Veteran comedian Zhao Benshan and his protege Xiao Shenyang Xiao Shenyang poses backstage the rehearsal of the 2010 CCTV gala With less than ten days to go before the Spring Festival gala, popular comedian Xiao Shenyang has finally secured his prese

Actor Orlando Bloom attends a meeting with city officials in Sarajevo August 12, 2008.(AP Photo) Orlando Bloom will play the lead in The Good Doctor, an indie drama for which Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and

Cable giant Comcast and NBC Universal said on Thursday they would continue reporting news, keep broadcast television free and offer more children's programing if the U.S. government approves Comcast's plan to take control of the TV and movie company.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has scheduled a full season of eight productions for its 2010-11 season, but will cut the total number of performances to 68 for economic reasons. Lyric general director Bill Mason announced the cutback from this season's 77 pe

NFL conference championships were huge television draws for Fox and CBS. The overtime thriller between New Orleans and Minnesota, sending the Saints to their first Super Bowl, was seen by 57.9 million people Sunday, the Nielsen Co. said. It was the m

ABC Family is close to ordering a series based on Sasha Paley's young-adult novel Huge, a project described as Glee meets Ugly Betty. My So-Called Life creator Winnie Holzman wrote the script with her daughter, Savannah Dooley. The untitled light dra

James Marsden has signed on to star opposite Russell Brand in I Hop, a live-action/computer-animated hybrid comedy. Tim Hill, who directed the hybrid Alvin and the Chipmunks, is pushing his resume into hipper territory with this tale of an out-of-wor

California's film and television incentive program is projected to generate more than 710 million dollars of additional production spending in the state this year, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday. The program was part of the economic s