Maureen Ryan

"The Amazing Race" starts again March 1, and many fans are aghast that "Survivor All Stars" participants Rob and Amber will be participating. Sure, it's stunt casting, but Rob and...

Boy, that's one nice dad Ashlee Simpson has. On this season's first two installments of MTV's "The Ashlee Simpson Show," it becomes clear that Simpson's manager and father, Joe, was...

Thank goodness that the audition episodes are finally over on "American Idol." It's mildly amusing to see mildly delusional folks display their complete lack of singing skills, but those episodes...

WTTW-Ch. 11 announced Wednesday that it will air a controversial episode of the children's series "Postcards from Buster" at 9 a.m. Feb. 13. The episode, "Sugartime!," was criticized by Education...

At the end of Monday's "24," a photo of a military pilot appeared, with these words: "This episode is dedicated to the memory of Lt. Col. Dave Greene of the...

Something strange happened at the end of the Jan. 12 episode of "Law & Order," which featured the last appearance of Elisabeth Rohm, the actress who played deputy district attorney...

You have to love the Golden Globes for getting it right so often Sunday night. It may be unclear what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is (apparently they're a group...

Word up to Star Jones Reynolds, who took Jen Schefft to task on Wednesday's edition of "The View" for only having one black bachelor among the 25 candidates on "The...

ACTUALLY, WE WERE SEEKING TO PROVIDE THE SENSORY EQUIVALENT OF ONE OF OUR JAMS ... While crossing the Kinzie Street Bridge in August, the Dave Matthews Band's bus allegedly dumped...

Although those "Desperate Housewives" engage in their share of tabloid-worthy antics, when it comes to Chicago newspapers, it looks as if they prefer their news from a broadsheet. On Sunday's...