Good if not great news for Jenna Elfman’s “Accidentally on Purpose.” After Monday night’s broadcast — of an episode I hear was especially crude; true? – CBS  ordered five more episodes, for a total of 18 for the season. That’s still…

Two more new shows have entered the safety zone — as in, it’s safe to get attached. “NCIS: Los Angeles” and “The Good Wife” both got full-season pickups from CBS on Wednesday. “NCIS: LA” is the top-rated new series of…

Because of “technical difficulties,” KMOV cut off the end of “CSI: Miami” Monday. The station says it’s working with CBS to retrieve the missing bit and air it Tuesday night; the exact time, when known, will be posted on the KMOV…

“NCIS: Los Angeles” is a hit, and next up for CBS is a spinoff of “Criminal Minds,” reportedly in the works for next season. With three editions of “CSI” and two of “NCIS” (which, you may remember, was a spinoff of “JAG”),…

It’s a wee Chenbot. A Chen-tot. A little Les.  Make your own plays on words, but the news is that Julie Chen of “The Early Show” and “Big Brother” and her husband, CBS boss Les Moonves, are the parents of a…

After an incredible 72 years, first on radio and since 1952 on television, “Guiding Light” airs its last episode Friday on CBS. I’d love to hear from people who’ve watched a long time and are sorry to see it go,…

Two Harlem Globetrotters, a former Miss America and a college student from Liberty, Mo., will compete on the 15th edition of “The Amazing Race,” CBS announced Wednesday. (Liberty is 86 miles northeast of Kansas City, Google Maps says.)

Contestants will run…

Samoa: Who needs it?

None of the 20 cast members announced Thursday for “Survivor: Samoa” is from St. Louis; in fact, the whole state of Missouri failed to place. So did Illinois, except for one representative from Chicago.

That’s OK; Midwesterners don’t…

Are you “TV’s No. 1 fan”? Prove it and you could win an all-expense-paid trip to the Emmy Awards, Sept. 20 in Hollywood, and be seated not in the bleachers outside but “next to TV’s biggest stars.”

CBS.com, TV.com and the…

Patricia Arquette and Glenn Gordon Caron talk "Medium."

When “Medium” executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron put Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette) into a coma, he knew there was a chance the cliffhanger would never be resolved.
“It was sort of me being a…