Technically, not a cartoon but a person in a dog suit. A big, furry, Brian the Dog suit. Please, let me explain.

Fox brought nine producers from its animated shows — Matt Groening and Al Jean from “The Simpsons,” Mike Judge…

TV critics didn’t get to see “Fringe” until Fox screened it in the hotel last night — but somebody leaked it online weeks ago. Viral marketing? “It’s hard to believe, but we didn’t put it out there,” says executive producer…

Asked whether he was happy with the content of “Moment of Truth,” that’s what Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly said: “Look, this is Fox. And what I love about Fox is that we never lose our DNA.” In other words…

The “So You Think You Can Dance” judges were here for Fox to break (so to speak) the news that Top  10  dancer Jessica King  has suffered an injury and been forced to drop out of the competition. She’ll be…

The turnout for Fox’s “Prison Break” breakfast disappointed– no Wentworth Miller; no Sarah Wayne Callies, though both were promised. (OK, I was wrong. They were there, as evidence at right proves.)

I did talk to Robert Knepper, who wouldn’t tell me…

Now, it gets good. Fox roared in last night, the first of the broadcast networks to present their fall schedule, with an early screening of J.J. Abrams’ “Fringe.” (Yeah, I know, it already leaked all over the Internet.) Today we’ll…

Dennis Hopper and Don Cheadle tuned out for Starz, which will launch a series adaptation of the Oscar-winning movie “Crash” in October.

Hopper, last seen on TV in “E-Ring,”  plays a maverick record producer and “crazy (bleep)” he compares to Phil…

Here are the most recent ratings, as always courtesy of ABC. Note that the No. 2-rated show of the week was “Wipeout”! Not my cup of torture, but I am enjoying “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” which has an…

Here’s a confession: I can’t watch every single thing on TV. I’d like to, of course, but there are only so many hours in the day, and some of them are taken up with writing stuff and, well, life. So…

The episode of “Kathy Griffin: My Life in the D-List” shot partly in St. Louis when she played the Fox in February is set for 9 p.m. Thursday on Bravo. It was nice of the network’s publicists to let us…