It's been three years since the "L Word" aired its last episode and seven since "Queer as Folk" finished its run, and some of the folks involved with those shows are pitching their a new TV show featuring a gay, multi-ethnic ensemble cast. The show's location and name is "DTLA," and its creators says it's like "Queer As Folk" meets "Swingers." more ›

A woman who took part in a competition event last fall has filed suit against stunt performer and well-known "Jackass" Steve-O, claiming she was "injured on a wet stage" during the taping of the upcoming game show. more ›

Cinema and television-obsessed, mark Griffith Park as your number one go-to spot to spy a production shoot. The iconic site boasts the number one spot as 2011's top offlot L.A. shooting location. The park reportedly housed 346 permitted days for its main address last year. more ›

"Party Down" fans, the new year brings good news for one of your favorite cancelled TV shows. Chatter surrounding whether or not the L.A.-based show will grace the silver screen was confirmed on Sunday by series star Megan Mullally. more ›

Nominees for the Writers Guild Awards were announced today by the Writers Guild of America (WGA), honoring the men and women who pen the stories, characters and reports the world later becomes smitten by on the silver screen, television sets and via the radio waves. more ›

You may still be compiling your list of the best in film and television of this year, but the American Film Institute has just released their selection of what they're hailing as the 10 best movies and television programs of 2011. more ›

In response to a Michigan music teacher who has sparked controversy over the removal of the word "gay" from the beloved Christmas song "Deck the Halls," America's favorite ginger Conan O'Brien produced a product that we can all now cross off our Christmas lists. He de-gayed Christmas music with Straight-Up Christmas: Vol. I. more ›

Harry Morgan died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, and most of the obituaries about his legacy mentioned his work on "M*A*S*H," "Dragnet" and "Inherit the Wind." But there was something troubling missing from the obits: a description of his relatively recent arrest for beating up his wife. more ›

Amy Poehler won Variety's Power of Comedy Award on Saturday, staking the claim as the first woman to do so. Her acceptance speech jabbed at Will Ferrell then weaved in and out of her crass humor and genuine advocacy for cancer awareness. The ears of feminists perked up as she promised, "I will take this honor seriously, and I'm gonna use my newly acquired power to create television shows that highlight issues important to women." more ›

In case you haven't heard or have banned MTV from your life, "Beavis and Butt-Head" have been revived and are gracing the network with their infectious laughs, crass humor, extreme stupidity and fart jokes. The series returned on October 27 and airs Thursdays at 10pm. Huh-huh-uh-huh, cool. more ›

America's favorite ginger Conan O'Brien will personally perform a same-sex wedding during tonight's show on TBS. Airing from NYC, the event marks the first same-sex wedding on late night television. Please note: The wedding is not a comedy bit. It's a "real, legally binding, same-sex marriage between our show's costume designer, Scott Cronick, and his partner, David Gorshein," explains Conan during last night's mention of the upcoming nuptials. more ›

Is Justin Bieber really a fan's baby daddy? Mariah Yeater says yes, and the Biebs says... well, he'd rather focus on music and not the gossip. Okay, fine. So it's no wonder Jimmy Fallon took a musical approach to the Bieber Baby Mama Drama last night, and came up with this spoof song "(It's Not My) Baby." more ›

"Arrested Development" creators found out that waiting FOREEEEEVER five years to bring a TV show to the big screen doesn't just create business problems, it creates a really big creative problem: how do you get the audience caught up on what's happened during all that time? Like Gob Bluth, the TV show's creator Mitchell Hurwitz has a potentially explosive trick up his sleeve: bringing the show back to TV for one season before it hits the big screen. more ›

We're at Techcrunch Disrupt in San Francisco where some 30 startups from around the world are launching, execs, entrepreneurs and VCs are staking positions in the future of media and technology and Ashton Kutcher is introducing Walden Schmidt, his character debuting Monday on CBS' "Two and a Half Men." more ›

Another Monday in the city, but never fear, we're saving you from having to stay in tonight with these events. It's a School Night rocks Bardot in Hollywood; Moby does a book signing at Book Soup; FOX screens upcoming fall shows at the Paley Center, a free art circle happens at the Ford Amphitheatre; author Julie Otsuka signs her latest book at Vroman's; and The Blank Theatre company holds a star-studded benefit for one of its new play programs. Read on for all the details. more ›

Here's what we dug up for Thursday night in LA: Paley Center hosts a preview for NBC Fall shows; REDCAT kicks off its New Original Works Festival; Khaled Hosseini signs and discusses The Kite Runner Graphic Novel in Pasadena while author Peter Manso is at Book Soup; an international theater festival takes over the LATC and if it's the second Thursday of the month, it must be time for Downtown Art Walk. more ›

Welcome back to the workweek. Events are in full force tonight, with the Paley Center kicking off its Fall TV parties, the Armory Center holding an artist talk with Roni Feldman, Glen Campell signs his new CD at Amoeba and The Academy screens classic films, such as A Trip to the Moon and A Trip Down Market Street. Read on for all the details. more ›

Don't toss your television in the dumpster just yet. KCET - the nation's largest independent public television station - and Dominique Bigle - CEO of Eyetronics Media and Studios - announced an innovative partnership today to produce and acquire original series that are distinctive to SoCal. more ›

There is nothing more entertaining than spending some time at your local Department of Motor Vehicles field office, right? Those friendly faces behind the counter, the racks of uncomplicated paperwork, the fun-to-wait in lines...it's all something worth chronicling for the ages. Now a new reality show will show viewers what it's really like to work at the California DMV says Entertainment Weekly. more ›

Classic comedy never completely fades, and a recent script deal between Sony Pictures Television and CBS has us slapping our knees in excitement (and doubt). With the twitches of a few entertainment executives' noses, CBS has ordered a script from Sony for a remake of Bewitched, reports Variety. more ›

Friday night in LA and we have lots in store for you tonight and this weekend. There's a museum store sale at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and Bergamot Station; Taste in San Pedro kicks off tonight for a weekend of food and music; and tons of indie and international TV pilots screen at Laemmle Sunset 5 this week. more ›

Steve Jobs has $76 billion dollars burning a hole in his black mock turtleneck. Apple's value has skyrocketed more than 300 percent in the past couple years owing much to growing iPhone sales and the success of the iPad. But Apple's future success rides not just on product but on content -- specifically audio and video downloads and paid streaming content. more ›

We have a boatload of events on tap for tonight. 826LA holds a ping pong fundraiser; there's a discussion with TNT's Falling Skies cast and crew; Chaplin on film at the New Beverly; samba music at the Annenberg Beach House and more. Read on for the details. more ›

Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the popular site is implementing separate plans for streaming and physical disc borrowing. more ›

Conan O'Brien gets what he wants. But he doesn't have a street named after him. Not yet at least. Thursday night he showed up with a sign and a call for justice. After all, Oprah has a street in Chicago named after her. "I've been in Los Angeles for 22 months," Conan said. "Isn't it time I got a street named after me?" more ›

The "Revolution" will not be televised, it seems. Well, at least not in May. ABC has decided that viewers are far more likely to tune in to see a repeat of celebri-dancers hoofing it on "Dancing With the Stars" than fresh episodes of Jamie Oliver's "Food Revolution" series for the next few weeks. The network has pulled the show for the duration of May Sweeps, and will resume airing the remaining eps in June. more ›

The only countdown to Keith Olbermann's last minutes as host of his MSNBC show "Countdown" came abruptly, as the show came to its end to the surprise of its viewers with just a couple of segments' notice back in January. A couple of weeks later came word that Olbermann was headed to Current TV with a new nightly news show in the works, and today we're learning that the show will bear the same name and timeslot as Olbermann's MSNBC gig. more ›

This morning the Los Angeles Unified School District put on a Food Service Division dog and pony show intended as an obvious response to the criticisms levied against them in last night's Season Two Premiere of the Emmy-award winning "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution." Major television press outlets, English and Spanish speaking, were invited to attend. LA's number one blog? Well, we weren't allowed to go. more ›

He's ubiquitous. His talents include looking innocuous, fake waiter-ing, sitting in a meeting, sitting in a lecture hall, and walking past others. He excels at leaning against lockers. Meet....uh...wait a minute--we don't ever learn the names of the thousands and thousands of extras ("background artists") who fill the hospital wards, high school hallways, restaurant tables, civic demonstrations, and company shareholder meetings in movies and television shows. more ›

Charlie Sheen is suing Warner Bros. and "Two and a Half Men" co-creator Chuck Lorre for $100 million plus punitive damages. In the suit Sheen alleges that Lorre wanted him fired even before he went batshit crazypants all over the teevees, satellites and internets. more ›