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You know how sometimes a song can be well-written, the lyrics literate and its singer passionate, but you still think "meh" about it? That's kind of what this episode of 30 Rock was like for me.

Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian and author Wanda Sykes returns to Fox to host the irreverent new late-night series "The wanda Sykes Show" at 10 p.m. Saturday on channel 23, cable 5. ROGER ERICKSON/Fox Published: Wanda Sykes wants you to come and hang out.

Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin have been spotted filming scenes together for the new series of 30 Rock.

Jon Stewart devoted a good third of "The Daily Show" Thursday to a topic that's front and center in our national conversation: Glenn Beck's appendix.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation , a media watchdog that monitors how GLBTs are presented, has issued a "Call to Action" against the Comedy Central cartoon program South Park, alleging that the show's famously risque, rough-and-tumble humor has gone too far.

The sale of popular TV shows partly offset a drop in third-quarter advertising revenue at CBS Corp.

Kayne West jumps onstage after Taylor Swift won the 'Best Female Video' award during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on September 13, 2009 in New York City.

Rue McClanahan, who played sexy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls," was recovering Thursday from heart bypass surgery at a New York City hospital.

Some suicide prevention groups aren't laughing over a scene in "The Office" where Steve Carell's character tries to scare young children by struggling in a hangman's noose.

The problem with "A Christmas Carol" is that too much Carrey and Zemeckis eventually overshadows Dickens.

The Kanye West jokes have already started over at Saturday Night Live in a preview for this weekend's Taylor Swift -hosted episode.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will share hosting duties at the 82nd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama has recruited the actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Vogue editor Anna Wintour to advise him on the arts.

What makes a British cultural institution? Style? Sophistication? In the case of comic magazine Viz , the ingredients are swearing, toilet humour, and biting satire.

James Franco has graduated from daytime to primetime TV in a matter of weeks! That boy knows how to work it out! Franco will be guest starring as himself in an upcoming episode of NBC's 30 Rock , in which Franco will be involved in a "faux romance" with Jenna that was "engineered by their respective agents." James is said to be working the episode ...

John Lithgow was going to pass on the chance to play serial killer vs. serial killer on "Dexter," with an Italian vacation, cruise and his son's wedding awaiting him.

Coronation Street star Kym Marsh has been named Celebrity Mum of the Year. The actress and mother-of-two confirmed she is back together with former Hollyoaks star Jamie Lomas as she accepted the award.

This year's special, taped at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, honors Bill Cosby with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Flight Of The Conchords, starring Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, is largely autobiographical.

This year's Oscars will have a pair of hosts, instead of just one. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will be hosting this years Academy Award broadcast.