By Associated Press The Kingdom Holding company headed by the Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal which says it plans to launch a new Arabic television news channel in partnership with the Fox network. In a statement Tuesday, Prince Alwaleed says the 24-hour broadcast channel “will be an...

By Associated Press Wailing mourners wiped away tears Friday as they bid an emotional farewell to a popular South Korean actor and singer whose suicide stunned fans at home and in neighboring Japan. Park Yong-ha, 33, killed himself Wednesday in distress over career and family pressures, the latest in...

By Associated Press If CNN U.S. President Jon Klein is lucky, he was getting phone calls Wednesday from some people he never expected to contact him. A handful of potential successors have already emerged to take over for Larry King when he leaves his prime-time CNN interview show sometime this fall....

By Associated Press Country singer and “Dancing With The Stars” pro Julianne Hough isn’t making her romantic life public, but she is giving hints that rumors linking her to “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest are true. When asked Tuesday whether she is dating Seacrest, Hough...

By Associated Press Who is the “Big Brother” saboteur? That’s the question that contestants will no doubt be consumed with on the 12th edition of CBS’ voyeuristic reality TV series, which confines a group of strangers — or houseguests, as they’re known on the show —...

By Associated Press CNN said Monday that it’s no longer using Associated Press content after the two sides could not agree on a contract extension. The AP confirmed that the two news organizations differed on terms for licensing AP stories, photos, video and other content beyond the June 30 expiration...

A review of tonight’s insanely great “Breaking Bad” (aka The Best Show on TV Right Now) coming up just as soon as I look like a TV weatherman… “I’m just not the man I thought I was.” -Hank Um… uh… um… WOW. Sorry, just need another minute to...

“Chuck” is back after a couple of weeks off, and I have a review coming up just as soon as I pretend to be Canadian to be well-liked… “But off the record, it’s about damn time.” -General Beckman What she said. I wrote a bit about this episode in today’s column...

Big announcement today, folks: a week from tomorrow, I will be leaving The Star-Ledger full-time and going to work at HitFix.com , and this blog will be going with me. Please allow me to explain… Here’s the deal: on Monday, May 3, I’ll say goodbye to The Star-Ledger newsroom, post...

A few weeks ago, I noted reports that Fox was leaning towards making this season of “24″ the last one, after which Kiefer Sutherland might star in a “24″ feature film. Well, Fox made the news official a couple of hours ago, and Denise Martin talked to Kiefer and producer Howard...