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Full hearts, teary eyes: DirecTV announced Thursday that the fifth season of "Friday Night Lights" will be the acclaimed show's last. The fifth and final season will air starting Oct. 27 on DirecTV; that season will then air at some point in 2011 on NBC....

Apr 26 (TheWrap.com) - An Indiana man is claiming that he led Tyler Perry into "Temptation" -- and now he wants payback from the filmmaker. Writer William James of Gary, Ind., filed a lawsuit against Perry in U.S. District Court in Indiana on Wednesday,...

The thing that made Tyler Perry rich is much in evidence in "Tyler Perry's Temptation." It was called "Confessions of a Marriage Counselor" when he toured with it on stage. There's no Madea here. But the women are beautiful, serious about clothes,...

This post has been corrected. See note below for details. Renée Taylor is a very funny lady known for such comedic roles as Eva Braun in Mel Brooks' 1968 classic "The Producers," Fran Drescher's ultimate Jewish mother on "The Nanny" and Brian Benben's...

Say what you want about the man and his films, but Tyler Perry is nothing if not unshakably Tyler Perry. The air of self-assurance bordering on arrogance that wafts from movie after movie as he confidently delivers his specific blend of light comedy and...

Kim Kardashian has landed a role in the new Tyler Perry film "The Marriage Counselor. Kim Kardashian will play Ava, a friend and coworker of the lead character, in Tyler Perry's 'The Marriage Counselor.'...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 19 – 25 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here SERIES Undercovers: A pair of CIA agents turned caterers (Boris Kodjoe,......

Season premieres of "Friday Night Lights" feel a bit like the first day of school. There's a nervous tentativeness that hangs over the show. New characters are introduced, and one gets the sense that everyone is by and large on......

It takes a special girl to inspire a guy to trade a pig for her. But Beckly Sproles is worth far more than a boar to Luke Cafferty. If that sounds like some sort of joke, it isn't. There are......

There's a moment in a "Friday Night Lights" season when everything -- almost everything, at least -- seems to click. The point last season, for instance, when Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly) came back to Dillon, Texas, and illustrated the maturity......

As "Friday Night Lights" moves into the meat of its final, 13-episode season, this week's Show Tracker will take a slightly different format. Below is a look at some of this season's major storylines, and what has -- and hasn't......

Friday November 7, 1997      There has never been a film quite like Kasi Lemmons' shimmering "Eve's Bayou." There have been plenty of mood pieces about white Southerners, usually decadent types, and there have been films about hardships of oppressed...