Ally McBeal (tv program)

A host of familiar names, including former "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek, Heather Locklear, Joe Pantoliano and Ron Livingston, are among the latest actors signing up for pilot duty. Former "Desperate Housewives" regular Steven Culp and Peter...

"Everwood" creator Greg Berlanti is stepping in, at least informally, to the showrunner void on ABC's new drama "Brothers & Sisters." Berlanti, who signed a development deal with ABC and sister studio Touchstone TV earlier this month, has been working...

Cary Elwes, recently seen as the young Pope John Paul II on CBS, is angling for his first regular role on a TV series with the NBC pilot "Sky." Elsewhere on the casting front, former "Ally McBeal" star Greg Germann and Kelly Hu ("X2") have signed onto...

Peter MacNicol, who's maybe best-known for playing John Cage on "Ally McBeal," will step into a decidedly different TV world next season. The Emmy-winning actor is joining the cast of "24" for the FOX show's sixth season, which gets underway in January....

Elegant. Powerful. Feminine. Whimsical. Four decidedly different words which, when layered atop one another, define Shirley Schmidt, Candice Bergen's stylish character on "Boston Legal." Her look says "independent" without being a maverick in a law firm...

When last we saw Calista Flockhart on television, she was dancing into the sunset as Ally McBeal. Rachel Griffiths, meanwhile, was dying under a load of old-age makeup on "Six Feet Under." Both actresses are now plotting a return to the small screen in...

The bidding war over David E. Kelley's next series project turned out be short and rather decisive. NBC has won the rights to the "Ally McBeal" and "Boston Legal" creator's new show by giving a series commitment to the project, the showbiz trade papers...

Every July, the producers and stars of all the new fall TV series, and the network executives who greenlit them, descend on a hotel in Southern California to tell a roomful of ornery critics that this is gonna be their year. Sometimes, they're even right....

Legions of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" fans mourned when Stephanie March left her role as Assistant District Attorney Alex Cabot back in 2003. The actress gave up the role because she felt she had taken Alex as far as she could -- until now, at...

As Frank Barone used to say, "holy crap." They killed Ana-Lucia. And Libby. And Nadia. And Renze. You know it's May sweeps when characters start dropping faster than Paula Abdul's tears. A look at some of the shocking things that happened last week:...

In movie roles from "Varsity Blues" to "Final Destination," Ali Larter is best known as a blonde, but sitting on the Mexico City set of "Resident Evil: Extinction," she's a redhead. "What do you think? Do you like it?" she laughs. "Do I cut a mythic...

It's a little confusing, this new NBC math that places "30" (as in "30 Rock," the network's new Tina Fey comedy) ahead of "Twenty" (that would be the John Lithgow-Jeffrey Tambor vehicle "Twenty Good Years"). But the network figures swapping the two...