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In “Luck,” starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Michael Mann, horses, and people, jostle for position.

Comedian Stephen Colbert says that just because his name won't appear on Saturday's ballot in South Carolina's Republican primary doesn't mean he couldn't become president, or even pope, someday....

There was little change at the top of the primetime basic cable rankings for 2011, with USA finishing the year as No.1 in total viewers and adults 18-49 for a sixth consecutive time on the strength of its original series. The cable network added another hit to its original slate this year with rookie Suits. There was one change each in the Top 5 among total viewers and 18-49 from 2010. History broke into the Top 5 among total viewers after doing the same among adults 18-49 last year, while siblings TNT and TBS swapped places in the top 18-49 echelon. (Network rankings after the jump.)

AMC announced on Tuesday (December 27) that "Hell on Wheels" has been renewed for a second season.

Jonathan Ames, the creator of the recently canceled HBO series “Bored to Death,” invited local fans to join him at a Boerum Hill bar Wednesday in its memory.

When the Dallas Mavericks traded for Lamar Odom last weekend, they didn't just receive a star forward: they're also getting a gigantic media empire. The long NBA trade saga that finally saw Odom leave Los Angeles will mean that wife Khloe Kardashian will also leave her longtime home. "Khloe and Lamar," the couple's reality series, will focus in part on the move and its ramifications for their marriage, E!, the family's TV network, said on Tuesday.

'I feel like my heart broke telling my children': Hoping to find out the gender of their unborn baby at a checkup, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar instead found out that she's suffered a miscarriage in the second trimester, People magazine reports.

Losses will mount at the Oprah Winfrey OWN network as investment is ramped up, said David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications.

Undaunted by the health challenges of her last pregnancy, matriarch Michelle Duggar tells TODAY Moms she's expecting baby number 20, craving pickles and feeling great.

Dish Network, the smaller of the nation's two satellite broadcasters, saw profit and revenue rise last quarter but lost 111,000 subscribers, citing intense competition -- including heavy discounting by rivals -- a weak housing market and lower discretionary spending by consumers.