Entertainment

Award-winning actor Charlie Sheen has broken his silence on contract renewal talks for his hit TV program, "Two and a Half Men," saying that if his role ends after the program's current season, "so be it."

Ratings-challenged CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is about to experiment with a live studio audience.

A former FBI agent who is a specialist in white collar crime has been chosen as interim trustee to carry out a federal bankruptcy court judge's order to oversee and examine the operations and books of five companies run by David Bergstein, including Capitol Films and ThinkFilm.

Agencies are crying foul over the Festival de Cannes' deal with French broadcasters that may cause restrictions on video coverage of the event.

HBO has picked up the Mike White-Laura Dern comedy pilot "Enlightened" to series with a 9-episode order.

Discovery Channel on Thursday unveiled a lineup of new specials and series for its 2010-11 season.

"Tosh.0" hasn't even been on the air for a year and already Comedy Central is renewing the show for a third season.

Prohibited from showing Kate Gosselin parenting her eight "Jon & Kate" co-stars as originally planned, the network will announce a new series at its upfront presentation in New York on Thursday where Gosselin travels the country to assist other families.

Mare Winningham has landed the last major role on HBO's miniseries "Mildred Pierce."

The reason that bids for Miramax are coming in under what Disney would have liked might have something to do with the niche label's library.

EXCLUSIVE: Faizon Love, Emily Rios, Portia Doubleday and Michelle Ang have been cast in Fox's "Big Momma's House" threequel opposite Martin Lawrence.

Television writer-producer Hilary Winston has sold a feature pitch to Paramount based on her upcoming book, "My Ex-Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me."

The co-founder of DVDXpress, which merged with Redbox last year, has initiated a proxy battle with Blockbuster, hoping to make himself a company director.

Tiger Woods and other star athletes are going 3D. As the Masters golf tournament gets under way and with World Cup soccer coming in June, 3D is getting a big kick forward just before the start of the National Association of Broadcasters convention, which opens this weekend in Las Vegas.

Reid Ewing has booked a lead role in the new MTV project "The Truth Below."

"Glee" star Cory Monteith and "Melrose Place" star Katie Cassidy are packing up their bags for "Monte Carlo," joining Selena Gomez in the teen adventure movie.

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Lane will star in HBO's upcoming film "Cinema Verite," the behind-the-scenes look at the making of "An American Family."

On-location film and TV shoots rose 18% in the L.A. area through March.

VIDEO: The battle for supremacy at the domestic boxoffice this weekend amounts to the clash of a titanic 3D holdover and a comedy for the date-movie crowd.

CBS programming executive Chris Carlson is leaving the network to help produce breakout reality hit "Undercover Boss."