Fox News Channel and the Obama administration are talking. ...more

October 29, 2009

"American Idol," television's top-rated show, returns for its eighth season Tuesday. ...more

January 12, 2009

Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, opening a high-stakes foreign trip in a country that is increasingly the focus of his clash with Sen. John McCain in the presidential campaign over whether the war in Iraq has been a distraction in hunting down terrorists. ...more

July 20, 2008

Context is all: It's hard to imagine "The Middleman," a new ABC Family series, arriving as part of a broadcast network fall season, or doing well there, even though it has much in common with last year's "Chuck" and "Reaper," other stories of average folk drafted to fight extraordinary foes. ...more

June 16, 2008

The only thing we have to fear is "Fear Itself." Forgive me. I couldn't resist using that line to describe the new NBC horror anthology, which has borrowed its title from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural speech. ...more

June 4, 2008

Rupert Murdoch completed his $5 billion-plus deal to acquire Dow Jones & Co. on Thursday, adding The Wall Street Journal to his global media conglomerate News Corp. and ending a century of control by the Bancroft family. ...more

December 14, 2007

The networks' fall 2007 TV season begins tonight with a whimper. The big first-night debut: the reality spinoff 'Jail' (9 p.m., MyNetwork), arriving on a broadcast network that after a full year in business most viewers probably still don't know exists. ...more

September 4, 2007