entertainment - "television"

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

The Zeffirelli production of Aida, which was recorded in front of a live audience at Milan's La Scala in High Definition television format with Dolby Digital sound, was the premier performance in the venerable opera house's 2006-2007 season. The production features the costumes of Maurizio Mellenotti and stars Roberto Alagna as Radames, Ildiko Komlosi as Amneris and Violeta Urmana in the title role. Riccardo Chailly conducts La Scala's orchestra, chorus and ballet company. This is the production in which Roberto Alagna angrily left the stage during the opera's second performance; the recording was made on opening night - the only one Alagna completed.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Gillian Anderson, best known for her nine-year stint playing FBI Agent Dana Scully on 'The X-Files,' will reprise her Emmy-winning role this summer in a movie sequel based on the wildly popular science fiction television series.

LARRY MENDTE usuallycleans up at the mid-Atlantic Emmys, raking in awards every year, but this year the local chapter of the National Academy of television Arts and Sciences is trying to figure out how to handle his entries.

TV News: Chef launches production venture -- Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is launching his own production shingle, under a pact with U.K. production partner Optomen television.

Veteran comic-book artist Ed Brubaker is spearheading an online live-action series. Brubaker, whose credits include 'The Death of Captain America' and 'Criminal,' has been enlisted by Sony Pictures television to produce 'Angel of Death.'

The film version of 'Brideshead Revisited' opens Friday, but for loyalists, the 1981 British television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel obviated any need for a revival.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - television star Kelsey Grammer, best known from 'Cheers' and his sitcom 'Frasier,' nearly died after suffering a heart attack last month, he told U.S. showbiz news program 'Entertainment Tonight.'

MTV is doing the time warp on a remake of 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Many feel that MTV is jacking with taboo — that the remake shouldn’t happen.Lou Adler, exec producer of the original film, is partnering with BermanBraun and Fox television Studios on the new rendition. The two-hour [...]

In 1981, American television had Dynasty. British television had Brideshead Revisited, an 11-part (660-minute!) mini-series boasting an even bigger ancestral home, even bitterer family rivalries and a religious undercurrent harsher than a riptide. (Harsher than Joan Collins, too.)