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CBS and Showtime chief Les Moonves officially confirmed that the eighth season of Showtime's serial killer-themed drama series DEXTER, starring Broadway and Hollywood regular Michael C. Hall, would be its final in a conference call earlier today.

BUNHEADS creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has opened up about her desire for a renewal of the Cult hit ABC Family series BUNHEADS, starring multi-Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, following the first season finale of the series which aired last week.

Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon star in HBO's forthcoming major TV film event BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and the first teaser trailer has just been released for the biopic of the iconic pianist.

Today we are talking to a tremendously talented triple-threat who headlined the 2007 feature film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical HAIRSPRAY as Tracy Turnblad and who will be appearing in a recurring role on SMASH Season Two starting tonight - the spunky and adorable Nikki Blonsky. In this all-encompassing conversation, Blonsky and I dissect the HAIRSPRAY phenomenon and she reveals her affection for collaborators such as director Adam Shankman, co-stars John Travolta and Christopher Walken, as well as two more pairs of instrumental creative team members: songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman as well as producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, all four of whom serve the same roles on SMASH. Of course, Blonsky reveals details about her new SMASH character and what we can expect from her multi-episode arc, as well as her experiences sharing the small screen with Anjelica Huston, Christian Borle, Debra Messing and more. Additionally, Blonsky opens up about her exciting upcoming film projects, namely: THE ENGLISH TEACHER, co-starring Julianne Moore and Nathan Lane, as well as GEOGRAPHY CLUB, co-starring GLEE's Alex Newell. Plus, all about her collaboration in the recording studio with Duncan Sheik, her thoughts on HAIRSPRAY 2 and much, much more!

William Shakespeare's most horrific and bloody tragedy, MACBETH, is getting an update via a new all-African American feature film adaptation, with no less than Terrence Howard and Sanaa Lathan headlining the cast.

SMASH star Katharine McPhee lends her preeminent pop vocal prowess to the Death Cab For Cutie confection 'Some Boys' on an upcoming episode of the musical drama series, as a new clip just released by NBC reveals.

Today we are celebrating one of the most beloved special entertainment events of all time - originally an original musical written for television, presented live, actually - which has now been retrofitted, refigured and wholly reinvented into an entirely new experience live on Broadway byway of the brand new stage adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's CINDERELLA, which opens this weekend!

HARRY POTTER star Emma Watson has her eye on the title role in director Kenneth Branagh's new live-action feature film adaptation of CINDERELLA and Disney is in early talks with her to star in the soon-to-be-shot fairy tale.

Surprise recent Brit hit THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL is getting a sequel and screenwriter Ol Parker has confirmed that it is more than merely likely that multi-award-winning acting icon Maggie Smith will return in her role of Muriel Donnelly for the next chapter.

Emmy Award-winning WILL & GRACE star Sean Hayes returns to the small screen next week - on an NBC series starring Debra Messing, no less - on Tuesday night's new episode of the musical series SMASH, playing a neurotic star stage actor headlining the new Season Two musical-within-the-series to follow last year's BOMBSHELL, this one titled LIAISONS!

In an brand new exclusive interview with Rolling Stone, iconic Green Day frontman and AMERICAN IDIOT composer Billie Joe Artmstrong opens up about his battle with addiction and the the road to recovery.

Frequent stage star Hamish Linklater - most recently seen on Broadway in Theresa Rebeck's SEMINAR last year and previously in the star-studded Shakespeare In The Park production of AS YOU LIKE IT in 2009 - has just joined the cast of the new David E. Kelley pilot THE CRAZY ONES, co-starring Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Wolk.

Genre-redefining movie musical PITCH PERFECT may already have been released in movie theaters and is now out on DVD and Blu-ray, but the momentum for the Cult hit is growing still - a radio single from the soundtrack is on the way, featuring breakout star Anna Kendrick!

Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton lends her effotlessly erudite and ethereal Style to a major role in the new music video for David Bowie's first single in a decade, 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'.

The long-awaited trailer for the third season of HBO's massively successful fantasy series Game of Thrones has in two short days become the most-viewed trailer for any show in HBO history.

Promises, promises - those made, broken, surpassed and a few prolonged. Last night's Academy Awards telecast was one of the most entertaining and exceptionally glamorous in many a year and executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron made good - hell, great - on their promise to deliver a true blue tribute to music in the movies as well as a whole lot more. And deliver they did - it was absolutely excellent in almost every conceivable way. Really. What more could you want?! Especially for fans of Hollywood and Broadway, it was an unforgettable awards show to cherish, with a sleek, witty and delightful presentation - snappy, smart and precisely planned (extended running time notwithstanding). As Seth MacFarlane said prior to Meryl Streep's presentation of Best Actor, “Ladies and gentlemen, our next presenter needs no introduction,” and, so, we real movie musical fans should have assumed this would be a jubilant joy - and so it was. A triptych of movie musical showstoppers thanks to Catherine Zeta Jones & CHICAGO, Jennifer Hudson & DREAMGIRLS and Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway (and company) & LES MISERABLES, as well as Shirley Bassey and Adele setting the stupefyingly gorgeously designed (sets by Derek McLane), lensed and presented show alight with “Goldfinger” and “Skyfall” as part of a James Bond 50th Anniversary showcase all the way to a refined and resplendent Barbra Streisand/Marvin Hamlisch memory for us to let linger lovingly in our memories - and, with relish - last night's Oscars was a Broadway baby's dream and an awards show junkie's delight as well as much, much more. Was it long? Yes. Was it overlong? Perhaps. Was it worth it and then some? Yes, yes, yes - oh, yes. Oh, and as far as heretofore question-mark host Seth MacFarlane and making the most of his unenviable duties? F*** yeah, man! Ted, too. And, oh, yeah - Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her gown on the way to the stage! But, so what?! Like the rest of the night, it was a refreshing slap in the face and a reminder of how wonderful awards shows can be.

Today we are shifting our focus from the stages of Broadway and beyond to the stages of the previous 84 Academy Awards telecasts that have transpired to date, in anticipation of Sunday night's big, big, big show. After all, this year's Academy Awards is of particular interest and excitement to theatre fans around the globe, especially because super-producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are behind it - the men responsible for the hit stage-to-screen adaptations of CHICAGO and HAIRSPRAY, as well as the small-screen successes GYPSY, LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND: ME & MY SHADOWS, ANNIE, and, most recently, NBC's musical series SMASH, to name a few of their many marvelous musical-friendly credits. They told me themselves earlier this week that this year's telecast would be the most music-packed Academy Awards show to date, and, just judging from the announced tributes, performers and presenters thus far it is clear to see that they were not kidding - reunions of the casts of the film versions of CHICAGO and LES MISERABLES live onstage, singing their film's most famous songs to Jennifer Hudson leading a DREAMGIRLS tribute all the way to a James Bond 50th anniversary celebration featuring Adele and Shirley Bassey on some famous Bond themes, as well as Barbra Streisand herself singing 'The Way We Were' in memory of friend and collaborator, three-time Oscar-winner Marvin Hamlisch.

The first image of indie screen darling and frequent TV presence Rose McGowan appearing in a new role on ABC's fairy tale-themed series Once Upon a Time has been revealed.

NEWSIES and SMASH star Jeremy Jordan has just Tweeted that he is indeed going to be portraying the lead male role of Jamie in the new feature film adaptation of THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown.

The vaunted NY Philharmonic is in the process of porting over a stupefying collection of sheet music, conductor's scores and other musical memorabilia according to new report.