Starting next Monday the annual network upfront presentations will be made to the advertisers in New York by the major networks: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and The CW. This is the time when each network presents plans for their fall programming, announcing which existing shows will return for another season and which new shows have been picked up. Much has …

Here is your upcoming weekly TV calendar for Saturday, May 7 to May 13: Saturday, May 7: NCIS on CBS at 8 PM (Reair) NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS at 9 PM (Reair) Chase on NBC at 8 PM (NEW) Law & Order: Los Angeles on NBC at 9 PM (Reair) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC at …

Here is your lengthy box office news for the week of May 2 to 6: Actors Dean O’Gorman (Xena: Warrior Princess) and Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies) have joined the cast of the upcoming two-part movie The Hobbit. O’Gorman will play Fili the Dwarf while Pace will play the Elven King Thrandruil. Meanwhile, actor Hugo Weaving will reprise his of Elrond …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS The USA Network Fairly Legal has been renewed for a second season with 13 episodes. But there is rumor that the show could undergo creative changes in the new season. Lifetime has renewed Army Wives for a sixth season. Bones has been renewed for a 7th season on …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on producer and writer Diane Ademu-John. Diane is a graduate of the University of London as well as a graduate of Georgetown University. She got her started in the entertainment industry working on the popular medical drama Crossing Jordan as a story editor and writer from 2001 to 2003. The following year …

After 15 years of television history, the Stargate franchise will come to an end next Monday (May 9) when the final incarnation – Stargate: Universe – airs its series finale on Syfy at 9 PM. Once that last episode is aired there will be no more shows based on the Stargate legacy nor will there be any movies either. This …

Here is what you can look forward to seeing on the major and cable channels throughout May, including all the season/series finales, some returning shows as well as made-for-TV movies: May 1 – Law & Order: Criminal Intent and In Plain Sight will return with new episodes on the USA Network at 9 and 10 PM respectively May 6 – …

Here is your upcoming weekly TV calendar for Saturday, April 30 to May 6: Saturday, April 30: Criminal Minds on CBS at 9 PM (Reair) Chase on NBC at 8 PM (NEW) Law & Order: Los Angeles on NBC at 9 PM (Reair) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC at 10 PM (Reair) Doctor Who on BBC America …

Here is your box office news for the week of April 25 to 29: Actress Mireille Enos (The Killing) will play the wife of Brad Pitt in the upcoming film World War Z, which is an adaptation of the Max Brooks novel that is set ten years after a global zombie epidemic. Brad Pitt is playing a U.N. worker collecting …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS The new Showtime period piece The Borgias has been given a second season order for 10 episodes. Production of Season 2 will begin in the summer for a 2012 premiere. Oscar-winner Irons stars as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of the Borgia family who builds an empire …