Mr. Donner was part of the British New Wave filmmakers with “The Caretaker”and “What’s New Pussycat?”

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The actress Florencia Lozano of “One Life to Live”has written “underneathmybed”—an Off Broadway play about Argentina’s “disappeared”—that is anything but soapy.

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Two shows begin this week on CW: “Nikita,”an adaptation of “La Femme Nikita,”and “Hellcats,”about cheerleaders.

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The new program, called "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," will be shown on public television starting in January.

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He is praised as a great journalist and friend of France.

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Nicole Polizzi, better known as Snooki from MTV's "Jersey Shore," was given a fine and sentenced to community service for disturbing beachgoers in an incident in July.

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NBC’s buildup for “The Event”includes online promotions and a strategy of saying very little about the scripts.

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The television series “White Shadow,”shown in Turkey from 1980 to 1982, had a major impact on the growth of basketball there.

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Air Force and Navy bases said they would refuse to sell a soon-to-be-released combat-simulation game, Medal of Honor.

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The Jets’long search for an extreme makeover has accelerated with their starring role in the HBO series “Hard Knocks.”

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Mr. Dortort’s “Bonanza”broke the mold for westerns by focusing on a loving family rather than outlaws.

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“The House of Steinbrenner,”part of ESPN’s “30 for 30”series, tries to do too much and ultimately is unsatisfying.

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David Westin’s resignation as president represents, in the words of one long-time television news executive, “an inflection point”for the television news industry.

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Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James play struggling detectives on the fringes in “Terriers.”

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David Westin said that after 14 years, it was time to move on; the financial standing of the news division may also be a factor.

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“Sons of Anarchy,”which has presciently captured the nativist strain running on the edges of American life, begins its third season on FX on Tuesday.

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Lawrence Wright expands on his one-man theatrical look at Al Qaeda, which was based on his book “The Looming Tower.”

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Television, which was once the brain-dead part of the day, has become one more thing that requires time, attention and discernment.

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New fall sitcoms (like “Raising Hope”and “Outsourced”) and dramas (“My Generation”) suggest a pervasive national sense of pessimism and decline.

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The Associated Press will not share images of the Koran being burned in an event being planned by a Florida pastor.

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Google has a new advertising campaign for its own display ad platform.

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Politico makes a foray into opinion journalism, hiring the MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and the columnist Michael Kinsley from The Atlantic to write dueling weekly columns.

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