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"Hell's Kitchen" opener and "American Idol" , Fox. You know life has turned upside-down when "Idol" -- for years, the most powerful show on TV -- needs a lead-in boost from a man yelling at chefs.

This image released by CBS shows, from left, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons in a scene from "The Big Bang Theory."

This was supposed to be the year that popular stars Michael J. Fox , Sean Hayes and Robin Williams triumphantly returned to television and saved the sitcom.

BACK TO THE SMALL SCREEN: Alan Thicke and his wife Tanya, will star in a new "reality-ish" TV series.

Tom Bergeron is lightening his workload at ABC. He has announced he is leaving America's Funniest Home Videos after two more seasons.

No one would ever call Neil Patrick Harris homophobic...well, except maybe himself.

Actor/funnyman Bill Cosby has ruled out a "The Cosby Show" reunion, insisting he achieved what he wanted to with the highly-popular series and has no plans to revisit the past.

Rob Thomas knew he might make movie history by using Kickstarter to crowd-fund his "Veronica Mars" film.

Aloe Blacc is about to go from the guy who sang uncredited vocals on the global smash "Wake Me Up" to the guy who's all over your TV.

Piers Morgan and Chelsea Handler became embroiled in a bit of a spat on live TV this week after the comedienne labelled the newsman a "terrible interviewer".

The extraordinary three-year deal would carry TV's most-watched sitcom through the 2016-2017 season, the series' 10th on the air.

Mahoney, 73, has done some TV roles since "Frasier" ended in 2004 - like playing Betty White's boyfriend on "Hot in Cleveland" - but he said the theater is home.

The Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard are bracing for another blast of below-normal temperatures and heavy snowfall after a few days of temperatures slightly above normal for this time of year.

At a ceremony Tuesday night in Beverly Hills, the academy inducted Jay Leno, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, media baron Rupert Murdoch, writer-producer David E. Kelley and former ABC executive Brandon Stoddard.

Lance Gross, an Oakland-raised actor, is on the phone from what he calls the "polar vortex" of Chicago, where he just finished shooting a scene for the new turbocharged NBC drama "Crisis."

Kid television actor turned go-to comic straight man Jason Bateman makes a - shall we say surprising? - feature-directing debut with "Bad Words."

The president urged young people to sign up for the new health care plan through an appearance posted Tuesday on the comic website Funny or Die, bypassing the news media and even previous favorites like TV talk-show titans Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman.

As far as prime-time television goes, police precincts haven't historically been a friendly place to be gay or lesbian.

Actor and comedian Zach Galifianakis, who hosts "Between Two Ferns" and interviewed Obama on an episode that posted Tuesday.

Cristin says that the crazy conspiracy theories actually make her love the " HIMYM " fans more, and then later compares the theories to "Lost."