‘Designing Women’ Star Meshach Taylor Dead at 67
Meshach Taylor, best known for playing interior design aide Anthony Bouvier on the hit CBS sitcom “Designing Women” has died of cancer. He was 67. He died at his home outside of Los Angeles…
Delta Burke
‘Community’ student Abed analyzes the Emmys
Hi, I'm Abed Nadir, a film major at Greendale Community College. The editors of this paper have asked me to share my 2011 Best Comedy Emmy pick, I'm assuming as part of some diversity program.
Review: ‘Bridal Fever’
Like so many Valentines that will circulate this month, "Bridal Fever" espouses antiquated notions of love and romance wrapped around cheap sentiments.
John Travolta
John Travolta's decision to soft-shoe into the memorably oversized role of Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" required 14 months of convincing by producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan. Travolta finally said…
New deal for ‘Steel’
Monday night didn't offer up the habitual Broadway opening-night crowd.
DirecTV bows PPV service for gay auds
DirecTV has become the first U.S. distributor to agree to carry a pay-per-view service directed at a gay and lesbian audience.
Duo shooting back
Former "Just Shoot Me" co-exec producers Andy Gordon and Eileen Conn have inked a multiyear, high-seven-figure development deal with Columbia TriStar Television.
Review: ‘Dag’
After a promising start, NBC's "DAG" runs for cover. Weighed down by a conventional structure and predictable laughs, "In Living Color" alum David Alan Grier comes up short in his first leading-man…
Review: ‘Melanie Darrow’
All the king's horses, all the king's men, all the phony paintings and all the phony earrings can't make a credible story out of over-the-top defense attorney Melanie Darrow's first TV case. Delta…
Review: ‘A Promise to Carolyn’
Delta Burke and Swoosie Kurtz deliver vivid perfs as Texas sisters avenging the years-ago murder of their sibling in "A Promise to Carolyn," a harrowing story of child abuse and its aftermath. Jerry…
ABC sked full of in-house shows
Suppliers may have gotten a preview of the world after fin-syn on Sunday, as ABC slotted a show starring Paula Poundstone that wasn't on its development slate and didn't have a pilot but comes from…
