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Instead of creating a new category for “popular” films, limit Best Picture contenders to box office champs.

With “The Last O.G,” the comedian who beat death proves the original gangster is a comeback kid.

Super Bowl ads usually offer brief opportunities for escapism – from both reality and the big game. Last year’s commercial crop did an OK job of entertaining between plays.

Their Netflix interview marks an opportunity for both to set the tone for life after the biggest jobs either will ever have.

The Beatle turns 75 Sunday as he gets set to tour, a testament to timeless music rooted in the power and possibility of youth.

Jimmy Kimmel’s 3 1/2-hour search to find the right tone for an Academy Awards broadcast that uneasily mixed humor and politics ended appropriately: in mass confusion. The stunning, apparent “wrong-envelope” debacle in which favorite “La La Land” was announced as the best picture winner by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway – only to be given to “Moonlight” moments later –...

Sure, it’s a good movie. But the musical’s prospects of Oscar glory Sunday represent a tired song-and-dance from a Hollywood in love with itself.

“La La Land” arrives as a heavy favorite. But expect some drama beyond the musical.

The network’s 90th anniversary special, airing Sunday, offers a chance to look back and look ahead.

The actor’s latest “Saturday Night Live” hosting stint arrives amid buzz over Melissa McCarthy – and President Trump.

The comedian revives his cringe-worthy breakout TV character David Brent – and takes him on a timely concert tour, via Netflix.

Sunday brings an end to the season – and possibly the series – following one of the Baker Street detective’s strongest chapters.

The Christmas news of the British singer-songwriter’s premature death at age 53 seemed terribly at odds with his splashy introduction to the entertainment world: the preternaturally bouncy Wham! hit “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” whose upbeat eye-confection video turned “Choose Life” T-shirts into the teenage fashion statement of 1984. The unabashed cheery call to the dance floor kicked off...

Late night TV show comedy faces a new era with a president who fancies himself an entertainer and a critic.

The deaths of so many top musicians, from Prince and Glenn Frey to Merle Haggard and David Bowie offer stark reminders of the bittersweet power of song.

The movie, which goes into wide release Christmas Day, will test whether a brilliantly acted film version of a classic play can draw the crowds it deserves.

The awards competition with a quirky history that dates to the 1940s moves forward Jan. 8 with Jimmy Fallon as host.

Racially charged online calls to boycott “Rogue One” reflect increasingly ugly battles over politics and entertainment.

Fallon enters the game with a big advantage: He gets to go first.

The animated comedy’s 20th outing heads to a memorable ending Wednesday after weeks of upended expectations.