Larry Hagman will be paying a visit to Wisteria Lane when the former "Dallas" star appears in a guest role on "Desperate Housewives."

ABC says Hagman will play a love interest of Stella Wingfield, who is played by Polly Bergen on that network's prime-time soap opera. Stella is the mother of the character played by series star Felicity Huffman.

The 79-year-old Hagman, best-known as ruthless oil baron J.R. Ewing a quarter-century ago on the long-running "Dallas," more recently…

When US talkshow supremo Oprah Winfrey films her show Down Under this month, Karen Ferrazzo will celebrate by hosting a barbecue in her honour, complete with 'Oprah'-inspired snacks.

Ferrazzo, 36, is not expecting the megastar to descend on her home in Melbourne's leafy north for the event -- but the mother of two is fully expecting to get caught up in the 'Oprah fever' hitting the nation.

"Because we didn't win tickets (to Oprah's two Sydney shows) we decided the next best…

The owner of the Golden Globes has filed a juicy lawsuit against the production company behind the show, claiming it breached a contract and signed a secret deal to continue producing the telecast on U.S. network NBC for six years without the owner's consent.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Dick Clark Prods., which has produced the venerable film and TV awards show for almost 20 years.

Also named in the suite…

Timing is key in comedy and for at least one formerly unemployed talk-show host. While Conan O'Brien's departure from "Tonight" was part of a sorry mess, it was exquisitely in sync with the growing influence of social media.

Team Coco's adroit use of Twitter and Facebook in the months after O'Brien gave up his network TV platform gave him a direct pipeline to fans and new admirers, keeping him and his comic sensibility in a welcoming, computer-generated spotlight.

With Monday's…

Fox News Channel came out on top during the one hour of midterm election coverage when the three broadcast networks and the cable news channels competed head-to-head.

The Nielsen Co. said Thursday that Fox had 6.94 million viewers during the 10 p.m. hour Tuesday. NBC was second with 6.27 million, followed by CBS with 5.86 million and ABC with 5.53 million. CNN had 2.59 million viewers during that key hour and MSNBC had 2.04 million.

Even though NBC came in first among the…