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James Fallows is no doctor, but his prognosis on America is rosy.

The pop star chats with CNN about her voice work in the new animated film "Leap!," and reveals how her upcoming fourth studio album is shaping up.

Jay Thomas, a comic and character actor whose credits include roles on "Cheers" and "Murphy Brown," has died after a battle with cancer, according to his publicist Tom Estey. Thomas was 69.

While "The Big Bang Theory" producer Chuck Lorre clearly felt liberated plying his trade for Netflix, the resulting stoner comedy, "Disjointed," runs on fumes. Kathy Bates stars as the proprietor of "Southern California's finest and friendliest marijuana dispensary," but there's not enough weed in the Golden State to wring consistent laughs from a show that's mostly as stale as an unwashed bong.

Shania Twain namechecked Brad Pitt in "That Don't Impress Me Much," and now she is telling the full story about the actor's connection to her hit 1997 song.

Taylor Swift has a message in her brand new single "Look What You Made Me Do," and she says it rather plainly.

Amy Schumer is clearing up some controversy about her salary.

Alec Baldwin returned to NBC's "Weekend Update" and impersonated President Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Arizona.

Before you scorch the earth with Wildfire, "Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin wants to reassure fans that he does in fact watch the HBO show that's based on his famous books.

"Death Note" has spawned a cottage industry in Japan, with the graphic novels (or manga) adapted into animation, movies and TV. Netflix's film based on the property, however, seriously loses something in translation, yielding a thriller that practically suffocates on its own convoluted plot.

MTV has reached out to the military in an effort to bring active duty transgender military service members to Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, a US defense official told CNN.

If you aren't a major Taylor Swift fan (a.k.a. a "Swiftie"), you are going to have to shake it off over the next few days.

A haunted house attraction has sprung up in Hollywood, taking visitors inside a recreation of scary world of Stephen King's "IT" - based on the new movie.

When it comes to being a comedian, Melanie "Mel B" Brown thinks Simon Cowell is all wet.

Big, colorful and goofy, "The Tick" returns at a more hospitable place and time -- on a streaming service (Amazon) that doesn't mention ratings, at a moment when pop culture is already crawling with superheroes. That could make the third time the charm for Ben Edlund's comic-book spoof, which is fun, even if it doesn't quite get under your skin.

Following a social media backlash over ESPN moving announcer Robert Lee off the University of Virginia's home opener football game due to "the coincidence of his name," the sports network's president explained the decision.

Late night comedians Trevor Noah and Conan O'Brien joked about President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Phoenix.