After a well-crafted and moving episode set against the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the best drama on television ends its third season on Sunday.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year’s festival.

The legendary Hulk Hogan is coming out of retirement to join a new cable TV wrestling show.

Michael Jackson’s death in June left promoter AEG holding the bag, with 50 sold-out shows at London’s O2 Arena canceled.

DETROIT (AP) — Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Reality as a TV genre will never die, but some long-running favorites are showing their age this season.

Despite widespread speculation that Jay Leno is about to send NBC into oblivion, his 10 p.m. weeknight talk show is doing about what the network expected, as far as ratings are concerned.

You’ll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO’s “Entourage” and AMC’s “Mad Men” on your computer by the end of the year without paying extra - as long as you’re a Comcast Corp. subscriber watching at home.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Forget red.

As a documentary filmmaker, Sandra Dickson’s travels have taken her to Cuba, the Czech Republic and Panama.

The best thing about the release this week of the new/old Michael Jackson song “This Is It”? That Paul Anka might finally get some Grammy cred.

Paul Brown makes himself heard. And people keep listening when he does.

Comedian Chris Rock is at again.

When it comes to recording television programs for later viewing, Democrats like “Saving Grace” while Republicans prefer “Deadliest Catch.“

As a child growing up in High Point, Debra Terry knew she wanted to be a comedian.

A powerful and charming 62-year-old boss has sex with young women in his office. Sounds like one of the storylines from “Mad Men.“

Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening and Cherry Jones will be among the headliners at this year’s Virginia Film Festival.

CULPEPER, Va. - The world’s biggest rock star dropped by downtown Culpeper last Thursday for an impromptu late lunch overlooking East Street. The absolute lack of fanfare surrounding the incident was almost as incredible as his fleeting appearance.

Movies are a great source of style inspiration: they can capture the look of an era or create a style that just begs to be taken to the streets.

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the nation’s best idea, Ken Burns, says: the national parks system.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A year after its least-watched telecast ever, the Emmy Awards plaintively acknowledged TV’s changing role in the Internet age, bringing a collective sense of reckoning to the revamped show with everything from scripted jokes about the decline of networks to unemployed stars openly job-seeking.

NEW YORK (AP) — Friday marked the final flicker of CBS’ “Guiding Light,“ as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.

By spring, Harry Potter fans will be able to visit a replica of Hogwarts Castle, sip on pumpkin juice at the Hog’s Head Pub and munch on Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans at a candy shop – all within the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction in the Universal Orlando Resort.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,“ has died. He was 73.

Mary Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit “Puff (The Magic Dragon),“ died in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.

Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Kanye West get his Hugh Grant moment on Jay Leno’s new show?

Winfrey is still the queen of daytime television, but the aura of invincibility is gone. The average viewership for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” slipped under 7 million last season, down 7 percent from the year before.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis are the first Oscar winners of the season.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres is known for being nice. But the new “American Idol” judge says she’s tough enough to be honest with the show’s contestants.