entertainment - "television"

AP - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as 'Sock it to me!' has died. He was 86.

Comic Dick Martin, who starred with Dan Rowan in the hit 1960s television variety show 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In,' helping to launch the Hollywood careers of stars such as Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin, has died. He was 86.

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

Television in the poker world has been the driving force behind poker's popularity. Today there are so many TV shows featuring poker, that if you record them all on your DVRs each week, you'll run out of room! The expansion...

TV News: Defense Dept. to conduct inquiry -- Under pressure from the House of Representatives, the Defense Dept. will conduct an inquiry into its use of retired military officers as surrogates on network television news.

International News: CSA issues licenses to TF1, M6 -- France's broadcasting authority the CSA has issued HD digital terrestrial television licenses to private networks TF1 and M6 plus pubcasters France 2 and Arte.

Amanda Lorber is a case study in the perils that a young person faces when she becomes a reality-television star before she is old enough to vote.

The most recent adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1969 novel quakes with the noise of nearly every threat to our national well-being.

RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER)The Andromeda Strain: Sci-fi movie. 9 p.m. today and Tuesday on A&E. To be absolutely fair to the Ridley and Tony Scott remake of 'The Andromeda Strain,' which absorbs four hours and two nights on A&E starting today, the 'television...

This year's movers and shakers in television included the brains behind 'Lost,' a 'Mad Men' star, and two talk-show hosts. By Stuart Levine