Maureen Ryan

Network suits spend weeks, if not months, agonizing over which shows will go where on their fall schedules. But by 2010, according to the consulting firm the Yankee Group, 48...

Hours after "Stargate SG-1's" acclaimed 200th episode aired Aug. 18, word emerged that Sci Fi Channel had axed the long-running show. The network confirmed the news Monday. "Having achieved so...

"CSI: NY" is joining the stampede to the bedroom. CBS has announced that Claire Forlani is joining the "CSI: NY" cast as a medical examiner and the lover of Detective...

When we last left the "Entourage" posse, things were looking very grim indeed for hot young actor Vince Chase. In last week's "Entourage," Vince's dinner meeting with a studio head...

There was sad news for fans of Oak Park native Kathy Griffin on Wednesday. Not only did news emerge that Griffin, the star of Bravo's "Kathy Griffin: My Life on...

What to watch -- and what to skip -- this Father's Day weekend: Don't miss "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation" 7 p.m. Sunday, Cinemax: This year's Academy...

Think our culture is spelling-obsessed? Consider the wealth of bee-related media: There's the play "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," the recent movie "Akeelah and the Bee," the 2005...

How do you like your "American Idol" power ballad--horribly bland or bland but mildly catchy? Depending on who wins Wednesday's "Idol" final, we'll be hearing a lot of either "My...

Jack Bauer once more saved the day on Fox's "24," but for his trouble, he ended up in the cargo hold of a ship bound for China. It was not...

Of the three big-deal season finales Monday -- "Prison Break," "Grey's Anatomy" and "How I Met Your Mother" -- only one, "Mother," sent out preview tapes. But since when does...