation with Carol Where the Audience Asks the Questions,' at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at Hennepin Theatre Trust's State Theatre in Minneapolis.

After the reported hefty advance sales run dry, it would suit the Broadway community to dispense of The Addams Family as fast as it did that other clunky deadly musical, Young Frankenstein...

Like every other LOST fanatic, I'll be tuning in every night until ABC finally wraps up this mysterious television wonder. Only five episodes left until series finale time...

One of TV's hottest dramas, The Tudors, which also boasts a historical premise, returns to Showtime this Sunday, and if the newly released trailer is any indication of things to come, then all hell is going to break loose in King Henry VIII's kingdom...

Bravo is ready to deliver a second helping of Top Chef Masters, the spinoff of the network's popular cooking challenge show Top Chef...

After battling breast cancer, and being forced to pull out of a new series on NBC, actress Maura Tierney is ready for a return to television, this time in a role she previously played on FX's Rescue Me...

Jesse James is getting heat from every side of the pop culture and tabloid news world, rightfully so, so it might have come as a bit of a surprise to the Monster Garage star that The View's co-host Whoopi Goldberg defended him...

MSNBC darling Rachel Maddow keeps plenty of television viewers informed, and often entertained, on her nightly program -- just don't expect her to use TV as her own form of entertainment...

Now comes a lawsuit, filed by Nicollette Sheridan, alleging that Marc Cherry forcefully hit her with his hand across the face and head after the actress questioned a script element...

As Gleeks await the return of the hit series Glee, those attending the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll, and anyone tuning in online, were treated to a live performance from the singing and dancing cast...