Recaps

Here are the entertainment news items for this week: NEWS Kim Raver has been added as a regular on Grey’s Anatomy only two months after she joined the medical drama as a recurring character. She is expected to appear in all but one of the show’s remaining episodes this season. NBC has plans to renew Law & Order for a …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week, which was a light news week because of the holiday: NEWS After a marathon two-day negotiating session, FOX and Time Warner Cable executives on Friday have come to terms on the contentious retransmission consent agreement that threatened to knock numerous Fox channels off Time Warner Cable systems. CASTING SCOOP Mayim Bialik …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (December 14 to December 18): CONDOLENCES Pioneering televangelist Oral Roberts passed away after suffering a fall near his California home. He was 91. Legendary actress Jennifer Jones passed away this week at the age of 90. She appeared in the movies Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and The Song of Bernadette …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (November 30 to December 4): NEWS The new FX series Lawman, starring Timothy Olyphant has been changed to Justified and is still expected to air sometime this spring. TNT has cancelled the Steven Bochco drama Raising the Bar; however, the remaining three episodes will still air, but air dates have yet …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (November 23 to 27): NEWS The Producers Guild of America will honor Joss Whedon with the 2010 Vanguard Award on Sunday, January 24. USA Network has renewed Burn Notice for a fourth season. The smash hit is slated to return with the second half of its third season in January. The …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (November 16 to 20): CONDOLENCES British star of stage and screen, Edward Woodward (The Equalizer) passed away after being hospitalized in the U.K. for an unspecified illness at the age of 79. Ken Ober, the comedian best-known for hosting MTV‘s late-’80s game show Remote Control passed away at the age of …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (November 9 to 13): NOTE: Typically the weekly round-ups are posted each Friday evening or early Saturday morning, but unforeseen circumstances delayed that from happening this week. NEWS It looks like Balthazar Getty is trying to get his full-time series-regular gig back at Brothers & Sisters. Word has it that new show …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (November 2 to 6): NEWS As expected, TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series Southland, airing all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series’ first season with the episodes starting to air on January 12. 90210 executive producer …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (October 26 to 30): NEWS A nationwide mall tour will be held from November 6 to 19 featuring the cast of the upcoming movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon. [Yes, you read that correctly!] The stops will include prize giveaways, Q&A’s with the cast members and other surprises. A select group …

Here are the entertainment news items for this week (October 12 to 16): CONDOLENCES 1960s comedian Soupy Sales (aka Milton Supman) passed away in New York on Thursday.  He was 83. NEWS FOX has confirmed that Joss Whedon is set to direct an upcoming episode of Glee.  However, don’t expect new episodes of the musicomedy to start airing again until …