It's a little early for baseball season, but Ricky Gervais didn't care.

Throwing all caution to the wind, the cheeky Brit knocked it out of the park as host of Sunday's 68th Annual Golden Globes, aired on NBC.

Back for a second year — and thank goodness for it — Gervais came loaded for bear and wasted no time setting the tone for an awards show recognized as much for its revelry as its prizes.

"It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking," he began his…

David Nelson, who starred on his parents' popular television show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. He was 74.

Nelson died at his home in the Century City area of Los Angeles after battling complications of colon cancer, said family spokesman and longtime Hollywood publicist Dale Olson.

Nelson was the last remaining member of the Nelsons TV family, which included actor/bandleader Ozzie, his singer wife, Harriet Hilliard and his teen…

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing regulatory conditions to ensure that cable TV giant Comcast Corp. cannot stifle competition in the video market once it takes control of NBC Universal.

The conditions laid out Thursday by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are intended to guarantee that satellite providers and other rival television services can still carry marquee NBC programming and that new Internet video distributors can get the content they need to grow…

CBS will promote its new Tom Selleck drama "Blue Bloods" from its Friday dead zone to a Wednesday slot for four weeks in January.

The network will also give new romantic comedy "Mad Love" the plum post-"How I Met Your Mother" slot at 8:30 p.m. beginning February 21.

"Blue Bloods," which is averaging more than 12 million viewers on Fridays, will begin its Wednesday 10 p.m. tryout January 19. It will displace "The Defenders," which will move to Fridays at 8 p.m. effective…

Deep snow smothered the noise. Only fresh footprints leading to the tumbledown house in a suburb of the Belarussian capital Minsk betrayed life behind its boarded-up windows.

Inside, actors strutted and pounced barefoot on black floorboards while the tiny audience shared the makeshift stage for the Saturday night performance.

The converted house that is home to the Belarus Free Theater is a far cry from London's Soho, where its actors last performed.

With its…