By Michael Hiltzik
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is poised to greenlight the proposed merger of the big cable company...
By Scott Timberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times
From horseback, he gazes out across parks and boulevards all over the American South. He lends his name to high schools, colleges and the...
By Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Univision Communications is becoming a potent rival to English-language networks, which have long dominated prime-time viewership.
By Melissa Maerz and Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times
In 1996, when Al Jerome first signed on as the president of KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, he had grand plans for the station. A...
By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times
NBC Universal won't be ringing in the new year as part of the Comcast Corp. family.
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times
The estimated 29 million Americans who play in fantasy football leagues are helping the NFL's TV ratings to a record year. That includes the...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
The former governor mixes politics and TV well. Maybe too well..
By Miles Beller, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Splat.
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
Largely favoring the usual suspects, Golden Globe voters sang the praises of Fox's "Glee" for the second year in a row, awarding five...
By Greg Braxton and Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times
Mark Wahlberg scored a knockout with the Golden Globes.
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
When Edie Falco won an Emmy for outstanding actress in a comedy for her role in "Nurse Jackie" earlier this year, she looked not only...
By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
Noted journalist Laura Ling became an international cause célèbre last year when she and colleague Euna Lee were held captive in...
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
On Wednesday, Barack Obama, the president of the United States, will appear on "...
By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
This is not an easy day for Martha Stewart. Sitting in her Manhattan office, surrounded by sparkling walls of ribbons, puff-paints, glitters...
Soon it will be time to measure the Oprah bounce.
By Christopher Smith, Special to the Los Angeles Times
You don't find many bromances on TV these days. Apart from the flashy excesses of youthful ambition on " Entourage," male camaraderie as a...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
My 12-year-old son recently informed me that he didn't much see the point of black-and-white movies, and I realized this horrifying state of...
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
There is something touching about the fact that " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1" opened in mid-November. It's the...
By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
None of the diners at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood dove under the tables as Michael Kenneth Williams strode past late last month. But...
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
Now that Conan O'Brien has come to rest, presumably for more than seven months, as the host of a TBS talk show, it seems like a good time to...