36 stories by "Lynn Elber"
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Even if you're trying to put the squeeze on a ballooning TV watchlist, consider the pedigree of NBC's "Rise": It's fro…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NBC's new drama "Rise" arrives with an impressive pedigree....
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The Fox broadcasting network, home to "The Simpsons" and "The Orville," will continue to air scripted entertainment after …
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudevil…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bette Midler is renewing an allegation of sexual misconduct against Geraldo Rivera, a day after Rivera called the news business "flirty."...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America's most beloved television moms in "The Brady Bunch," has died, …
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful matriarch of "The …
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Tim Curry's participation in Fox TV's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" helped erode fan resistance to a remake of the …
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The rarefied sorority of Disney princesses has come a long way since 1937's Snow White set the tone, gradually expanding to add Asian, African-American, N…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Surgeon Callie Torres is turning in her scalpel at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Ford Riley was tasked with adding a new TV project to Disney's treasured - and lucrative - "Lion King" screen and stage franchise, …
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In "The Facts of Life," Charlotte Rae played the unflappable Mrs. Garrett, a girls' school housemother who smoothly guided her charges t…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Musical theater great Chita Rivera has friendly advice for young stars who are unable to dance and sing at the same time: Learn how....
Benedict Cumberbatch's pals call him Ben. Viewers of his TV performance as a 21st-century Sherlock Holmes tend to favor "brilliant."
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rita Moreno's guest-starring turn Monday on "Jane the Virgin" represents a tribute from the comedy's young Latina star, Gina Rodriguez, to the trailblazer who helped …
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sure, "Downton Abbey" is easy to love with its romance, high fashion and Ye Olde McMansion. But PBS' "Wolf Hall" boasts its own seductive strength, courtesy of a 16th…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "The Wiz" is coming to TV and back to Broadway with productions from NBC and Cirque du Soleil....
The son of Edward Herrmann says the "Gilmore Girls" star and Tony Award-winner has died....
Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Taye Diggs can claim an actor's version of scoring a hat trick: He's worked with a trio of television's most innovative writer-producers....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Shirley Jones can't wait to jump into her birthday plans....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous write…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lucille Ball's classic antics are colorized in an "I Love Lucy" holiday special airing on CBS. But daughter Lucie Arnaz's vivid family Christmas memories don't requir…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Franco has discovered Ovation. So have Jon Hamm and Vogue's Anna Wintour....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A movie-size blockbuster is a rarity on the small screen, the Super Bowl aside, but "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" boasts the pedigree to make a run at it....
