Jay Hernandez

Calling its 2013-14 schedule Fox’s “biggest investment in original programming in our history,” Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly on Monday presented the network’s plans to launch original shows over all 12 months of the year....

The highlights Wednesday night: "American Idol" rolls out its latest two-hour episode at 8 on Fox. The six finalists -- Lazaro Arbos, Janelle Arthur, Candice Glover, Kree Harrison, Amber Holcomb and Angie Miller -- perform two songs apiece to fill...

Chicago may have missed out on “The Dark Knight Rises” – which opted to film in Pittsburgh rather than in Chicago like the first two Batman films did – but we did get Miley Cyrus’ high school romance film “LOL.”...

Remember "LOL" -- the coming of age movie Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore briefly filmed in Chicago in September 2010? Well, it could be a while before it hits theaters. "LOL" still has no release date, according to Moore. "I really loved the movie," Moore...

ABC is making good on its pledge to return "Six Degrees" to the schedule this season. The freshman series will return to the airwaves at 9 p.m. ET Fridays starting March 23, likely for a seven-week run to complete its order of 13 episodes. Additionally,...

Someone at Disney must have accidentally slipped the marketing plans into the production notes for "Goal! The Dream Begins." The press kit reads like an advertising pitch hitting all the right points: the appeal across multiple demographics, a story...

Eva Longoria may be "Desperate" as a television housewife, but that's hardly the case in her career. One of her earliest signs of success was a 2002 ALMA Award for the CBS daytime serial "The Young and the Restless." Now she's helping to honor other...

It could be eye-opening to have film students construct a script entirely around the cautionary warnings assigned by the MPAA ratings board. Eyes are opened (and then some) in Eli Roth's latest carnival of dismemberment, "Hostel," which seems to have...

ABC, which has brought itself out of the ratings doldrums the past two seasons, apparently won't be content to coast on its successes come fall. The network is giving the green light to six new shows -- three dramas and three comedies -- for the 2006-...

Two weeks shy of its premiere on ABC, the new drama "Six Degrees" has named a new executive producer and showrunner. Ken Biller, who's worked as a writer and producer on "Smallville" and "Dark Angel," among other shows, is joining the rookie series as an...

"Torque" is a terrific action picture, fast-moving, studded with great stunts and smart enough not to take itself too seriously. Amid a plethora of high-minded, big-deal, year-end Oscar contenders, it offers a welcome contrast (and respite). The irony...

It's only fitting that "The Rookie" tells the true story of an athlete who achieved improbable success, because this is a film that overcomes considerable odds itself. Against all expectations, the Dennis Quaid-starring "Rookie" turns out to be an...