Ally McBeal (tv program)

CBS presented a 2013 fall schedule Wednesday morning that adds one drama and four new comedies for fall, two of which will debut on Thursday nights. The network is expanding its Thursday comedy block into a second hour, moving “Two and a Half Men&...

Last year, when the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals curtailed the Federal Communications Commission's powers to punish networks for "fleeting expletives," many worried that network television would become a battlefield of exploding F-bombs and barely bleeped...

It seems as though actress Scarlett Johansson had no sooner sold her old place in the Hollywood Hills than she and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, closed on a house in Los Feliz for $2.9 million. Built in the late '60s, the restored Buff & Hensman-...

"Monday Mornings" might have made a good TV movie or miniseries, but the prognosis for its success as a long-running series seems doubtful. The new series (9 p.m. CT Feb. 4, TNT; 2 stars out of 4) squanders an interesting hook for a medical drama that'...

Hot seats don't come much hotter than the one at center stage of TNT's new medical series "Monday Mornings." Anchoring the drama are the morbidity and mortality forums in which doctors at fictional Chelsea General Hospital face-off against their...

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: The latest sad developments on “NCIS” pulled in viewers in a big way Tuesday night. The CBS drama was the most-watched program nationally and locally. “NCIS” averaged 22.9 million viewers, the series'...

Jamie Bamber is making good progress completing the leading-man checklist. Hotshot pilot? Check. (Apollo on Battlestar Galactica) Hotshot cop? Check. (Matt Devlin on Law & Order: UK) Hotshot doctor? Well, that’s where Tyler Wilson on Monday Mornings...

LOS ANGELES -- Kathryn Joosten, the Emmy-award-winning actress known for her roles on "The West Wing" and "Desperate Housewives," died Saturday after a lengthy struggle with lung cancer, her family said. She was 72. "Kathryn succumbed to her 11-year...

Less than three weeks after nosy neighbor Mrs. McCluskey succumbed to lung cancer on the series finale of "Desperate Housewives," Kathryn Joosten — the actress who won two Emmy Awards for portraying the television character — has died of the...

Coming this weekend: A new series from Aaron Sorkin, a Hollywood salute to Shirley MacLaine, and a two-hour interview with Rielle Hunter. Sorkin, because of his track record with “The West Wing” and “Sports Night,” delivers the...

Kathryn Joosten, best known as the cranky neighbor on "Desperate Housewives," died Saturday of lung cancer at her Westlake Village home, her daughter-in-law, Jeremy Joosten, told The Times. She was 72....

NBC has a message for "Harry's Law" fans: Well, we tried, but you folks are just too dang old for advertisers. The network made it official on Sunday and axed "Harry's Law," the drama starring Kathy Bates as a criminal lawyer entering the final act of her...