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Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance.

The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring reverence. Movies are projected pristinely in regal theaters, where they're greeted by the world's cinephiles with feverish excitement.

America's 100 million cable and satellite subscribers are forced to pay ever-higher bills for a growing number of channels they do not watch. The American people are being ripped off.

New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.

Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.

CBS strengthened its dominance over the television industry this year at the same time that the unprecedented reign of "American Idol" came to a close.

An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday, she lost.

PASADENA, Calif. - It's been seven years since Fox canceled the Emmy-winning comedy series "Arrested Development."

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - If you're going to make a movie that invites viewers into the outrageous world of flamboyant showman Liberace, you had better be ready to amp up the glamour and bring the bling.

PHILADELPHIA - Henry Winkler's living the kind of happy days Arthur Fonzarelli never could have dreamed of.

You may not recognize Robert Taylor as anyone other than the title character he plays on the crime drama "Longmire." But he's no newcomer.

Michael Douglas's faaaaabulous portrayal of Liberace won't be eligible for an Oscar, since the droll Steven Soderbergh-directed biopic "Behind the Candelabra" debuts Sunday on HBO before playing theatrically (and talk about theatrically!) overseas.

A North Dakota advertising agency is suing the creators of a Cartoon Network show, alleging that they copied a state marketing campaign.

Summer television used to be a wasteland, nothing but reruns and a handful of originals that weren't worthy of airing during the fall, winter or spring. But thanks largely to the ambitious and inventive offerings on cable, the TV landscape has transformed into a bountiful programming paradise.

One of the trickiest parts for an actress who plays a seductress is finding the chemistry with fellow actors to make conquests seem real.

This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week.

Blake Shelton and NBC are putting together a benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims.

Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant will be hosted by a Jonas brother and an E! News personality.

Just about every time one of the nine regular "Arrested Development" cast members has been interviewed over the last six or so years, there comes that moment, usually awkward, where the reporter pauses, shifts gears and meekly begins, "So I just have to ask ..."

LOS ANGELES - Just two days before "Arrested Development" would release its first new episodes in seven years, creator Mitchell Hurwitz called David Cross with a frantic request: Could the actor do a quick reshoot? Cross, however, was sporting a full, dyed beard for another project and looked nothing like his "Arrested" character. No matter, Hurwitz told him, "We'll figure it out." The next day the actor found himself on a hastily arranged set, filling in a gap on the series that would premiere in Hollywood the following day.

Piers Morgan is going behind the scenes.

The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself.

Robin Roberts will tell the story of her battle with a life-threatening illness in a new memoir.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 13-19. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

For the past decade, the "American Idol" season finale has been one of television's biggest events of the year. Now it's not even TV's biggest event of the week.

Two charter airplanes carrying the "Today" show anchor team and their crew from Hawaii to Yellowstone National Park were diverted in the air to Oklahoma for coverage Tuesday of the catastrophic tornado outside of Oklahoma City.

Carol Burnett, who became famous for playing a variety of characters in sketch comedy routines on her namesake television show, was named the winner of the nation's top humor prize on Tuesday.

"The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison will again emcee the Miss America Pageant this September in Atlantic City, N.J.

FRESNO, Calif. - Anne Heche is a firm believer in second chances. That's why she connects so well with the role she's playing in the new NBC series "Save Me."

Q: I enjoy watching the reruns of "Murder, She Wrote" on the Hallmark Channel, but I am puzzled by something. In the spring of 1990, Angela Lansbury did not appear in six episodes except for a short intro at the beginning of each episode. Was she doing something else for those months or was this just an attempt to sell potential pilots featuring the detectives featured in those episodes that she knew and had worked with, including Michael Hagerty, Dennis Stanton and Harry McGraw?