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2017-04-28T04:49:06-07:00Carrie Fisher's Sister to Publish Tell-All Memoir

Joely Fisher, the actress and half-sister of Carrie Fisher, has her own show business stories.

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, told The Associated Press on Thursday that it had acquired her memoir, “Growing Up Fisher,” and would release it Nov. 14. The publisher is promising “incredible, candid stories” about everyone from Frank Sinatra to Ellen DeGeneres, on whose sitcom “Ellen” she played Paige Clark. Her other credits include the TV shows “Til Death” and “Wild Card.”

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Joely Fisher also appeared Growing Pains and The Drew Carey Show.

Fast National ratings for Sunday, January 4, 2015. The last 55 minutes of a tight and controversial Wild Card game between the Cowboys and Lions spilled into Sunday primetime and proved huge enough to push Fox to a dominant performance in all measures, also giving big boosts to "The Simpsons," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Family Guy" and "Bob's Burgers." Numbers for Fox are, of course, tentative and subject to change. With new programming returning on Sunday after holiday breaks, there were a slew of notables, including a very strong return for NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" and good NFL-free audiences for "Madam Secretary" and "The Good Wife." ABC's fairy tale musical-comedy "Galavant" got off to an encouraging start on its own, though it was unable to serve as any kind of lead-in for "Resurrection" and "Revenge." On to the numbers... Among adults 18-49, Fox averaged a 6.2 rating for Sunday night, tops in the key demographic. NBC was...

Baltimore Ravens Director of Security Darren Sanders was charged Tuesday with a fourth-degree sex offense that will land him in court in February.

Court records didn’t reveal the nature of the offense, but the charge is a misdemeanor and draws up to $1,000 fine and/or one-year in jail, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Also Read: 11 of the Year’s Most Scandalous Sports Stories: TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2014

Sanders’ lawyer, Andrew Alperstein, denied the charges, calling them “totally fabricated, made up.”

“It does a disservice to real victims when people make things up like this,” Alperstein said in a statement.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Revenge, Sons of Anarchy, Forever and Bones!

1 | Did Girl Meets World’s highly anticipated Shawn-Cory reunion even need a laugh track? That was one of the most serious Christmas episodes ever. And why no mention of Shawn’s love life? (We want Angela! We want Angela!)

2 | How Murray Saved Christmas: culturally insensitive foolishness, or irreverent holiday romp?

3 | Wasn’t The Affair’s Helen strangely flippant about her daughter’s potential bulimia?

4 | On Revenge,...

It’s a good thing Constantine‘s Newcastle mates keep needing his help: Otherwise, we might never find out exactly what happened during the oft-referred-to yet-still-unclear worst night of his life.

Anne Marie, yet another member of John’s old magic gang, surfaces in this week’s episode (NBC, Friday at 10/9c). You remember how Gary Lester turned to heroin after the nightmare of being involved in Astra’s botched exorcism? We find out that Anne Marie has chosen an equally drastic, yet completely different, coping mechanism: She’s become a nun.

Fans of the Hellblazer comics know that, prior to the terrible incident,...

Word to the wise: don’t bicker while on the job.

Because as Chicago P.D.‘s winter finale on Wednesday night demonstrated, if you do, you won’t be prepared for what’s about to hit you. Or in the case of this episode, what’s about to strike your partner.

When Roman and Burgess are assigned to ridealong with his ex-partner Jen (aka the one he fell for), things get tense very fast. “I should have called in dead,” Roman tells Burgess. Hey, it can’t be that bad, can it? Oh yes, it can, because Roman and Jen...

For the first time in the show's history, The Voice had a Wild Card round this week where all of the eliminated contestants from the Top 12 came back to perform for a final chance to make the finals.

Usually, during results shows, the final result is not known until literally the last few seconds. But on Tuesday night, they moved it up to the very start (with Chris Jamison, Craig Wayne Boyde and Matt McAndrew advancing) so they could fit nine Wild Card performances into less than an hour. It was a packed night, but they managed to get through everybody in time.

‘Twas some time before Christmas, and all through the ‘port, New Girl roomies were waiting, some at the food court.”

As its title suggests, this year’s holiday episode/fall finale of the Fox comedy, “LAXmas,” takes place at the bustling transportation hub as Jess, her pals and the rest of the California try to get to their destinations before Santa does. But are they successful? Read on to find out!

Life’S Rich Pageant | Jess and Ryan sneak away from their school’s inexplicably dark Christmas pageant (think an elf bemoaning a gingerbread man’s ripped-off arm) to make out in the closet.

You can’t accuse NBC of underestimating the power of cross-promotional synergy.

With The Voice rocking the 18-49 demo and its venerable Today struggling to get out of No. 2 in the morning-show ratings, the Peacock net made a bold move with its reality-singing juggernaut’s semifinal results telecast: Nope, you won’t know identity of the fourth and final Season 7 finalist unless you wake up with Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and that collection of other folks who use international news as the aoli in a pop-culture and cooking-segments sandwich.

I’m not kidding. Host Carson Daly taunted the Voice audience...

We're getting down to the wire here in season 7 of The Voice. Tonight, we'll meet our Top 3 artists from the Top 5. Damien, Craig Wayne Boyd, Taylor John Williams, Matt McAndrew and Chris Jamison are all anxiously waiting to see if they made it. Who will be in the Top 3? My guess? Matt McAndrew and Craig Wayne Boyd will definitely be in the Top 3. I'm a little unsure who the last one will be, but Dean Bextor predicts that Chris Jamison will be in there too. I really like Taylor John Williams, though, but there's always the Wild Card spot.

Also tonight, eliminated contestants from the Top 12 will battle it out for the coveted fourth spot. Who do you think will claim the Wild Card spot?...

Are your Facebook friends stressing you out with ominous updates like, “Holiday shopping is Done” or “Look at my completely completed Christmas decorations”? And meanwhile, your life’s poetry is “The stockings were buried/ In the closet sans care/ Now you can’t find them/ So the mantle stays bare.“

Fret not: The Voice has got you covered!

Sure, Season 7 has reached the crucial semifinal stage — America will whittle the Top 5 down to a Top 3 on Tuesday’s results show, then save one ousted member of the Top 12 via Wild Card — but the good news is you can now fast-forward...

Your least favorite contestant on The Voice this season? You’re never getting rid of him (or her)!

[Insert executive producer Mark Burnett's maniacal laughter here.]

I’m just kidding, of course. Sorta.

As Carson Daly announced tonight, Season 7 of NBC’s reality singing sensation is adding a new twist: Every Top 12 contestant eliminated before the finals (fourth- through 12th-place, in other words) will be brought back for a last-chance performance, with viewers advancing their favorite into the last week of the competition as a fourth “Wild Card finalist.”

“It’s new, it’s exciting and it’s going down!” exclaimed Carson. I mean, with that kind of endorsement,...

Why weren’t we in Kansas City last night!! After the Royals secured its spot in the World Series, Paul Rudd revealed that he is partying the night away… at his mom’s house.

During a post-game interview with a local news station, the “Anchorman” star expresses his excitement for his baseball team’s win and said, “I’ve lost my voice. But I’ve lost my voice pretty much every game since the Wild Card.”

When the reporter asked how Paul was going to celebrate the win, he excitedly said that he was headed to his mom’s house for a kegger.

“I’m gonna be partying at my mom’s house … party at my mom’s. She’s out of town. I got a keg, it’s gonna be sweet,” he told Kmbc after the Royals won 2-1 over the Baltimore Orioles, winning the American League title and...

A little bad blood might be good news for Major League Baseball’s postseason. How about a Beltway World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals? Or a Freeway Series between the L.A. Dodgers and L.A. Angels? Or another Bay Bridge Series between the Oakland A’s and the San Francisco Giants (this time without the earthquake)? TV coverage of the postseason shuffles a bit under Mlb’s new eight-year, $12.4 billion TV rights deal with partners Espn, Fox and TBS. The playoffs begin Sept. 30 with the Al wild-card game on TBS. Espn will air an Mlb playoff game for … Continue reading →

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Hispanic cable network mun2 recently announced that it will be presenting Spanish-language broadcasts of some NFL games, starting Sept. 28 with the Hispanic Heritage Game between the New Orleans Saints and Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas. The games will be broadcast under the franchise banner, “La NFL en mun2.” Other upcoming games the network said it will cover in Spanish include the Thanksgiving night (Nov. 27) rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara; an NFL Wild Card game and a Divisional Playoff Game; and the exclusive Spanish-language telecast of Super Bowl Xlix in Glendale, Arizona, … Continue reading →

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NBCUniversal's Hispanic cable network, mun2, is set to broadcast several National Football League games from the current season in Spanish. And for what it's worth, they're not lame-duck match-ups, either. The package includes the primetime New Orleans Saints-Dallas Cowboys Hispanic Heritage Game in Arlington, Texas on Sept. 28, and the NFL's Thanksgiving night game on Nov. 27, when the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers battle in Santa Clara, Calif. Additionally, mun2 will offer a Wild Card game and a Divisional Playoff game, as well as the exclusive Spanish-language telecast of Super Bowl Xlix in Glendale, Ari. on Feb. 1,  2015. Also read: NFL Commissioner Roger.

After being introduced to Dana Fredsti’s take on the zombie apocalypse last year in the form of Plague Town and Plague Nation (read my review here), I’ve been looking forward to the concluding part of the trilogy and I’m happy to report that I haven’t been disappointed.

Picking up right where Plague Nation left off, our heroine Ashley Parker is plunged straight into a battle with the undead, Fredsti launching into her trademark breakneck pace that doesn’t let up until the end of the book. As the title suggests, the zombie plague has progressed from its initial outbreak in Redwood Grove (a la Racoon City), via the whole of America, and now to the rest of the world, having finally gone airborne.

Ashley’s story is focused on San Francisco, where she and the rest of her Wild Card team – people who have survived zombie...

It's always a night full of sportstastic fun when the 2014 Espy Awards go down in Los Angeles. The spectacular event took place this evening (July 16) inside the Nokia Live Theater and featured the wonderful emcee skills of rapper Drake.

As for the evening's winners, the Best Team prize went to the Seattle Seahawks and Best Male and Female Athlete went to Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder) and Ronda Rousey (Ufc fighter), respectively.

Meanwhile, Chris Brown and Drake proved that there is no more feud over Rihanna by performing a lighthearted skit together.

Check out the full list of ESPYs winners below!

Best Team

Winner Seattle Seahawks, NFL

Boston Red Sox, Mlb

Connecticut Women’s Basketball

Florida State Football

Los Angeles Kings, NHL

San Antonio Spurs, NBA

Best Male Athlete

Winner Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder

Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos

Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers

Floyd Mayweather, Boxer

Best Jockey

Winner Victor Espinoza...

This weekend’s Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa opened on a serious note and it proved to be a turning point for the existing contestants of the show. Saturday’s show opened with rehearsal footage of existing contestants. All the contestants were called on stage and the two unsafe contestants who would be in the face-off this week, would be announced.

Sreesanth and Puja were the two unsafe contestants. Puja was disappointed to be in the face-off once again.

For the first time, the face-off happened at the beginning of the show. Puja and Rajat were the first to perform. Their chosen dance style was Freestyle, and they performed to the song ‘Teri Meri Prem Kahani’ from Bodyguard. Their prop was a picture frame. All the acts would be featuring a prop this week as this was the theme. As always, Puja’s scores were saved and would be revealed after Sreesanth performed.

Whoopi Goldberg may have an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy and a (Daytime) Emmy, but it’s hard to make the case that she could handle hosting The View all by her lonesome. (Who, exactly, would interrupt her every 10 seconds during “Hot Topics”?)

Related The View: 13 Nightmare Replacement Hosts

And yet with Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy announcing their exits last week, Whoopi stands as the show’s sole remaining panelist heading into Season 18.

So who should join Ms. Goldberg at the Barbara Walters Memorial Table? We want your input! And to that end, we’ve created polls for...

When Espn announced the nominees for its 2014 Espy awards today, up-and-coming athletes as well as seasoned professionals received some good news: St. Louis Rams draft pick Michael Sam will get the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, while Peyton Manning is nominated both for Best Male Athlete and Best NFL Player.

Best Male Athlete nominees include Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers, Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos, and boxer Floyd Mayweather. Best Female Athlete nominees include Maya Moore of the Minnesota Lynx, Ufc fighter Ronda Rousey, Olympic skier Mikaela Shiffrin, and Breanna Stewart of...

Espn unveiled its complete list of 2014 Espy nominees on Tuesday: Miguel Cabrera, Kevin Durant, Peyton Manning and Floyd Mayweather are in contention for Best Male Athlete, while Maya Moore, Ronda Rousey, Mikaela Shiffrin and Breanna Stewart duke it out for top female. The nominees for Best Game include the Iron Bowl, Alabama vs. Auburn; the Afc Wild Card Playoff, Kansas City Chiefs vs. Indianapolis Colts; and the Stanley Cup Finals Game 5, New York Rangers vs. Los Angeles Kings. Also read: ‘SportsCenter’ Anchor Stuart Scott to Get Jimmy V Perseverance Award at 2014 ESPYs Best Team will come down to the Boston Red Sox,...

Each year since its inception, the Cinetopia International Film Festival has grown by leaps and bounds. This year finds the festival expanding even more into the Metro Detroit area, which means some of the best films from around the film festival circuit will be available. Unfortunately, that also means you may be forced to make some hard choices. I’d be willing to wager it’s nearly impossible to see all of the films that will be screened across the ten Cinetopia venues for this year’s festival, which means you might need a bit of guidance when planning your festival experience. The Cinetopia staff has been offering their Top 5 Picks throughout the past month, so I thought it was time to jump in the ring myself. Below are the five movies you should not skip at this year’s festival.

1. The Skeleton Twins

Starring Saturday Night Live (SNL) alums...

The 15th annual Golden Trailer Awards were held in Beverly Hills on Friday night, celebrating the best previews of the past year and secretly everyone’s favorite part about going to the movies.

Warner Brothers was the big winner of the night taking home 15 awards total including being named Best of Show for the trailer “Detached” of the Oscar-winning film Gravity. Other winners include Frozen for Best Animation/Family trailer, Dallas Buyers Club for Best Independent Trailer and Godzilla for Best Summer Blockbuster trailer. The Golden Trailer Awards were started in 1999 by Evelyn Brady-Watters and Monica Brady. “The Golden Trailer Awards...

She was the first Wild Card contestant since Clay Aiken to make the finals on American Idol, but like the season 2 alum, Jena Irene became the runner-up after Caleb Johnson claimed victory.

Jena talked with reporters, including BuddyTV, about her original music, singing "Can't Help Falling in Love," why she changed her last name, performing with Paramore and why she's going to prom with Caleb. Also, how come Jena chose to perform first during the finals when she won the coin toss? She explained what really happened, so read on to find out.

American Idol has named its lucky Season 13 winner.

On Wednesday's two-hour finale of the Fox reality singing competition, the finalists had the opportunity to sing with some of their biggest idols in a star-studded extravaganza. Who found their musical soul mates? And more importantly, was Wild Card pick Jena or rocker Caleb crowned the winner? Read on for our breakdown of the night's performances or skip to the bottom for the results.

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Here we are, Idol fans. The moment is finally upon us. Who will win season 13 of American Idol? On one side, we've got the Wild Card. On the other, the wild child. At least, that's how the show described this match-up last night.

Caleb Johnson and Jena Irene took to the stage for the final time before America voted for the winner. Simon Fuller was in the house to watch the contestants perform songs he chose. Caleb and Jena also reprised their best performances of the season. (While that was the case with Jena, Caleb should have gone with "Skyfall.") And then of course they performed the winner's single.

Welcome to the first half of the "American Idol" finale. It's Caleb Johnson versus Jena Irene for the big prize, whatever that happens to be at this point in "Idol" history. On Tuesday (May 20), each of the finalists will sing thrice. On Wednesday, over two hours, we'll be treated to guest stars and group performances until we want to tear our collective hair out. Then somebody will win. And then I'll go recap the "Survivor: Cagayan" finale, hoping that Twitter doesn't ruin it for me first. Let's get down to our Tuesday business... 8:00 p.m. Et. Ryan Seacrest is tuxed up for our first night at the Nokia Theatre. 8:01 p.m. Keith is keeping it casual, but Harry is also wearing a tuxedo. J-Lo has a black leather dress with a sparkling top. As she would 8:03 p.m. Caleb is wearing a lot of fringe. Jena is wearing gold stretchy pants.

NFL hopeful Michael Sam will be presented with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at “The 2014 Espys” in Los Angeles. After a successful college football career as defensive end of the Missouri Tigers, where he was named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year and First-Team All-American his senior year, Sam announced publicly that he was gay. Should he be drafted and signed by a team, Sam would be the first publicly gay player in the NFL. Also read: Espn's NFL Wild Card Playoff Game Will Cost $100 Million...

Do awards shows for advertising have “for your consideration” ads for their ads?

While your brain ponders that Russian nesting doll of a question, let’s take a look at the contenders for this year’s Golden Trailer Awards, the top honor for those clips that make you say, “Man, I’ve got to see that.”

The 15th annual competition doesn’t honor the best movie, just the most alluring promo. And it has a somewhat dubious special award known as the “Golden Fleece,” which honors the best trailer for the worst film.

The commercial for All Cheerleaders Die, featured above,...

Warner Bros set the pace for the biggest number of nominations in the 15th annual Golden Trailer Awards, which will be presented May 30 at the Saban Theater. The awards cover the gamut of trailers, and Warner Bros, with 51 noms for films including Gravity, The Lego Movie, Godzilla and The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, set the pace. Universal is second with 32 nominations including Focus Features, for movies that include A Million Ways To Die In The West, Lone Survivor, The Purge and Despicable Me 2. Right behind them is Fox, which includes Searchlight, and which got 31 noms for films that included The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Rio 2 and How To Train Your Dragon 2. Lionsgate got 30 noms and Disney came in with 23. The judge panel includes Frozen co-director Chris Buck, actor Adam Driver, Entourage creator Doug Ellin and castmember Debi Mazar, Raising Hope’s Garret Dillahunt, Divergent helmer Neil Burger,...

When it comes to motor bike racing I tend to think of Superbikes and Motor Gp, I’ve even played some of the games, though not for many years. When loading up Mxgp and making my way through the menu system to get to an actual race I knew that the races would be muddy and full of jumping in the air, and in a way that is the perfect way to start the game. The problem with this though is the complexities of racing on tracks that appear to want you to crash spectacularly, in bone crushing ways!

That’s not to say that Mxgp is a hard game to control, you just have to get used to how the bike handles, how your rider applies his weight to the bike and all of your opponents who are flying through the air at the same time. Playing on the...

Are you ready for some football? You'd better be. The NFL released its full 2014 schedule on Wednesday, from regular season through the postseason. The preseason schedule was previously announced. Below is the NFL broadcast schedule. Also read: Espn's NFL Wild Card Playoff Game Will Cost $100 Million Per Year 2014 NBC Sunday Night Football Schedule Thurs. Sept. 4 NFL Kickoff: Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks Sun. Sept. 7 Week 1: Indianapolis Colts at Denver Broncos Sun. Sept. 14 Week 2: Chicago Bears at San Francisco 49ers Sun. Sept. 21 Week 3: Pittsburgh Steelers at Carolina Panthers Also read: Espn to Televise First NFL Playoff Game,...

The NFL regular-season schedule comes out tomorrow, but we already know something big about the postseason. The league said today that Espn will air a wild card game during the first weekend of the playoffs in early January. The milestone game will mark the first postseason NFL game on pay TV — and should draw astronomical ratings for the cable universe. Last season’s wild card weekend was a goldmine for NBC, CBS and especially Fox, whose 49ers-Packers contest was the most-watched wild card game on any network since the Reagan administration with 47.1 million viewers. Even that weekend’s lowest-rated game — in which the Colts erased a four-touchdown deficit to stun the Chiefs — drew 27.6 million. But that’s more than the largest cable TV audience ever: the 2011 Auburn-Oregon college football title game, which pulled in 27.3 million viewers for Espn. The sports network, which carries Monday Night Football games, signed an eight-year...

Espn will televise a National Football League Wild Card contest during the 2014 season — the first NFL Playoff game in the cable channel's 35-year history. Additionally, NBC will add a Divisional Playoff game this coming postseason and each year through 2022. The NFL and Espn had reached a new eight-year extension for “Monday Night Football” and broad studio, multimedia and international rights in 2011. The agreement — which began this spring and extends through the 2021 NFL season — provided the NFL with an option to air a postseason Wild Card playoff game on Espn, which the NFL opted...

Today's batch of MPAA ratings come with the expected PG-13 rating for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, an R-rating for the Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, World War II drama The Railway Man and an R-rating for the Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton comedy, The Other Woman, which Fox plans on appealing before it hits theaters on April 25. Check out the complete bulletin directly below. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Rated PG-13 For sequences of sci-fi action/violence. Release Date: May 2, 2014 Beethoven's Treasure Tail Rated PG For mild crude humor and peril. Earth To Echo Rated PG For some action and peril, and mild language. Note: Edited For Re-rate. Content Is Different From PG Rated Version Under Title "Echo" Bulletin No. 2267 (4/10/13). No Change In Rating Or Rating Reason. Only This Edited Version Is Rated. Enchanted Kingdom Rated G Ida Rated PG-13 For thematic elements, some sexuality and smoking. Like A...

Hunter Hayes will drop his sophomore set, “Storyline,” on May 6. The 22-year old multi-instrumentalist has brought a breath of fresh air to the country format with such hits as “Wanted,” “Somebody’s Heartbreak” and “I Want Crazy.” Hayes co-wrote all the songs on “Storyline,” including first single, “Invisible.” He co-produced the set with Dann Huff. The video for “Invisible” will debut March 12, following a sneak peek on “Good Morning America.” “Storyline” track listing 1. Wild Card 2. Storyline 3. Still Fallin 4. Tattoo 5. Invisible 6. …interlude 7. You Think You Know Somebody 8. Flashlight 9. When Did You Stop Loving Me 10. …like I was saying 11. Secret Love 12. Nothing Like Starting Over 13. If It’s Just Me 14. Love Too Much...

We didn’t get a chance to look at the first part of the Season Six premiere (you can see it here if you want to catch up), but this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race is looking too good to ignore.

Ru decided to shake things up this year by dividing the premiere into two parts, with seven queens introduced last week (Kelly Mantle was eliminated), and seven more this week. Also of note – No more immunity!

Let’s take a closer look at this week’s Dolls.

Bianca Del Rio

Strengths: Smart, sharp, biting

Weaknesses: Self-Proclaimed Clown. Can she glam it up enough?

Winning Potential: Definitely could be in final three, but can come off as cold and aloof.

Trinity K. Bonet

Strengths: “I’m as close as you’re gonna get to Beyonce”

Weaknesses: “I’m as close as you’re gonna get to Beyonce”

Winning Potential: Looks unseasoned,...

Chicago – Get your scorecards and pencils out, because this is the last stop you’ll need for all your 2014 Academy Award predicting needs…except for the 10 million other media outlets in the age of information. Why is HollywoodChicago.com better? Because our experts have insider information that we completely make up!

Two HollywoodChicago.com veterans – Brian Tallerico and Patrick McDonald – plus our contributors Nick Allen, David J. Fowlie and David Canfield, all will be predicting Sunday’s big film night, all while debating which tuxedo host Ellen DeGeneres should wear. The crew will opine on Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor/Actress, Director and Screenplays (Original and Adapted). As in previous years, the prognostications are broken down into thoughts on who Will Win, Should Win and Should Have Been Nominated (for one last gasp of dissent). The predictors will also take on a wild card guess for several other categories,...

Kristen O'Connor knew when Ryan Seacrest announced she'd gotten the least amount of votes of the "American Idol" Season 13 Top 13 finalists that she was going home.

"I didn't expect a save because they've already used the Wild Card on me and it is the first week of the finals," O'Connor tells Zap2it and a small group of reporters backstage after the Top 13 results show. "I think we all knew that no matter who it was, they probably weren't going to save them. I knew especially for me it wasn't going to happen no matter how good the performance was. So I just knew I wanted to go out with a bang and I was proud of the performance I gave."

O'Connor kept it together on TV, but after the show she had trouble holding back her tears. "I am going to take so much away," she says before pausing to regain her composure.

This week on American Idol, the Top 13 performed songs that define them as both artists and as people in a theme called "This is Me." Did our current batch of contestants step up and show who they are and who they want to be post-Idol? As always, some did and others floundered.

Heading into tonight's results show, we have a few questions to consider: is there room for more than one male country singer? Did M.K. Nobilette bring the "Satisfaction" and live up to the hype? Will any of last week's three Wild Card picks avoid the Bottom 3? And will tonight's elimination be an easy call?...

It's our first performance night for the Top 13 Finalists on Season 13 of "American Idol." Lucky 13/13! Follow along for all of the fun with the seven remaining girls and six remaining boys as they sing for Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban. 8:05 p.m. Jennifer Lopez is pretty. 8:06 p.m. Our theme tonight is This Is Me. "I love this week is about them," Keith says. J-Lo is hoping we get to know this Top 13, finally.  8:06 p.m. New ways to vote! New ways to vote! Google! 8:08 p.m. Ben Briley and Sam Woolf are going to need help on commercials this season. 8:04 p.m. Our first performer appears to be Dexter Roberts, who is afraid of spiders and once played football. Just like Ryan Seacrest. Singer: Dexter Roberts My Interview Song:"Aw Naw" My Take: Dexter goes electric and he seems to...

If you've checked out my earlier post, you've already seen my interviews with the six guys in the "American Idol" Top 13. After the judges gave two of their Wild Card slots to women, though, the girls took a 7-to-6 advantage going into the Top 13, meaning that that all-female alliance should be able to Pagong the men. Wait. Wrong Wednesday reality show.  Sorry.  Anyway, last Thursday, I caught up with all of the Season 13 "Idol" finalists. Click through for interviews with the seven remaining women. Above, you'll see my interview with M.K. Nobilette, who discusses her rave reviews from the judges last week, as well as her frank discussion of her sexuality and her love of backwards baseball caps. Then, below, you've got Jessica Meuse, who talks about the way she was depicted in the "Idol" Hollywood Week episodes and what the Group Night experience taught her about pressure. video...

This week of nervous performances and shy interviews has been sort of fun, but now, following the announcement of the Top 13, comes the real American Idol: months of live performances where assured talents shine while singing some of the most dated song choices ever. Will we get another Leiber and Stoller week? I must know!

Let’s rank this year’s competitors from worst to first, shall we? But before we get to that: Did anyone notice that Emmanuel Zidor did not even flinch or reach out in congratulations when Spencer Lloyd was announced as a potential wild card pick for the Top 13? It was Shady and I #gotmylife from it. Made me wonder if Lloyd, the much-touted “worship leader,” is a bit of a homophobe. Zidor did not look like he wanted to look at that guy. Any other theories out there? Emmanuel, if you’re out there,...

When it comes to Thursday (February 20) night's "American Idol" results, I'm not confident on much. I know who I thought gave the best performances between the Top 15 Girls on Tuesday and the Top 15 Boys on Wednesday, but I don't know how America will respond. I'm using a picture of Mk Nobilette with my recap because I'm sure that even if America didn't love her, the judges will use a Wild Card for her.  Beyond that? Well, let's see who makes the season's Top 13. Then I'm gonna go out and interview them. 7:58 p.m. Et. I don't know what format this episode will take, so I'll be playing it by ear. Hopefully things won't get sloppy. 8:00 p.m. We're starting my listing all 20 of the remaining contenders. That's a lot. And then? On to a recap of last night's performances from the guys. They weren't all great, but they...

It's a color-block style showdown! Sandra Bullock and Taylor Swift brought their A-list A-games to the 2014 Golden Globes red carpet. The Gravity nominee shined in an Prabal Gurung confection, while the One Chance crooner shut it down in a Carolina Herrera gown. So which lovely lady gets your vote? While you're indulging in our favorite pastime of pitting fashionistas against each other, check out E!'s Red Carpet Pose-Off. Jennifer Lawrence vs. Hayden Panettiere, Lupita Nyong'o vs. Emma Watson, Sofia Vergara vs. Jessica Chastain—-who rocked the red carpet? Did your fave star not make our cut? Then nominate her or him for our Wild Card round!...

Erin Andrews' tongue proved to be a very important topic of conversation during Fox's NFL coverage on Sunday, Jan. 6. Host Curt Menefee joked with the sports reporter about having A Christmas Story moment as she braved the cold during the San Francisco 49ers Wild Card game against the Green Bay Packers. "Randall Cobb is back and so too to this show is our own Erin Andrews who, using your 'Christmas Story' reference, hopefully hasn't been licking the goal post in between. Your tongue working right now?" Menefee asked while laughing. "So far so good," Andrews replied. "But I anticipate sounding like Flick from A Christmas Story." But this wasn't the...

We already knew the teaming of Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake was ratings gold for SNL and NBC. The December 21st edition of Fallon-hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Timberlake generated the show’s biggest increase ever in adults 18-49, according to Nielsen. It also saw the biggest gain in total viewers going from Live+Sd ratings to Live+7. In 18-49, the broadcast grew by 1.8 rating points to a 5.5 rating (up from 3.7). In total viewers, the increase was 3.7 million, to 13.1 million (up from 9.4 million). These are SNL’s best L+7 results in three years, since the January 8, 2011 edition with host Jim Carrey and musical guest The Black Keys, (5.79 in 18-49, 13.1 million viewers overall), which followed an NFL Wild Card overrun. Related: ‘SNL’ Leans On Fallon & Timberlake For Yuletide Yuks: Video...

Update, 12:30 Pm: Fox‘s coverage of the Nfc Wild Card game between the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers drew 47.1 million viewers and a 25.8/41 household rating Sunday. That makes the matchup in frigid-cold Green Bay – won by the Niners on a last-season field goal — the highest-rated NFL Wild Card playoff game on any network since at least 1988. The game was up 20% in ratings and 24% in viewers compared with last year’s late Sunday matchup between Seattle and Washington (21.5/36, 38.1 million viewers), and is the highest-rated and most-watched telecast of any kind since last year’s Super Bowl. Previous, 11:31 Am: The NFL’s season is raking in big ratings in the home stretch, with both NBC and CBS posting gains with wild card game coverage this weekend. NBC logged the most-watched Wild Card Saturday ever, averaging 30.8 million viewers – up 14% from last year’s 26.9 million average. Saturday’s slate featured...

Somehow between the cold weather and football pandemonium, Erin Andrews' tongue became the highlight of Fox's NFL coverage Sunday night. Curt Menefee joked with the blond beauty about having A Christmas Story moment as she braved the cold during the San Francisco 49ers Wild Card game against the Green Bay Packers. Andrews was on the field wearing a heavy winter coat, scarf and thick gloves in an effort to keep herself as warm as possible during her reporting. So when Menefee referenced the popular holiday flick from the warmth of the Fox studio, Andrews had the perfect response. "Randall Cobb is back and so too to this show is our own Erin Andrews who, using your 'Christmas...