The headlines these days can make you want to crawl back into bed with wine milk and cookies, and a new episode of Ghost Whisperer (hello, my Friday night), but this one on Variety.com just hit me especially hard: Sesame......

Country singer Dierks Bentley is a man known for hitting the road hard, so it's appropriate that when PopWatch met him Wednesday night in New York City, where he's been promoting his new album, Feel That Fire, he had just......

An estimated one million people took part in Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve '09 with Ryan Seacrest in Times Square, but I was happy to be one of the millions watching from home. It was so cold -- a......

Mike Fleiss, creator of The Bachelor, has signed an exclusive eight-figure development deal with Warner Bros. TV, Variety reports. "Despite the hard times in our business, you know the kind of shows we produce will continue to be produced," he......

Why I'm looking forward to Kevin Costner's latest flick, Swing Vote (trailer below), in theaters Aug. 1: 1. I missed Roy McAvoy, the lovable loser Costner plays in Tin Cup. Bud Johnson, the lovable loser he plays in Swing Vote, appears to be a cousin. 2. The odds are good that I'll witness the best ...

I'm going to be an aunt for the first time come November, so suddenly, I care about children. And how I can enhance (or scar) their lives with entertainment. (Do I have to wait 16 years to empower my niece with the gift that is seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Grrr argh.) Anyway, that's wh...

Apparently, making trailers for books is the new thing. Which gives me an excuse to tell you what Fashionistas author Lynn Messina is doing to promote her first teen novel, Savvy Girl: She's holding a "Be Reel Savvy" video trailer contest. You produce a 30- to 60- second trailer for the bo...

I'm sure this show, which pits 12 pooches, pictured, against each other for the title of "Greatest American Dog," sounded like a good idea to someone, at some point. Kinda like EW's December 3, 1993 cover of Frasier's dog, Eddie. (It's true, y'all.) But somehow, it's even less fun than you'd expect....

I loved this episode of Nashville Star for many reasons. First and foremost, it was only an hour long. Secondly, host Billy Ray Cyrus showed a little bit of personality and I didn't want to slap him (except for that hanging chad joke). Thirdly, the contestants started to bite back at the judges, who...

At the risk of losing more ground to Annie Barrett in our battle over who's cooler (just go ahead and crown her Queen S--- of Turd Island already, I can't compete), I'm admitting that I went to a doo-wop concert Saturday night. My mother thinks I accompanied her because she begged me to, and while i...