3rd Rock from the Sun did not exactly blast off into Nielsen's stratosphere during the series' finale Tuesday night. Overnight ratings indicated that the final episode scored an 8.7 rating and a 13 share in the 8 p.m. hour. While that figure put it...
Chinese composer Ning Yong has told CBC Radio in Toronto that he is planning to sue Sony Pictures for using his composition, "Camel Bell in Silk Dragon," in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon without his permission. The Canadian broadcasting outlet...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) plans to hold its movie awards next year prior to the Oscars as it did -- for the first time -- this year, the organization announced Tuesday. BAFTA Chairman Simon Relph told Screen...
The national executive director of Canada's main actors' union, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) said Tuesday that his union will support the Screen Actors Guild's demands that actors hired by Canadian...
New York filmmakers Rob and Web Stone have agreed to turn over "suitcases of documents" to Woody Allen that could prove to be helpful in Allen's law suit against his former friend and producer, Jean Doumanian, New York Post columnist Neal Travis...
Appearing to depart from the strict code of prerelease secrecy that surrounds Steven Spielberg movies, costar Jude Law has discussed his role in A.I. with Premiere magazine, revealing that the android character, named Gigolo Joe, was created to...
Charging in effect that Warner Bros. had cooked the books to deprive them of their legitimate profits from last year's re-release of The Exorcist, writer William Blatty and director William Friedkin have sued the studio, demanding more than percent...
A judge in Stamford, Conn., has turned down a request by Court TV to allow it to cover the trial of Michael Skakel, the nephew of Robert Kennedy who is charged with murdering a childhood friend, Martha Moxley, 25 years ago in Greenwich. In...
One third of NBC's programming during the summer months will consist of original programs, the network said Tuesday. While a large portion of that percentage will be represented by new editions of its Dateline news magazine and its game show The...
Setting off renewed speculation that EchoStar Communications, which operates the DISH-TV satellite service, is getting set to bid for rival DirecTV, the company said Tuesday that it may use proceeds from a $1-billion note offering to make...
Sunday's season finale of The Sopranos on HBO was watched by 9.5 million viewers, beating the figure for last year's finale, which attracted 9 million viewers, but falling behind the numbers pulled in for the first two episodes this season...
After airing a slew of season finales on its Must-See TV night on Thursday -- and without the competition of CBS's Survivor or the drag of the XFL-- NBC returned to the top of the Nielsen list last week for the first time in seven weeks with an...
Jerry Seinfeld's request that reporters and TV news crews keep away when he makes two appearances in Boston's Wang Theatre Thursday has evoked both support and criticism from other stand-up comics currently performing in Boston, the Boston Herald...
