LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Even Comic Book Guy would have to be impressed with this show of support by two "Simpsons" fans: Jeremiah Franco and Carin Shreve have set a new Guinness World Record for longest continuous television viewing by watching 86 hours and 37 minutes of the Fox 'toon. The marathon viewing session was …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bumper 40 million U.S. viewers watched Sunday's Grammy Awards, drawn in by the death of Whitney Houston and the performance comeback of Adele, and kept watching by a controversial religious stage act by rapper Nicki Minaj. The telecast drew 39.9 million viewers -- the second-largest Grammy TV audience …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Fans of the "Walking Dead" comics have wondered throughout the series when their main villain, The Governor, might make an appearance on the show -- and be warned, spoilers on the latest episode lie ahead. It seemed like the moment may have come Sunday night, when Rick, Glenn and Hershel met …

(Reuters) - The biggest story in basketball is happening in New York City but about two million residents may be missing it due to a broadcast dispute, which could result in sports fans dumping Time Warner Cable Inc subscriptions. Jeremy Lin's winning streak on the New York Knicks has galvanized the struggling basketball …

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's media regulator has issued new rules banning foreign television shows from being shown at primetime as the country tries to encourage domestic programming, state media reported on Tuesday. Foreign television series must be capped at a total of 50 episodes and the running time for an imported …

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Nine months before he was sued by his former illustrator for payments over their "Walking Dead" comic book and the TV show it spawned, Robert Kirkman made a joke he probably regrets now. Asked during a podcast how a comic book writer should find an artist to draw his or her stories, Kirkman dryly …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 12 (TheWrap.com) - Lionsgate's most recent quarter was hardly cause for celebration -- revenue fell 23 percent at the company -- but its digital and video-on-demand revenue was certainly impressive. Digital and on demand revenue jumped 80 percent to $62.4 million during its third fiscal quarter. Theatrical …

NEW YORK, Feb 10 (TheWrap.com) - Roseanne Barr's TV husband, John Goodman, has signed on to co-star in her new NBC pilot about a trailer park operator who serves as a matriarch to the people who live there, the network said Friday. The project reunites Barr and Goodman, who played married couple Dan and Roseanne Connor …

NEW YORK, Feb 10 (TheWrap.com) - Grassroots activists are going to deliver a popular online petition asking Comcast Cable to carry Al-Jazeera English nationally to Comcast headquarters in Philadelphia on Monday. The petition, launched by Rethink Progress on change.org, has already attracted more than 23,000 signatures. …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - Oprah Winfrey is reviving her Oscar tradition on her network. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will air "Oprah's Oscar Special" on February 15 at 9 p.m. The two-hour special will see Winfrey interviewing "The Help" stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, as well as "Moneyball" star Jonah …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 12 (TheWrap.com) - "LUV," a coming-of-age story that premiered at Sundance, has been acquired by the Indomina Group and BET Networks, the companies said Saturday. Sheldon Candis directed the movie, which he wrote with Justin Wilson. Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "American Idol," which stabilized last week after a period of declining ratings, stayed on an even keel Wednesday night and pushed Fox to an overall win for the night, according to preliminary numbers. "American Idol," on Fox at 8 p.m., had a modest boost over last Wednesday, grabbing the top …

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - CNN commentator Roland Martin has agreed to meet with GLAAD following his suspension Wednesday for tweets during the Super Bowl that the group and others denounced as homophobic. Calling Martin's tweets "regrettable and offensive," CNN said Martin would "not be appearing on our air for the time …

By Brent Lang & Pamela Chelin LOS ANGELES, Feb 10 (TheWrap.com) - The warring sides in the Golden Globes TV rights case began closing arguments Friday in U.S. district court, with no settlement in sight. Judge A. Howard Matz told lawyers for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions on Tuesday that …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Muslim convert from New York pleaded guilty on Thursday for his role in threatening the writers of the satirical "South Park" television show for their depiction of the Prophet Mohammad and to other criminal charges, the U.S. Justice Department said. It said Jesse Curtis Morton, who is also known …

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - The landlord for the Oscars theater has struck back in court against Kodak's attempt to get its name off the theater weeks before the biggest event in film. In a filing Wednesday, CIM Group, which developed the Hollywood & Highland complex that houses the Kodak Theater, accusing the bankrupt …

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan has extended his contract with the studio that produces the show, Sony Pictures Television, in a deal that will take him through its fifth and final season. The 18-month deal will include any additional shows that Gilligan develops during that time, according …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - Jon Voight and Elliott Gould have joined the cast of the upcoming Showtime drama pilot "Ray Donovan," the network said Thursday. Voight will play Mickey Donovan, the father of the title character, a Los Angeles-based "troubleshooter." (Liev Schreiber signed on for the title role in December.) …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - "American Idol" contestant Symone Black might have fallen, but she got back up. The nation's heart skipped a beat toward the end of "Idol" on Wednesday night, as they watched 16-year-old "Idol" auditioner Black tumble from the stage after seeming to faint after her performance of the Otis …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - "Jersey Shore" star Snooki has finally found a place to hang her, um, poof when her spinoff series begins filming. Jersey City, N.J. has given the green light to Snooki (born Nicole Polizzi) and her co-star JWoww (nee Jenni Farley) to film their "Shore" offshoot there. MTV confirmed the …

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (TheWrap.com) - The next time Bart Simpson says "Eat my shorts," he'll be talking about a considerably fancier set of duds. The cartoon iconoclast will make his Fashion Week debut on Wednesday, as the yellow-hued muse of fashion designer Jeremy Scott's new line. That's right, Bart Simpson -- who's worn …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hospital drama "House" will end in April after eight seasons, producers said on Wednesday, bringing to a close one of the most popular shows on TV. "House", starring British actor Hugh Laurie as the cantankerous but brilliant doctor Gregory House, started in 2004 and will have been on air on Fox …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Move over, "Mad Men" and Kim Kardashian. There's a new darling in U.S. pop culture, with a much posher accent and even fancier clothes. British World War One-era drama "Downton Abbey" and its colorful cast of countesses, cooks and kitchen maids has taken America by storm, dominating modern social …