TV and Movie News (page 1041)

Jenna Fischer has reportedly set something straight: casting won't hold up whether "The Office" returns this coming fall. Dunder Mifflin's Pam Beasley reportedly told The Hollywood Reporter recently that every main player the acclaimed-but-showing-its-age comedy could need back is ready, waiting and willing. That includes herself, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms and writer/supporting performer Mindy Kaling, she said.

One could settle for simply picking up "The Walking Dead"�game anthology's first episode, "A New Day", by its lonesome when it hits the PlayStation Network April 24. Or one could pick up the entire five-episode first run and get a little extra for one's trouble. To each, their zombie-slayin' own.

He might not be a real doctor. He might only have played one once upon a time on TV. That doesn't mean the politics of modern medicine don't touch something deep within Noah Wyle. The one-time "E.R." doctor John Carter has been arrested in Washington, D.C. today, People reports. He was one among 100 taken into custody today during a gathering by ADAPT on Capitol Hill.

Every mind capable of pioneering vision started somewhere. So bookmark and cherish this description and video. One day, you'll look back on this and tell your great-grandchildren that the digital dynamos that made the omni-tool technology in Mass Effect, Netflix-streaming brain implants and planes made of black-box material a reality got his or her start turning a building into a big-ass Gameboy.

She's not yet once more big-screen bound. But as she did when she hosted "Saturday Night Live" last month, Lindsay Lohan is looking at headling on television as a step back in the right direction. The previously troubled actress has been confirmed by Lifetime today to be locked in to soon play late Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming "Liz & Dick", The Huffington Post has reported.

Well, there's a saying about this kind of thing: if you can't beat 'em, take to the pages of your magazine celebrating the nude female form and tell the Republican Party what's what. Playboy Publising/Sexual Revolution icon Hugh Hefner has apparently heard all he cares to from Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and others about how sexuality will destroy America.

"American Idol" runner-up and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson lost composure during her testimony opening her former brother-in-law's murder trial in Chicago, the Associated Press has reported. Hudson's name was one among 300 potential witnesses for the prosecution, one whose presence during the trial was speculated to possibly be a hindrance to a pure verdict, and the one whose tearful words opened the proceedings this morning.

With five, four and three nods respectively, start considering a CMT Awards drinking game based on hearing "Carrie Underwood", "Miranda Lambert" and "Taylor Swift" repeatedly June 6. As announced this morning on NBC's "Today", Underwood's five nominations include her videos for singles "Good Girl" and the Brad Paisley collaboration "Remind Me" among the 10 clips seeking Video of the Year honors.

"Mad Men" experiments with time (and drugs) in this episode, which sees Peggy having a Heinz problem, Roger re-evaluating his marriage, and Don and Megan having a serious fight.

This week's action includes some truly brutal scenes, more of Joffrey being a total dick, more of Tyrion laying the smackdown, more of Arya and Gendry being in some serious trouble, and more of Littlefinger being a snake. Oh, and the birth of a strange shadow creature.