Ben Fritz and Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
Paramount Pictures' "Rango," a family movie about a chameleon sheriff in the Wild West voiced by Johnny Depp, marks the studio's entry...
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times
Charlie Sheen has been far too busy with his at-home drug rehab project lately to spend much time reading, say, his contract. But he seems...
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
I am far past childhood, but I still like watching TV made for kids. Some of this is out of professional interest, obviously, but in the...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
"Jeopardy!" has a new champion, and its name is Watson.
By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
Forest Whitaker has built a career on channeling the souls of troubled characters. From his guest-star turns on "ER" and "The Shield," where...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan is recovering in an American hospital this week after being sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob in...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
How much trouble is Charlie Sheen worth? It's a question that CBS can't escape lately, as the star of the network's most-watched sitcom...
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
The Disney Channel programming block formerly known as Playhouse Disney and now rebranded as Disney Junior, to what imagined benefit I don't...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
When you get your first chance to go to the Oscars, you're bound to have questions — perhaps about the red carpet scene or whether you...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
Sitcom pilots are almost always stagy and awkward. So much to do (introduce the characters, spill a little back story, insert tension and...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
Tom Selleck says he's scared.
By Josh Gajewski, Special to the Los Angeles Times
The producer had just sent the e-mail to Rob Lowe and was a little nervous. "Look, we wrote this crazy thing, I totally understand if you...
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times
Now that Keith Olbermann has joined Current TV, the question is whether the combative liberal firebrand can help elevate the 6-year-old...
By Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times
Aggressive cost-cutting produced dividends for Walt Disney Co.'s movie studio, as its operating income jumped more than 50% on moderate...
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
By Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times
Newly relaunched Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is finalizing a deal for Sony Pictures to handle worldwide distribution of its movies and DVDs and...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
The way Simon Cowell has been acting since Sunday night, you'd think he won the Super Bowl. Before a massive audience of Packers and...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
In the good news/bad news category, the pilot for Fox's new romantic situation comedy "Traffic Light" is not great, but it is the weakest of...