Dan Futterman

NEW YORK (AP) — The scene: Tehran's Mehrabad airport, January 1980. Six U.S. diplomats, disguised as a fake sci-fi film crew, are about to fly to freedom with their CIA escorts. But suddenly there's a moment of panic in what had been a smooth trip...

The 10 p.m. Sunday slot offers a lot of intriguing choices. The Closing Ceremony of the Summer Olympics will be airing on NBC. Then there are all the dramas: AMC's “Breaking Bad,” possibly the best show going these days. Lifetime's beloved &#...

And there's more drama. The caper drama "Leverage" starts its new season at 8 p.m. Sunday on TNT. On Sunday, there are new episodes of "True Blood" and "The Newsroom" on HBO, "Drop Dead Diva" and "Army Wives" on Lifetime, and "Falling Skies" on TNT....

Since my preview of the third season on HBO's "In Treatment," I've been getting emails asking about a weekly discussion session.As much as I love this series, I have to be honest, I don't know if there are enough fans to make it worth our while the way...

For a TV series neither set nor filmed in Baltimore, the city sure plays a prominent role in the Peabody Award-winning HBO drama "In Treatment." And the off-camera roots of the program about the work and life of a brooding, emotionally wounded...

I finally caught up with HBO's "In Treatment' after getting through my print duties for the Sun. So, let's get a holiday thread going.(And please stop back later today or tomorrow when I post an interview with "Ace of Cakes" star Duff Goldman that I did...

I loved "In Treatment" this season. And I am crazy about the final shot of Paul walking away and disappearing into a Brooklyn street scene.I feel like I have issues with the way each of the four final episodes ended, but I hate endings and separation. I...

When "Capote" started making the rounds of film festivals, all the media coverage agreed upon one thing: Playing the author Truman Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman was a lock for this year's Best Actor Oscar. That sort of got lost as Joaquin Phoenix and...

Complete list of nominees of the 78th annual Academy Awards. BEST PICTURE "Brokeback Mountain," Diana Ossana and James Schamus, producers "Capote," Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, producers "Crash," Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman,...

ABC's "Brothers & Sisters," which has the plum post-"Desperate Housewives" spot this fall, is undergoing some more behind-the-scenes upheaval with the departure of its showrunner only a few weeks into production. Marti Noxon, the former "Buffy the...

We'd say that Dakota Fanning is too young to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but as long as she swears she wouldn't have voted for "Crash," it's all good. Fanning, the 12-year-old star of "War of the Worlds" and...

What a bunch of poseurs, thought Josh Olson, when he first stepped foot inside the Bourgeois Pig. The screenwriter was visiting this Hollywood cappuccino bar with a friend, and all around were "punks sitting there with laptops," Olson says. "Pretenders....