Actor Alexander Siddig played Doran Martell in season five but said the pay was terrible and he was glad his time on the world's most popular show ended.

Reports claim McDermott staged his own death and is living in Mexico 11 years after disappearing during a fishing trip in California.

The Big Bang Theory actor Jim Parsons has topped Forbes highest-paid TV actors for the second year in a row, taking home $US25.5 million ($33 million).

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If you thought the backstabbing, blindsiding and all round bitching was good so far, it just got better.

Sunday Night has revealed the reason Natascha Kampusch owns the house where she was kept prisoner for eight years.

An actor has been found murdered at the rented home of Canadian talk-show host George Stroumboulopoulos in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, police and the TV personality said on Friday.

Producer Ryan Murphy opens up on the in-fighting which plagued the hit series Glee.

The star of The Hobbit and TV series The Office and Fargo says he's no fan of zombie movies, though he loves the one he is making in Australia right now.

Award-winning actor Colin Friels doesn't watch his performances on screen, in case he likes what he sees.

You'd be forgiven for switching on The Bachelorette on Thursday night and mistaking it for a re-run of Ben Stiller's classic, Zoolander.

Stars such as Richard Schiff, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, and Mary McCormack will work for the White House once more.

The sequel to the eighties series will follow Thomas Magnum's daughter, Lily, as she returns to Hawaii to take up the mantle of her father's PI firm.

Fijians were warned to stay indoors while other residents headed for evacuation shelters. And what were Survivor contestants doing? Trying to make do with a tarp.

After 19 months of analysis, Netflix knows the moment when its millions of users got hooked on shows such as Stranger Things, Narcos and The Get Down.

The 'business mogul' gave Georgia Love a Tiffany bracelet. But she sent it back - with a note.

Black Sails star takes command of the Jupiter 2 in the Netflix reboot of Lost in Space.

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has accused commentator Waleed Aly of condoning terrorism in a live television interview on The Project that appeared to leave the show's hosts fuming.

​The lawyer for the family of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey denounced a CBS documentary theorizing she was killed by her brother, Burke, as a 'false and unprofessional television attack' and threatened to sue the network for libel.

The original outing for Bridget Jones, a comedy roast and an insight into new music across Africa.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg reteamed in Daddy's Home, the Mythbusters crash some cars and family drama The A word.

Mr Selfridge is still a man about town, cheap television on Discovery and a classic French movie.

Letter of the week

Is The Code broken? The second series of the ABC's contemporary thriller, which has moved to Thursday nights after a strongly received debut on Sunday evenings in 2014, has shed viewers over the first half of its current six episode run.

The best of what's on the small screen this week