Television
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Darrell Hammond takes over for Don Pardo on 'SNL'Sep 17, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - A familiar face - former cast member Darrell Hammond - is taking over for a familiar voice at "Saturday Night Live." The show announced Thursday that Hammond,...
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Netflix gets 'Love' comedy from Judd ApatowSep 17, 2014 1:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Netflix says filmmaker Judd Apatow co-created a new series that will take a frank, comic look at modern relationships. Netflix said Tuesday it has made a t...
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Spectacle, legacy inspire Chicago tightrope walkSep 17, 2014 1:00 am - Nik Wallenda is all about spectacle, a showman who crossed Niagara Falls and an Arizona gorge on a high wire and now has his sights on Chicago's iconic skyscrapers — par...
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Jacques Pepin says no slowing down as show endsSep 16, 2014 6:00 am - Jacques Pepin soon will begin production on what his longtime television network is calling his final cooking series, but the chef who has taught generations of American...
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Pediatric patients find hidden joys of life on Fox's 'Red Band Society'Sep 16, 2014 5:00 am - “Family” can have many meanings, and television is giving it a new one when it comes to those in a Los Angeles hospital's pediatric ward. Debuting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, S...
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Rihanna song pulled from NFL show after singer's TweetSep 16, 2014 1:01 am - CBS and Rihanna are parting ways over the network's decision to yank the pop star's music from "Thursday Night Football" last week. The network said today it's dropping ...
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Netflix, built on 'House of Cards,' tested by European showsSep 16, 2014 1:00 am - The investigators of the crime series “Tatort” will be unfamiliar to most viewers in the U.S. Not so in Germany, where the decades-old show has a hundred times more pull...
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Emanuel says students met reading goal; Fallon should pick a venueSep 15, 2014 11:00 pm - CHICAGO — Chicago Public School students read 2.7 million books this summer as part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Readers Summer Learning Challenge, officials announced Monday...
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Nik Wallenda to tightrope walk over Chicago RiverSep 15, 2014 11:00 pm - CHICAGO - Daredevil Nik Wallenda said Tuesday that his next tightrope walk will be more than 50 stories high from one high-rise building to another over the Chicago Rive...
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'The Real' promises to live up to its nameSep 15, 2014 5:30 am - LOS ANGELES - Sitting down for an interview about the new talk show "The Real," the hosts don't censor themselves. They snack on junk food. They have a lot to say. It's ...