American Idol winner Kris Allen has officially signed a record deal with Jive. — Billboard Masi Oka conceived of the idea for and will executive produce the adventure film The Defenders for Dreamworks. — ComingSoon In Treatment might be too expensive for HBO to bring it back for a third season. — Broadcasting and Cable Neil Patrick Harris will join Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen in Read more

If you have HBO or Showtime, tonight's your lucky night — even moreso if you have both! One of Showtime's new signature series wraps up its first season tonight, while new seasons of acclaimed dramas begin on both Showtime and HBO. First, the finale: United States of Tara's first season ends tonight, with Tara preparing to face head-on the man she believes to be the cause of her dissociative Read more

I'm still catching up on the first season of In Treatment on DVD, but that doesn't make me any less excited for this first glimpse of season two, which will start April 5 on HBO. This season's schedule for the show, which stars Gabriel Byrne as a therapist, is a little more forgiving. Instead of airing five nights a week, two of the half-hour episodes will play on Sundays with three more Read more

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my selections below, you can also add Zack Snyder's animated Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter to your queue. Quantum of Solace It seems like just yesterday we were puzzling over the Read more

The Big Bang Theory has been renewed for two seasons and Two and a Half Men for three. — TV.com Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke will direct a film adaptation of Gayle Forman's upcoming novel, If I Stay, for Summit Entertainment. — Zap2It Elle Macpherson is returning to acting with a recurring role on CW's drama pilot Beautiful Life. — The Hollywood Reporter Universal has picked up a Read more

Though many people thought The Soloist (and its lead actors, Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.) would be up for Oscars this year, Paramount has pushed the movie's release from Nov. 21, 2008 to March 13, 2009. — Variety Hugh Grant is bowing out of the romantic comedy Lost for Words due to differences of opinion on the script. — ComingSoon Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been Read more

Nine weeks of therapy wasn't enough for HBO. The network has decided to renew In Treatment for a second season. The show, which stars Gabriel Byrne as a therapist, is one of the more unusual programs to appear on HBO in recent years. The half-hour show aired five days a week, Monday through Friday, with each day focusing on a session with a different patient. For the first four days of the week, Read more

HBO's intriguing — but not for the commitment-phobic — nightly series, In Treatment, isn't exactly an overnight sensation. The show's premiere last week got the lowest numbers for an HBO series premiere ever. But maybe it's not quite time to panic yet, considering all the other ways HBO is making In Treatment available to HBO subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Personally, I've been Read more