By Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times
Towering above her pint-sized cohort in blue suede heels, Heidi Klum was doing what she does best: seducing the camera.
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times
Conventional wisdom holds that in a time of budget rollbacks and a glut of media, Hollywood's A-list talent pool is operating with...
A look at actor Charlie Sheen's legal and personal troubles:
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from New York —
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
The excitement with which journalists and political pundits anticipated Tuesday's State of the Union address was so unexpectedly poignant it...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
There is nothing more democratic in this country than network television. Regardless of taste, artistic merit or critical response, the...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
— Do you have to be bad to be a good TV talent show judge? Up until now, that's been the thinking behind "American Idol," home of...
By Joe Flint and Meg James, Los Angeles Times
The federal government approved Comcast Corp.'s bid to take control of NBC Universal, creating a new media behemoth that puts under one roof...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski and Meg James, Los Angeles Times
To paraphrase Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert, "Hollywood, we have a problem."
By Scott Timberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Clad in a blue plaid suit and bow tie, his bald pate nearly scraping the ceiling, whippet-thin crime novelist James Ellroy is launching into...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
The opposite of dull and deferential is not snotty and abusive.
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
Television has been around so long now — more than 60 years in the commercial form we know today — that to many of its viewers...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
—"Piers Makes Enemy of Madonna." That's the newspaper headline that's pinned above Piers Morgan's desk, as if it were an inspirational...
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
The wonderful Kathy Bates, lately seen around NBC in a recurring role on "The Office," settles into an office of her own Monday as the...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
From the beginning, which is to say Charles Dickens, stories revolving around the lives of children and adolescents often shared a similar...
By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
Mommie-Not-So-Dearest triumphed over "The Good Wife."
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
I watch TV on a 20-year-old, 21-inch Panasonic television set with a single RF input into which I run a DVD player, a VHS machine and a...
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times
When "American Idol" returns for its 10th season on Fox Jan. 19, it will have two fresh (and very famous) faces at the judges' table. And it...