LONDON, April 19 (UPI) -- "Slumdog Millionaire" actor Anil Kapoor is to star in a Mumbai-set version of the American television thriller "24," the BBC reported.
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- Comic actress and writer Kristen Wiig told "Access Hollywood" she felt a "little lost" after she wrapped her seven-year stint on "Saturday Night Live."
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- Ann Curry told her friends being ousted as co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show in New York last year felt like a death, author Brian Stelter said.
LOS ANGELES, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. actor and talk-show host Joel McHale, who has been married to his wife Sarah Williams for 17 years, says talk about him being gay is "flattering."
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- Amanda Knox writes in her memoir she considered killing herself while imprisoned four years in Italy for a murder she says she did not commit.
LOS ANGELES, April 19 (UPI) -- Janelle Arthur, a 23-year-old Tennessee native, was eliminated from the singing competition series "American Idol" in Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Rapper Jay-Z, tennis star Li Na and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., are on Time magazine's list of the world's most 100 most influential people, announced Thursday.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Talk-show host Stephen Colbert praised the strength and resilience of Bostonians in a funny, but heartfelt monologue following this week's bombings.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Eva Longoria will lend her voice to the main character, a former music executive and mom, on the U.S. animated comedy series "Mother Up," TVGuide.com said.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- George Lopez, Bob Newhart and Mike Epps will be seen in "Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic," a documentary to air in the United States on Showtime.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Dick Van Dyke's publicist said the actor-comedian has canceled a public appearance in New York next week because he is suffering from a neurological disorder.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts said on Facebook she is out of the hospital after falling ill last week while on vacation in Key West, Fla.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Monday's bomb-themed episode of the New York-set cop drama "Castle" has been replaced following the explosions at the Boston Marathon, EW.com said.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Actor/comedian Don Rickles is to be honored with the Friars Club's Lifetime Achievement Award for Comedy at a gala in New York, organizers announced.
LAS VEGAS, April 18 (UPI) -- Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan is to serve as host of the 2013 Billboard Music Awards ceremony in Las Vegas next month, ABC announced.
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Colombian-born actress Sofia Vergara told "Good Morning America" she has frozen her eggs in case she wants to have more children.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- Starz says it has ordered a second season of its Italian Renaissance-set series "Da Vinci's Demons," starring Tom Riley as artist-inventor Leonardo Da Vinci.
NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- Whoopi Goldberg told UsMagazine.com she doesn't "give a [expletive]" about the future of "The View," the New York talk show where she has worked since 2007.
ATLANTA, April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. cable network TBS said Wednesday stand-up comedian Theo Von is to serve as host of its new hidden-camera show, "Deal With It."
ASHEVILLE, N.C., April 17 (UPI) -- Famed gospel singer George Beverly Shea has died in Asheville, N.C., the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said. He was 104.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are to return as producers on next year's Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said.
LOS ANGELES, April 17 (UPI) -- "Friends" co-creator Marta Kauffman says there is no truth to the rumor claiming cast members of the New York-set sitcom are reuniting for an 11th season.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- DIRECTV said Wednesday it has ordered 10 episodes of "Full Circle," an original U.S. drama series from playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute.