My Name is Earl (tv program)

On NBC's "Grimm," Silas Weir Mitchell plays what is essentially the big bad wolf — albeit one who would much rather restore grandfather clocks than eat grandmothers. Mitchell, who may be known to viewers from popular stints on "Prison Break,"...

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&...

Alan Kirschenbaum, 51, a television producer and comedy writer who worked on such shows as "Raising Hope," "My Name is Earl" and "Yes, Dear," which he co-created, was found dead Friday at his Burbank home. Early reports indicate he may have committed...

Tina Fey picked up the sixth Emmy of her career Saturday night with her win as guest actress in a comedy series for her portrayal of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on" Saturday Night Live." This is the fifth category Tina Fey has taken at the...

Fox's "Sons of Tucson" is a new comedy following three brothers who hire a slacker-turned-schemer to stand in as their father when the real one goes to prison. It's a premise not entirely unlike NBC's recently canned "My Name Is......

Betty White's critically praised appearance boosted "Saturday Night Live" to its best ratings in 18 months. The four-time prime-time Emmy champ certainly lived up to the hype and could be rewarded with her 17th Emmy nomination. When the Emmy Awards...

Much like its title character, "The New Adventures of Old Christine" went trolling for new matches when it got dumped by CBS. But unlike Julia Louis-Dreyfus' finally hooked-up single mom, it didn't find a new TV soul mate. The story......

Betty White was all over the tube this week promoting her new sitcom "Hot in Cleveland," which debuts on TV Land on Wednesday night. This first foray into an original sitcom for the cable net earned respectable reviews from the likes of the New York Times...

One of my favorite homegrown success stories, actory and comedian Billy Gardell, is coming back to town next week  for a couple of shows — before his new comedy series debuts on CBS. You may have seen the promos for Mike and Molly, whic...

• Brian Steinberg reports, "The price for a 30-second ad in ABC's vaunted telecast of the Academy Awards is running between $1.3 million and $1.5 million, according to media buyers, a range that tracks even with last year's prices even as a newly...

Betrayed. That's how I feel about last week's spin-off episode of "Grey's Anatomy." Here I was all "Addison is the perfect character for a spin-off" and "look, they cast my new secret boyfriend Paul Adelstein" and "oh, this could be really good." And...

NBC's much-lauded "30 Rock" and AMC's underdog show "Breaking Bad" are among the best-written TV shows of the past year, according to the people who write TV shows. Both series earned multiple nominations for the 2009 Writers Guild Awards, with "30 Rock"...