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The stars of “Chrisley Knows Best” were convicted in June of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million and evading taxes for several years.

A stuntman who worked on the USA Network series “Shooter” sued series star Tom Sizemore and Paramount Pictures Corp. Friday, claiming he was struck and seriously injured by an SUV driven by the allegedly drunken actor last summer. Steve DeCastro and his wife, Carly DeCastro, are the plaintiffs in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit. They are seeking unspecified damages on allegations of negligence, unusual risk, battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of consortium.

There are few films that stir the heart and soul more than the 1962 classic To Kill A Mockingbird. To commemorate the Oscar-winning film’s 50th anniversary, President Barack Obama will introduce a special broadcast of a restored and digitally remastered print of the film on USA at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Saturday, April 7. Starring Gregory Peck as the heroically decent Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch, and based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, the film will air with limited commercial interruption. In a rare public statement, Lee said she was “deeply honored” that President Obama would be participating...

I never pictured Mark Harmon as Lucas Davenport but I guess I'm going to find out how it works out. Harmon stars as the antihero super-cop in John Sandford’s Certain Prey premiering tomorrow night, November 6, on the USA network You can read the review by Mike Hale of The New York Times here: Even With a Fancier Car, Mark Harmon Can Still Solve Crimes

Four and a half million Americans tuned in earlier this month to watch the second-season premiere of USA network's series, "White Collar"—a high number by any cable-channel's standards. The tale of an ex-con, forger and thief extraordinaire who partners with the FBI to solve white-collar crime, the series seems to have it all—big money, high society and dangerous villains. But the show is missing two ingredients seemingly inherent to modern television: sex and violence. You might also notice that absence in the rest of USA's summer lineup. From "Royal Pains," about a concierge doctor treating Hampton's aristocracy on the fly,...

Ever wonder how the people whose real-life tragedies end up as "Law & Order" plot points feel? Last month, Newsday reported that the relatives of a New York City councilman who was slain in City Hall last July had gathered outside NBC headquarters to protest the airing of an "L&O" episode in which a councilman was killed in a similar manner. NBC's reply, of course, was that the series - which has been happily ripping its stories from the headlines for years - is "fiction." Right. Unfortunately, it draws much of its juice from facts. And so I'm waiting to...

Sorenstam becomes the first woman in nearly 60 years to play a PGA Tour Event at the Bank of America Colonial.But then of course you knew that already, 'Annika has already won before she tees off,' says Patty Sheehan, the ex-LPGA star that cable channel USA Network will add as an analyist for its Colonial coverage Thursday and Friday.It's only begun, and Annika will definitely outshine at least two famous males Thursday-Nash Bridges and Walker Texas Ranger.They will be pre-empted as USA Networks, whose Colonial coverage will be CBS produced, shifts its Thursday coverage from starting at the scheduled 4PM...

BILL Clinton was booed Wednesday night when he took the stage at the Beacon Theater at the start of a Willie Nelson concert. "The place went wild when [Clinton] was announced," said our spy. "There was loud booing and yelling." Clinton "seemed angered" and made a comment about "angry Republicans," which stirred the crowd on more. "There was so much anti-Clinton booing and yelling that when Willie came back out, he asked if everyone was all right . . . the concert was taped for a Memorial Day showing on the USA network, but even with serious editing, it will...