Middle America’s first family will take part in a Nativity, complete with Willie Robertson as Joseph and, irony of ironies, Uncle Si as a wise man — with, naturally, a chalice full of iced tea — in the “Duck Dynasty” Christmas special (10 p.m. Dec. 11, A&E). Just one the hundreds of holiday specials that will flood the airwaves during the next month.
CBS ordered “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of absence Tuesday following a critical internal review of their handling of the show’s October story on the Benghazi raid, based on a report on a supposed witness whose story can’t be verified.
How good is “Dallas Buyers Club”? Matthew McConaughey shed nearly 50 pounds for his role, blows the walls off of whatever boxes Hollywood has put him in and doesn’t utter a single “awright, awright, awright.”
Santa’s kind of a tool.
In a parody of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s splits between two moving Volvo trucks, actor Channing Tatum says he is mentally and physically able to “master the most epic of splits.”
Unless you’ve spent the past few weeks under a rock — assuming that rock lacked access to Wi-Fi, cellular data and over-the-air TV and radio transmissions, as well as run-of-the-mill chatterboxes — you’re now painfully aware that Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
Angela Lansbury says “it’s a mistake” for NBC to call a new series “Murder, She Wrote.”
As if winning the World Series MVP wasn’t enough, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is becoming a producer of his own MTV television show.
This year’s “Soul Train Awards” will originate from Las Vegas for the second year in a row, but most locals will watch the show where they are used to seeing it: on TV.
CBS News said Friday that it was misled by a “60 Minutes” source who claimed he was on the on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya when it now turns out there are serious doubts about whether he was.
Jimmy Kimmel’s annual Halloween prank gets lots of laughs at the cost of children’s tears and some child experts say that’s not a good thing.
He may not have won the Masters. (That’s the other guy.) And NBC is bungling “Parks and Recreation.” But it’s still a good time to be Adam Scott.
A Las Vegas man is hoping to get paid to have one of his testicles removed. In a trailer for the upcoming episode of TLC’s “Extreme Cheapskates,” Parisi says that he plans to participate in a medical trial in which one of his testicles will be removed in exchange for $35,000.
The health care overhaul might get a Hollywood rewrite. A private foundation is providing a $500,000 grant so TV writers will have information about the Affordable Care Act stitched into plot lines watched by millions.
