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Conan's Triumphant Stage Return? We're So There!

Conan's Triumphant Stage Return? We're So There!

Still yearning for your daily dose of CoCo? Aren't we all! We can't promise a longterm gig just yet, but there is something in the works to tide fans over in the meantime. Conan O'Brien is reportedly thisclose to finalizing plans to hit the road over the next few months, says TheWrap, performing a live stage show across the nation.

 

'Little Fockers' release date shifts to Dec.

Universal figures "Little Fockers" is more Yuletide fare than summer sizzler. The studio will sit on the recently wrapped comedy sequel until Dec. 22 and instead will unspool two previously unslotted films in swimsuit season.

 

Ghostbusters 3 Arriving in 2011

Ghostbusters 3  Arriving in 2011

More talk from the Ghostbusters 3 camp to put a production timeline in perspective.

 

Sex and the City 2's First Poster

Sex and the City 2's First Poster

Sex and the City 2's new poster is out and it's the stuff dreams are made of -- provided that what you dream of involves sequins, bright lights, Sarah Jessica Parker, and a fairly obvious advertisement for Chanel (check out the purse).

 

Ray Romano returns with 'Men of a Certain Age'

Ray Romano returns with 'Men of a Certain Age'

Sure, everyone loved 'Raymond.' But the actor-comedian worries: Will there be the same kind of love for his new TNT series about three middle-age guys?

Those who subscribe to the familiar adage "Dying is easy, comedy is hard" have not been hanging around lately with Ray Romano. The star and inspiration behind the hit family comedy "Everybody Loves Raymond" has discovered something far more difficult than comedy or sustaining a hit network sitcom.

 

A Writer Has Been Picked To Make 'Hansel and Gretel' Kick Butt

Writer Dante Harper has been hired to iron out the script for "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.""Dead Snow" co-writer/director Tommy Wirkola is helming the project for Gary Sanchez Prods. and Paramount. The Norwegian pitched and plotted out the story line, which picks up the fairy-tale siblings 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread house incident, which provoked them to become witch bounty hunters. Sanchez execs Kevin Messick, Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Chris Henchy are producing the horror-action comedy, which is pitched as having a gory-but-funny "Shaun of the Dead" vibe.

 

‘Modern Family’ reinvents the family comedy

Crazier than the Huxtables and sweeter than the Bluths, the Pritchett clam is reinventing the family comedy -- and viewers can totally relate.

 

'Wanda Sykes Show': Rough start

Ken Tucker loves the host, but her new late-night show's debut was trying too hard for too few laughs

 

Katie Holmes Joins The Romantics

Katie Holmes will step in for Liv Tyler in the cast of "The Romantics," a comedy about "eight friends from college who reunite for a wedding." Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Elijah Wood, Adam Brody and Jeremy Strong are also attached to star.

 

Television Review | '30 Rock': Still Biting the Hand That Feeds

A new season of “30 Rock” begins Thursday on NBC with comical reminders that the economic meltdown hasn’t blown over.

 

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