Vanessa Hudgens will reportedly star in Beastly, a Manhattan-set, modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast, based on Alex Flinn's young-adult novel. — ComingSoon Christopher Gorham will return as Henry in the finale of Ugly Betty. — Entertainment Weekly Simon Cowell claims he'd leave American Idol if it stopped being the No. 1 show. — The Hollywood Reporter The 3-D "motion picture event," Read more

Once Pushing Daisies is done, the final episodes of Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money will also air Saturday nights on ABC this Summer. — Entertainment Weekly Borat director Larry Charles is in talks to direct the comedy Winter's Discontent about a "sexually frustrated widower" who moves into a retirement community. — ComingSoon NBC's Kings has been bumped from Sunday to Saturday. Read more

NBC's Kings, which premieres tonight, is a vastly ambitious series, set in an alternate universe at a time of war and based on the Biblical story of David and Goliath. It has a fantastic cast, including Ian McShane as the powerful King Silas and relative newcomer Christopher Egan as young David. And while it doesn't necessarily get everything right in tonight's two-hour premiere, I'm curious to Read more

NBC's Kings had one of the more infamous panels at the TCA press tour last Summer, complete with star Ian McShane berating reporters. Lost in the drama, though, was the fact that the clips we saw of the show actually looked pretty great. Set to the regal sounds of Coldplay's "Vida la Vida," the show played out like a hypercolor modern version of the David and Goliath story, with McShane as the Read more

The Smurfs turned 50 this week! — The Independent Ben Stiller may now be the director of The Trial of the Chicago 7. — The Hollywood Reporter Macaulay Culkin has joined the cast of Kings on NBC. — Entertainment Weekly Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent have joined the cast of the comedy-thriller Perrier's Bounty. — Variety Crispin Glover is the latest actor to join Tim Burton's Alice in Read more

NBC started off this year's Upfronts more than a month early this afternoon, kicking off the frenzy of Fall TV announcements with its no-frills presentation (which took the form of either a PowerPoint presentation or a conference call, depending on where you were). While the format of the announcements wasn't thrilling, the content will give us much to speculate about over the next few months. Read more

Once, he played a cunning criminal. Now, he's ruling an ancient nation. Deadwood's Ian McShane has joined the cast of NBC's drama Kings, which is based on the life of the Biblical king of Israel. He will play King Silas, modeled on the Bible's King Saul, who welcomes David (Christopher Egan) into his court but ultimately becomes jealous and vengeful toward him. Kings hasn't shot a pilot yet, Read more