The U.S. nighttime soap opera "Desperate Housewives" ended its eight-season run with a 2-hour season finale. A scene from the soap opera "Desperate Housewives" The Emmy Award-winning show, which ended Sunday night, was created by writer-producer Marc Cherry and boasted an ensemble cast led by Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria. Other stars who appeared on the series ...

Yang Hyun-suk (SBS) YG Entertainment CEO and former member of Korean group Seo Taiji and Boys Yang Hyun-suk has revealed the story behind the formation of the group for the first time on a TV talk show. The dance guru said on SBS’ “Healing Camp” that he met the leader of the band, Seo Taiji, in a club and Seo paid him a large amount of money to learn his dance moves. They started dance lessons...

Up-and-coming actor and singer Suzy singled out a kiss with actor Kim Soo-hyun as the one which made her heart throb the most. A scene from "Dream High" Suzy, a member of a popular K-pop girl group Miss A, talked about her experience doing romantic scenes with some of the hottest male celebrities in Korea during an interview with TV program “Entertainment Broadcast.” “I was not sure at first, ...

Son Seung-yeon Mnet’s “Voice Korea,” a popular singing contest show, crowned Son Seung-yeon its musical swan on Friday. Son dazzled the judges and the audience with a heartfelt performance of “Ugly Duckling” in the final round which took place Friday night at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. Son beat rivals Yoo Seung-eun, Woo Hye-mi and Ji Sae-hee to go home with 300 million won ($262,000) in ca...

NHK’s news broadcast viewer ratings have been hugely boosted since glamorous news anchor Yuki Sugiura took over the morning news program “Ohayo! Nippon” (Good Morning! Japan) on April 1, media reports said. The 28-year-old was once Sophia University’s beauty pageant winner, and has worked at NHK after graduating in 2006. G-컵 NHK 女아나운서 ‘시청률 제조기’ 일본 NHK의 유명 아나운서 스기우라 유키가 네티즌들 사이에서 화제를 모으고 있다. 보...

Ko Young-wook (헤럴드 생생뉴스) Ko Young-wook has denied allegations that he intentionally got an 18-year-old female entertainer-aspirant drunk to rape her at his home. The former member of K-pop group Roo’Ra was under police investigation on Wednesday morning, after the alleged victim sued Ko for rape. “I am wondering why the accuser sued me, even though she knows the entire truth,” Ko said in a sta...

NEW YORK (AP) ― After being fired as NBC entertainment president toward the end of the “must see TV’’ period in 1998, Warren Littlefield packed photos, papers, awards and other memorabilia into a self-storage unit and turned the key. For 10 years he paid the rent and never stopped by. Finally he unlocked the vault and began combing through the boxes ― a process of rediscovery that eventually led...

Hallyu star Ryu Si-won’s ambitious TV drama “Good-Bye My Wife” aired its first episode with dismal viewer ratings of less than 1 percent. According to ratings research firm AGB Nielsen Media Research, the drama’s first episode, aired on Monday evening, took 0.84 percent of the viewership nationwide. Ryu Si-won in the drama “Good-Bye My Wife” (Channel A) Considering the drama was the first TV p...

Kim Seong-ju Celebrity TV show host Kim Seong-ju confessed that he found it traumatic watching his wife give birth. During the filming of SBS TV program “Jagiya,” in which celebrity couples talk about their married lives, Kim said he had expected the birth to be touching as depicted in movies and dramas, the broadcaster said. However, Kim was shocked by the sight of his wife giving birth and c...

Lee Eun-mi, singer and emcee of “I Am a Singer” (season 2 MBC) New format may fail to attract viewers; hard to beat other TV auditions for amateur singers MBC’s “I Am a Singer,” last year’s hit singing competition that pitted top performers against one another, kicked off its second season on Sunday amid high expectations from viewers. The show has a new format -- new competition rules, contes...

Second season putting the spotlight on competitive dancing The first season of MBC’s “Dancing with the Stars” put in a relatively strong showing when it aired last summer, nabbing viewer ratings that kept it at the top of its timeslot. Now into its second season, all eyes are trained on whether or not this ballroom dance reality program is a one-trick pony or here to stay. Viewer ratings for t...

"Grey's Anatomy" star Patrick Dempsey came to the aid of a teenager who flipped his car into the actor's Malibu yard, TMZ reported. Patrick Dempsey (Bloomberg) The teen lost control of his Mustang Tuesday evening and the vehicle overturned multiple times before coming to rest in Dempsey's front yard, TMZ reported. The car was totaled. Dempsey rushed from his home, crowbar in hand, to pry the t...

Youngest winner at 15 to choose agency among top three K-pop companies Fifteen-year-old Park Ji-min became the winner of SBS’ “K-pop Star,” beating out her rival Lee Ha-yi by one point in the neck-and-neck competition on Sunday evening. With Sunday’s win, Park also became the youngest and first female winner of a local TV singing audition program. “I’m happy because I feel like I’m being rewar...