Now that one of Hollywood’s great studios, 20th Century Fox, has merged into another named Disney, let’s reflect, as a form of final tribute to a proud former stand-alone major, on one of Fox’s great legacies: its Oscars. Its track record with the Academy is far better than the studio that just swallowed it up. Since…

Fox on Sunday aired a full night of Miss Universe Pageant (1.1 rating in the 18-49 demo, 4.19 million viewers), which clung to last year’s demo rating but fumbled 27,000 viewers compared with last year’s November broadcast. Meanwhile, ABC's annual The Sound of Music (0.7, 4.20M) broadcast ticked down in both metrics…

A week before Christmas Eve, it was a very busy Sunday — and we don't mean just with the shopping and packing some of you are still working on. With a hard-fought and potential playoff preview New England Patriots-Pittsburgh Steelers game on CBS owning the earlier part of the evening, it was NFL football vs. the live…

UPDATE, 11:55 AM: The final score for last night’s Sunday Night Football is in — and we don’t mean the Dallas Cowboys’ 26-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A total of 24.2 million viewers watched last night’s primetime game out of Texas. Down 9% from last week’s season high, the Cowboys’ 10-7 loss to the New York…

Charmian Carr, familiar to generations of fans of 1965’s The Sound of Music as the lovely Von Trapp girl who sang “I Am Sixteen Going On Seventeen,” died in California Saturday at 73. Carr, who played the lovestruck Liesl in the Academy Award-winning Julie Andrews film musical, suffered from a rare form of dementia…

Although the loose theme of this year’s  TCM Classic Film Festival revolves around the word “History” in every possible meaning of the word, organizers could easily have wrapped it around the word “anniversary”  since so much of it seems to be tied to celebrating landmark years in the life of the movies, actors and…

UPDATE 2:25 PM: The total price including the buyer’s premium, was $43,750. EXCLUSIVE: Dough-Re-Mi: Mary Martin’s 1960 Tony Award for The Sound Of Music sold at auction today for $35,000. It was part of a trove of entertainment-related memorabilia sold by Boston, Massachusetts-based RR Auction. The medallion is…

UPDATE, 9:48AM: The final numbers are in and Empire gone up again. Nielsen numbers have the 8 – 10 PM finale of the Fox drama snagging a 6.5 rating among adults 18-49 and 16.7 million total viewers. First of all, that’s a record for the TV ratings rule breaking series and up 71% and 69% respectively from the results…

Here’s some early snippets from ABC’s 20/20 special tonight The Untold Story of The Sound of Music airing at 10 PM ET. ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer goes behind the scenes of the classic movie, exploring why it still resonates 50 years later. She even takes the film’s lead actress Julie Andrews with her throughout…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning his first Oscar three years ago at age 82 for Beginners, another major Hollywood honor is coming Christopher Plummer’s way when he gets a hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre on March 27th in an event sponsored as part of the TCM Classic Movie Festival. The network is…

UPDATE with Facebook numbers: Lady Gaga took to the Oscars stage to sing a four-song medley from The Sound Of Music as the Academy Awards celebrated the movie’s 50th anniversary on Sunday. Her performance garnered a standing ovation and according to Twitter generated the highest number of tweets per minute of any…

Songbird Laura Benanti, who just won raves for her portrayal of Rosabella in the Encores! revival of Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella, and as the fiancee foiled by a problem like Maria in NBC’s hit live telecast of The Sound Of Music, has signed with CAA. Previously she was Tony-nominated as Cinderella in Stephen…