The British Academy of Film and Television/Los Angeles will honor Emily Blunt as British artist of the year on Nov. 5. — Variety Big Brother will be watching again starting July 9. — TV.com Chevy Chase is joining the cast of the time-travel comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. — ComingSoon How to watch the Britain's Got Talent finale if you're not in the UK. — AP Naval captain Richard Read more

TNT has renewed Saving Grace and Raising the Bar, while HBO has OK'd a second season of True Blood. — Zap2it Nicole Kidman may become an action star, now that she's in talks to be in the "character-driven, treasure-hunting" action-adventure The Eighth Wonder. — Hollywood Reporter Fred Wolf (director of The House Bunny) will write and direct the dude road trip movie Divorced Guys, which will Read more

ComingSoon reports that Harry Potter 6 will definitely be released in IMAX when it hits theaters November 21. ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert has died at the age of 62, writes Billboard. Though the current season hasn't been getting great ratings, another season of Big Brother has been slated for this summer, Reuters reports. CBS Films shelled out a cool $1 million for an untitled Dan Fogelman comedy Read more

Jordin Sparks will open for Alicia Keys on her North American As I Am tour that kicks off April 19 in Hampton, Virginia, E! Online reports. HBO's long-awaited adaptation of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams has a premiere date, according to Zap2It. The seven-part miniseries starring Paul Giamatti will start on Sunday, March 16. ComingSoon has news that the same guys Read more

Starting next week, we'll get to see how CBS' steamy summer reality hit, Big Brother, fares during the colder months. The ninth edition of the show, which kicks off on Tuesday, Feb. 12, brings us 16 new contestants to eavesdrop on several times a week. Of course, it wouldn't be Big Brother without a twist: This time, all 16 contestants are single, and when they arrive in the house, they'll be Read more