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"Girls" creator Lena Dunham will host "Saturday Night Live" for the first time this weekend, but the HBO star has already received the "SNL" treatment.

Penelope Keith may be best know for playing posh characters but she has now officially become a titled woman - a Dame Commander.

Amy Schumer attends the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne at the Hollywood Palladium on Aug. 4, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Fans of Mary Louise Parker will be happy to know that she may be returning to TV.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has shut down rumors surrounding a third "Sex and the City" movie, insisting there has been "no real conversation" about another installment.

Two of the nation's much loved stars of stage and television, Penelope Keith and Michael Crawford, will receive honours from the Queen today.

ABC says Isaiah Washington will return to "Grey's Anatomy" for a guest appearance in May, seven years after he was fired from the medical drama.

Martin Short arrives at 16th Annual Mark Twain Prize presented to Carol Burnett at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C. The 40th anniversary of groundbreaking Canadian sketch show "SCTV" is coming up in 2016, but the general prospect of a cast reunion doesn't seem that meaningful to Short - only because the members of the ... (more)

Geoff Edwards, the hip-looking 1970s and '80s host of TV game shows including "Jackpot!" and two incarnations of "Treasure Hunt," died Wednesday, his agent said.

ON THIS DAY IN 1992: Phylicia Rashad, as Clair Huxtable, talks on the telephone while Bill Cosby, as Dr. Cliff Huxtable and other cast members of the family sitcom "The Cosby Show" gather around during taping of the final episode in New York City, Friday, March 6, 1992.

It's been more than a decade since Dawson's Creek ended its five-year run, but one of the show's stars, Katie Holmes, thinks the show can be considered timeless.

Khloe Kardashian and her estranged husband, Lamar Odom, have reported a theft at their recently-sold Los Angeles home.

If there's a "NewsRadio" vibe to Dave Foley's new Canuck sitcom "Spun Out," the baby-faced Kids in the Hall member welcomes it.

From left, host Neil deGrasse Tyson and executive producer Seth MacFarlane participate in FOX's "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" panel at the FOX Winter TCA Press Tour, on Monday, January 13, 2014 at the Langham Huntington, in Pasadena, Calif.

The USA Network will use the popularity of its legal drama "Suits" on Thursday night to draw attention to its new series "Sirens," a dark comedy about EMTs from Denis Leary.

Chicago, increasingly television's kind of town, adds another series to its roster of locally filmed shows tomorrow with the premiere of USA's "Sirens," a wacky Denis Leary-produced comedy about EMTs.

David Nail 's third album, I'm a Fire , just came out, and he's lined up two big TV appearances to promote it.

Actress Mila Kunis has landed a guest spot on her new fiance's TV comedy Two and a Half Men.

Sunday's Oscars ceremony turned out to be the most popular entertainment program of the past 10 years.

The next step, reasons the self-deprecating comedian, is to become a bona fide matinee idol with his debut feature, No Clue.