NEW YORK (AP) — Big Bird is leaving Sesame Street!

After a well-crafted and moving episode set against the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the best drama on television ends its third season on Sunday.

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Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year’s festival.

Michael Jackson’s death in June left promoter AEG holding the bag, with 50 sold-out shows at London’s O2 Arena canceled.

The legendary Hulk Hogan is coming out of retirement to join a new cable TV wrestling show.

DETROIT (AP) — Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Reality as a TV genre will never die, but some long-running favorites are showing their age this season.

Despite widespread speculation that Jay Leno is about to send NBC into oblivion, his 10 p.m. weeknight talk show is doing about what the network expected, as far as ratings are concerned.

You’ll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO’s “Entourage” and AMC’s “Mad Men” on your computer by the end of the year without paying extra - as long as you’re a Comcast Corp. subscriber watching at home.

Forget red. The arrivals-line carpet leading into Barker Hangar was yellow - appropriate, given the night’s honorees: Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson, all on hand to celebrate 20 years of “The Simpsons.“

The best thing about the release this week of the new/old Michael Jackson song “This Is It”? That Paul Anka might finally get some Grammy cred.

Movie titles and times for area theaters.

Paul Brown makes himself heard. And people keep listening when he does.

When it comes to recording television programs for later viewing, Democrats like “Saving Grace” while Republicans prefer “Deadliest Catch.“

Comedian Chris Rock is at again.

As a child growing up in High Point, Debra Terry knew she wanted to be a comedian.

It’s not easy for some people to shake, rattle and roll like a zombie.

A powerful and charming 62-year-old boss has sex with young women in his office. Sounds like one of the storylines from “Mad Men.“

Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening and Cherry Jones will be among the headliners at this year’s Virginia Film Festival.

CULPEPER, Va. - The world’s biggest rock star dropped by downtown Culpeper last Thursday for an impromptu late lunch overlooking East Street. The absolute lack of fanfare surrounding the incident was almost as incredible as his fleeting appearance.

A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.

Movies are a great source of style inspiration: they can capture the look of an era or create a style that just begs to be taken to the streets.

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the nation’s best idea, Ken Burns, says: the national parks system.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A year after its least-watched telecast ever, the Emmy Awards plaintively acknowledged TV’s changing role in the Internet age, bringing a collective sense of reckoning to the revamped show with everything from scripted jokes about the decline of networks to unemployed stars openly job-seeking.

NEW YORK (AP) — Friday marked the final flicker of CBS’ “Guiding Light,“ as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.

By spring, Harry Potter fans will be able to visit a replica of Hogwarts Castle, sip on pumpkin juice at the Hog’s Head Pub and munch on Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans at a candy shop – all within the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction in the Universal Orlando Resort.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,“ has died. He was 73.

Mary Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit “Puff (The Magic Dragon),“ died in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.

Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.