By Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times (MCT) NEW YORK — At its upfront presentation Wednesday in New York City, the online streaming service Hulu touted its aggressive expansion into original programming...

By Rick Bentley The Fresno Bee (MCT) It will be approximately 2 million “tick ... tick ... ticks” of the clock between when Jack Bauer’s last world-saving events of “24” ended and the start...

By Neal Justin Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) The upside of enduring the dreariest winter since the Ice Age: Plenty of excuses to stay inside and warm ourselves by the glow of our television sets. In...

Yvonne Villarreal Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES — Netflix has extended the sentence of “Orange Is the New Black” to a third season. Ahead of its second season rollout, which gets unleashed...

By Luis Gomez Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO — Seth Meyers broke out a Chicago accent during his monologue on last Thursday’s episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” when joking about the city’s...

By Joe Flint Los Angeles Times (MCT) A new study by Nielsen shows that while the typical American household has almost 200 channels to choose from, viewers typically only watch about 17 networks on...

By Meg James Los Angeles Times (MCT) Steve Capus, who earned his stripes at NBC News as wingman for anchors Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, soon will be piloting the cross-town rival “The CBS Evening...

By Bill Lindelof The Sacramento Bee (MCT) SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Eric Hill, a former resident of Citrus Heights and a contestant on an upcoming edition of the television series “The Bachelorette,”...

By Ryan Faughnder Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES — Comedian Stephen Colbert will be the next host of “The Late Show.” CBS said Thursday that the “Colbert Report” star will take...

By Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times (MCT) NEW YORK — Veteran TV journalist Barbara Walters will make her last scheduled appearance on “The View” on May 16, ABC announced Monday. The network...

By Dale Roe Austin American-Statesman (MCT) Ladies and lords — sharpen your swords! “Game of Thrones” is back. Elsewhere, country artists get back pats and Gordon Ramsay revisits a psycho...

By Gail Pennington St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga has already filled five volumes and almost 6,000 pages, with two more books promised. “Game...