CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was charged on Tuesday in a six-count felony indictment accusing him of staging a phony hate crime in Chicago, nearly a year after similar charges were abruptly dismissed by local prosecutors.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Particularly when considering the series from which it was spun off, "Better Call Saul" seems like a drama unusually in love with deliberateness.

(Reuters) - Consumers love streamed TV and film and want content providers to keep it coming, a new survey from U.S. data and measurement firm Nielsen suggests.

(Reuters) - The U.S. television audience for the 2020 Oscars fell to an all- time low for a ceremony that brought big wins for South Korean satire "Parasite" but was criticized by reviewers as long and haphazard.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The 92nd annual Academy Awards quickly lost its own plot amid a million distractions courtesy of ABC's frenetic, often baffling production decisions. But then, through the sheer pleasure of the groundbreaking winners of "Parasite" breaking through the expected narrative to triumph, the show became something far more beautifully chaotic than the show's producers could have hoped for.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Factory," a Netflix film from Barack and Michelle Obama's nascent production house chronicling what happened to a group of Ohio autoworkers laid off during the 2008 recession, won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The 2020 Oscars ceremony took place on Sunday in Los Angeles, the climax of Hollywood's awards season.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 2020 Oscars ceremony takes place on Sunday in Los Angeles, the climax of Hollywood's awards season.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Actor Robert Conrad, the star of television series including "Hawaiian Eye," "The Wild Wild West" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" during an almost five-decade career that also included the occasional feature film, has died in Malibu, Calif. He was 84.