So much for my Family Jules idea. The exhaustive search for a new title for ABC’s Cougar Town—one that better reflects the show’s evolution from single-woman-on-the-prowl sitcom to dysfunctional-family comedy—has been scrapped, exec producer Bill Lawrence confirms to me exclusively.

Did Emmy winner Terry O’Quinn prove himself such an interesting actor on Lost that fans will follow him anywhere? Like to Lifetime? The network confirms that he’s set to star in the upcoming true story Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin

Actor Greg Sestero once thanked me for giving him a career after I wrote an article about his cult movie The Room. In fact, the man he should have been thanking was Michael Rousselet, a leading light of the self-explanatory

Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. First up: the swirling rumors, news, and confirmations emanating from FOX about the changes at American Idol... The big news from last night of course is the departure of Ellen DeGeneres from FOX's American

* Former Friend Matt LeBlanc is well endowed. Well, the fictional version of himself that he plays on Showtime’s upcoming comedy Episodes is well endowed—a plot point he joked was a deal-breaker during negotiations. * The biggest problem with Joey,

In attendance: star Ed Westwick and exec producers Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz, and Joshua Safran. * My French sucks, but the first-look trailer we were treated to of Blair and Serna’s Parisian adventure was très magnifique! Vote0

At today's Dexter session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, the cast and crew of the Showtime serial killer drama united on stage--a week after appearing in San Diego to promote the series--to discuss the fifth season, how

On the comedy front, if there's one series that I'm anxiously awaiting, it's Showtime's Episodes, co-produced with Auntie Beeb. The Hollywood skewering series--which stars Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, John Pankow, Mircea Monroe, and Kathleen Perkins--was created by former

The new season of How I Met Your Mother, executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas tell us, will be more like early ones, less like the most recent one. Oh, and like nothing you’ve seen before. Wha? “We’ll be,

We may have just found our next J.J. Abrams project to obsess over: According to The Hollywood Reporter, the guy who brought Star Trek back to life has decided to produce a big screen version of Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel,