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Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan.

PASADENA, Calif. -- TV's favorite serial killer is coming back sooner than expected. David Nevins, Showtime's president of entertainment, announced Saturday to reporters at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour that "Dexter" would be premiering its eighth season on June 30 instead of its usual fall start.

"For the first time ever, we will move ‘Dexter’ to a new premiere spot in June," Nevins said. " ‘Dexter’ has already proven its value as a launch pad for 'Homeland.' ... Our plan is to harness the strength of these two shows to launch the next generation of great dramas on Showtime."

"Dexter," which will air at 9 p.m., will be the lead in to new drama "Ray Donovan" starring Liev Schrieber.

Though "Dexter" will be premiering several months earlier than usual, Nevins said that the show is prepared for a summer return.

"Dexter is coming back early, but they had a lot of advance warning," he said. "They’ve known where they were going. No less production time, a little less vacation time between seasons." 

Though producers and writers may know where the story's headed, Nevins wouldn't say whether this eighth season would be the show's last. "There’s a clear endgame in place. I can’t talk about it just yet," he said. "The decision of when to end 'Dexter' is ultimately a creative decision." He added that an announcement about the show's fate would be made before it returns. 

But "Dexter" will have some tough competition in its new time slot. HBO's "True Blood" also airs at 9 p.m. Sundays during the summer. (The network hasn't announced a premiere date yet for the vampire saga, but it generally kicks off in June) Nevins isn't worried.

"Sixty-five percent of the people who watch ‘Dexter’ are watching after that Sunday 9 o’clock, even when it was on in the fall," he said, and also pointed out that airing opposite Sunday Night Football in the fall was even tougher. "I think ('Dexter' and 'True Blood') do probably have overlapping audiences, and people will find them both. We’ve been through that before, the same way that people watch 'Homeland' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' They figure out how to do it. It reruns, and there’s DVR,  there’s on demand .... people don’t have to watch it in its time period."

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CBS president Nina Tassler says the network would like to have Angus T. Jones continue on "Two and a Half Men."

PASADENA, Calif. -- "Two and a Half Men" star Angus T. Jones is no Charlie Sheen. After a video of the young actor blasting the comedy as "filth" and urging viewers to stop watching surfaced in November, the question arose as to whether CBS and Warner Bros. would want Jones back. The answer: Yes.

"We’d like him to be part of it next year. I think he would like to come back too," Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, told reporters at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour on Saturday. "He made his public apology and we’ve moved on."

Tassler called the situation "a little bit of a glitch," and blamed Jones' age.

"Kid's 19 years old," she said. "I’ve got a 24-year-old. Between the ages of 19 and 24, there have been plenty of things (my) kid has come out ... and said that I wish he hadn’t. I think the bottom line is cooler heads prevailed. (Jones has) been a beloved member of that cast for years and years and years! And he issued a public apology. ... And that’s it, we move on!"

She added that the actor would be at the show's table read next week.

Tassler also said that the network was interested in bringing "Two and a Half Men" back for an 11th season, and that Warner Bros. was "equally interested to do the same."

But stars Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher, who joined the show in season nine after Sheen left, have not signed on yet. In fact, according to Tassler, none of the cast have put their names on the dotted line as of Saturday. 

"We don’t have our cast deals. That’s the price of doing business every year," Tassler said.

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Are we looking at a presidential domination at this year's Golden Globes? Although the Globes never completely mirror the Academy Awards, they'll be compared anyway. Earlier in the year, "Zero Dark Thirty" was many critics' pick for a big winner this awards season. But after "Lincoln" dominated the Oscar nominations, with "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow and "Argo" director Ben Affleck missing out on director nods, the mood may be shifting towards a big night for the railsplitter from Illinois.

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Movie themes are serious this year. "Zero Dark Thirty" has made headlines for its infamous torture scenes. "Les Miserables" is nominated in the supposedly lighter comedy/musical category, but it's still a grim slog through prison, abuse, revolution, and Anne Hathaway selling her teeth and hair to feed Amanda Seyfried. In "Lincoln," our beloved sixteenth president manages to free the slaves, but that dark night at Ford's Theatre still awaits him. "Argo" brings back the grim worry of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. And "Django Unchained" features whippings, brandings and other tortures of the slavery era, as well as the standard Quentin Tarantino buckets of blood.

"Homeland" should do well on the TV side of things, with stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis both contenders. Danes is always a fan favorite -- when she won last year, she made sure to thank her mother since she forgot to do so when she won back in 1994 for "My So-Called Life." "Girls," "Breaking Bad," "Veep" and "Mad Men" also have a shot. And who doesn't love nerdy Jim Parsons in "The Big Bang Theory"?

There's always a slightly quirky bent to the Golden Globes, and not just because the attendees can drink during the ceremony. The awards are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and films and shows with a more international appeal are recognized more here than at other awards ceremonies.  There's other weirdness, too. A star's child is dubbed Miss Golden Globe (sometimes Mr.) and "assists" in the awards. (This year, it's Francesca Eastwood.) At one past ceremony, Angelina Jolie jumped into the Beverly Hilton pool in her formal gown. And odd results in more than one year have led to suggestions that the judges are a bit, shall we say, easy to persuade.

For the past three years, Ricky Gervais made headlines for his no-holds-barred approach to hosting -- which in Hollywood terms meant he occasionally jabbed the rich and comfortable, to the delight of the audience. But this year, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have taken over the hosting duties. Poehler told The Hollywood Reporter that "the Golden Globes is just quirky and weird enough, I think, that it's up our alley." And Fey pointed out the alcohol issue, saying "when you get a bunch of people in a room who don't eat much, and you give them one drink, it gets good fast."

On the red carpet, all eyes will be on singer Adele, making her first post-baby appearance (she's nominated for the theme from "Skyfall," a classy old-school number that does Bond proud).

And we'll also be checking out Jennifer Lawrence, who's up for best actress for "Silver Linings Playbook" and has rocked the red carpet before. Curvy Sofia Vergara will set the cameras clicking, and we're betting Anne Hathaway will remember to wear underwear this time.

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Jodie Foster just turned 50, but she’s already getting a lifetime achievement award. At Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony (NBC, 8 p.m. ET), the former child actor, two-time Oscar winner, director and producer will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Foster spoke with film critic Rick Warner about her eclectic career, motherhood, Mel Gibson, Justin Bieber and asteroids.

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Q: You’re awfully young to get a lifetime achievement award. Aren’t they usually given to doddering old men?
A: It definitely makes me want to go buy a walker. In some ways, it’s just about sheer endurance. I’ve been working steadily since the 1960s. I’m an oddity.

Q: Most child actors burn out early. How have you kept going?
A: I burn out periodically. Maybe I’ve lasted because I’ve had a weird career, doing so many different things. Directing allowed me to look at film in a different way, but I can’t imagine giving up acting because it’s a side of me that doesn’t get articulated in any other way. It’s all about self-discovery and trying things you’re scared of.

Q: You’ve always been a very private person. Is that getting harder in the Twitter age?
A: Not really because I’m pretty boring. That seems to work for me. I know this may surprise you, but I’m not as sought-after as Justin Bieber.

Q: You recently finished shooting "Elysium," a sci-fi thriller co-starring Matt Damon that’s set in the year 2159. So what’s the future like?
A: It’s a film about class and the growing inequities on our planet between rich and poor, the healthy and the unhealthy, those with opportunities and those without them.  As time goes on, things become more polarized. A luxurious space station is constructed for those who have means and can afford to leave the rotting Earth. I play a political leader who tries to keep immigrants away from the new habitat.

Q: You defended Mel Gibson when he was accused of some outrageous behavior. Any regrets?
A: I don’t know if defend is the right word. I just said he’s an amazing actor and an incredibly loyal, kind and generous friend.

Q: You appeared in your first TV commercial, for Coppertone, when you were 3, and acted throughout your childhood. Do you have many memories of those times?
A: Tons. I have memories of growing up on sets and going to all these amazing places. Like going to national parks in Utah and riding on a horse in a petticoat. Or going spelunking at Meramec Caverns in Missouri. I can’t imagine a kid from California having those adventures any other way.

Q: You went topless in that Coppertone commercial, didn’t you?
A: I didn’t want to wear a top because when I went to the beach, I never wore a top. Just bottoms. I remember my mom tried to talk to me about it, but she finally said, "Fine, don’t wear a top."

Q: Not many actors have an asteroid named after them. How did that happen?
A: I’m not sure, but I guess it had something to do with this (outer space) movie I did called "Contact." There are a lot of crazy astronomers out there and they loved that movie.

Q: You’re raising two boys as a single mom. Is that harder than acting and directing?
A: The biggest challenge of raising kids is your anxiety: Will they go to college, what will they do, will they be loved? But really, it’s a lot of fun. When I was younger, I didn’t realize what a creative experience being a parent is. It makes you look at the world differently.

Q: The Golden Globes dinner is infamous for being a rowdy affair. Will you remain dignified?
A: Well, my kids are coming with me, so we’ll see.  They went last year and there was some kind of chocolate party that Godiva threw, so they were all over that.

Q: When you’re not making movies, what’s your favorite activity?
A: My two passions in life are movies and skiing.  I’m a real diehard skier. I’m there first thing in the morning when the lifts open and I’ll ski until I have to go to the airport. I’ll even change in the car.

"Elysium" is scheduled to be released in August.

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Few actors can claim to have the breadth and depth of the career Jodie Foster has, despite her still youthful years. She's been with audiences for generations, starting out as a child actress who made the rare successful transition into a major A-list acting career in her later years, and has never stinted at taking challenging, sometimes controversial roles.

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The actress, who receives the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime acheivement award at Sunday night's Golden Globes, was already a seasoned TV actress with credits on "Gunsmoke" and the TV adaptation of the 1973 film hit "Paper Moon" when she began accepting roles in much more adult-themed films, including "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and "Taxi Driver," in which she played a 12-year-old prostitute. The role has been freighted with controversy for her entire career, and so obsessed John Hinckley Jr. that he shot President Ronald Reagan in 1980 to get Foster's attention.

As she's grown up, Foster has released at least one film every year of her life, never taking an extended break. She segued into the occasional directing job with 1991's "Little Man Tate," and got behind the camera (and in front of it) for 2011's "The Beaver." Over the years, she showed a fearlessness with her no-genre-barred script choices, including the eerie "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976), comedic western "Maverick" (1994), sci-fi "Contact" (1997) and suspense thriller "Panic Room" (where she played opposite a young Kristen Stewart).

But it was her vulnerable-yet-strong roles in films like "Silence of the Lambs" (1989) and "The Accused" (1992) -- both of which earned her best actress Oscars -- that ushered her in as a formidable, talented adult actress who remains today one of Hollywood's least-known (she keeps her private life very secure; the names of the father(s) of her two children go unnamed), yet enduring performers.

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Britney Spears and her fiance Jason Trawick have announced they're splitting after a one-year engagement. Their rep Jeff Raymond confirms to TODAY.com that the split was "mutual," and the two will remain friends.

In a statement to TODAY.com, Spears said, "Jason and I have decided to call off our engagement. I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends." 

Trawick added: "As this chapter ends for us a new one begins. I love and cherish her and her boys and we will be close forever."  Spears and Trawick became engaged on Trawick's 40th birthday in December 2011; they began dating in 2009.

Earlier Friday, Spears confirmed that she would be leaving her post as judge on "The X-Factor."

In a statement to The Clicker, she said, “I’ve made the very difficult decision not to return for another season. I had an incredible time doing the show and I love the other judges and I am so proud of my teens but it’s time for me to get back in the studio. Watching them all do their thing up on that stage every week made me miss performing so much! I can’t wait to get back out there and do what I love most.”

Spears has two sons, Preston, 7, and Jayden, 6, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. The couple divorced in 2006.

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Back in the day ... Destiny's Child, from left, Kelly Rowland, Beyonce and Michelle Williams, at the 28th Annual American Music Awards on Jan. 8, 2001.

Destiny's Child fans have a new reason to say their name: the group, comprised of Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, is reuniting for the first time since splitting up in 2005. "We are so proud to announce the first original Destiny's Child music in eight years!" the group announced on their Facebook page Thursday.

On Jan. 29, they'll release "Love Songs," a collection comprised "mainly of romantic gems recorded between 1997 and 2004," according to their website. On the album will also be a brand new track, "Nuclear," the first new recording since 2004. Give it a listen below.

Now that there's music on the horizon, the next logical question is WHEN WILL THEY PERFORM. There's no official word yet, but the rumor du jour is that Beyonce's Super Bowl performance might be a great opportunity. According to Rolling Stone, Beyonce will open the show, then she'll be joined by Williams and Rowland to singe a Destiny's Child medley and their new song, then Beyonce would close the show. Naturally, no one within the Destiny's Child camp has any comment on this. Stay tuned.

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Britney Spears made official what scores of outlets were speculating over recent days: that she'll be leaving "The X-Factor" after just one season on the show.

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Britney Spears.

The singer released a statement to The Clicker, saying, “I’ve made the very difficult decision not to return for another season. I had an incredible time doing the show and I love the other judges and I am so proud of my teens but it’s time for me to get back in the studio. Watching them all do their thing up on that stage every week made me miss performing so much! I can’t wait to get back out there and do what I love most.”

Spears informed Fox as well; they've yet to make an official comment on the departure of their judge.

During a Television Critics Association panel on Tuesday, Kevin Reilly, chairman of entertainment for Fox, told reporters, "I think Britney did a really good job. She came on, people remain fascinated with her and always will be."

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Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell in Los Angeles in October.

After secretly tying the knot late last year, Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell have an even bigger surprise for 2013: There's a baby on the way! "Evan Rachel Wood and husband Jamie Bell confirmed that they are expecting their first child later this year," a rep for the pregnant actress, 25, and actor, 26, tells Us Weekly exclusively. "The couple is thrilled."

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It's just the latest unexpected news for the Hollywood twosome, who got married in California on Oct. 30 in a top-secret bash, where the "Mildred Pierce" actress wore a custom Chantilly lace mermaid gown by Carolina Herrera. The British-born "Man on a Ledge" actor first met Wood in 2005, when they costarred together in Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" video. After splitting in 2006, they reunited in summer 2011 -- with Bell proposing in early 2012.

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Back in November, Wood shot down false speculation that she was expecting. "Sorry to disappoint. But no baby on the way here," the "True Blood" star (once engaged to Marilyn Manson) tweeted after she was photographed touching her stomach and wearing a baggy poncho at an L.A. grocery store.

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It will be the first child for both.

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Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Django Unchained," nominated Thursday for three Oscars, bears the director's trademark: it is rife with violence. In an interview to promote the film, Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Britain's Channel 4 News attempts to ask Tarantino about what link there might be between violence in films and the proliferation of real-life violence -- and Tarantino wasn't having it.

"Why are you so sure that there's no link between enjoying movie violence and enjoying real violence?" Guru-Murthy asked Tarantino.

"Don't ask me a question like that -- I'm not biting," Tarantino responded. "I refuse your question."

"Why?"

"Because I refuse your question," Tarantino repeated. "I'm not your slave and you're not my master. You can't make me dance to your tune. I'm not a monkey."

Ever persistent, Guru-Murthy pressed the issue, until Tarantino decided it was time to put an end to the line of questioning. "I'm here to sell my movie. This is a commercial for my movie, make no mistake. I don't want to talk about the implications of violence ... I've said everything I have to say about it. If anyone cares what I have to say they can Google me ... I haven't changed my opinion one iota ... and I am shutting your butt down!"

And yet Guru-Murthy still pressed on about the relationship between violence in films and in society. And again, Tarantino fought back.

"It's none of your damn business what I think about that!" he exclaimed. Guru-Murthy, again: "Well, it's my job to ask you why you think that because ..." And for the final time, Tarantino said, "And I'm saying no! And I'm shutting you down."

Before things got heated, however, Tarantino was very comfortable parsing out the types of violence he chose to portray in "Django Unchained." 

"Why do you like making violent movies?" Guru-Murthy asked.

"It's like asking Judd Apatow 'Why do you like making comedies?' ... I think it's good cinema. I consider it good cinema," Tarantino said. "There's two types of violence (in 'Django'). There's the brutality of the violence in the day, put upon the slaves during the time, that hasn't been dealt with in America to the extent I deal with it. There was two holocausts in America, this is one of them. Then there's a cathartic violence of 'Django' paying back blood for blood."

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REVIEW: "Gangster Squad" made the news last summer before most moviegoers had even heard of it. A scene in the film's trailer shows four men with automatic weapons who stand behind a movie screen and fire through it at the seated audience while a movie airs, then walk through the holes their bullets made in the screen and continue firing.

The scene would've been brutally violent in any context, but after the horrific shootings at a Colorado theater showing "The Dark Knight Rises," the trailer was pulled and the film altered. That scene's now gone from the film, and those who haven't heard of the controversy wouldn't ever notice its omission. (The released film contains a scene with a shooting in Chinatown, which reportedly was added in as a replacement for the theater scene.)

But as with "Jack Reacher," which came out just a week after the Connecticut school shootings and opens with a sniper who takes aim on innocents, including a young girl, it's going to be tough for many -- perhaps all -- to see the sheer amount of violence in "Gangster Squad" and not wonder about it.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's acted in his share of violent films, has come out and said that Hollywood can't be blamed for real-life shootings like those in Colorado and Connecticut. And in a lively discussion on the TODAY Facebook page, many readers agreed with the former California governor.

"Watching Roadrunner-(Wile E.) Coyote cartoons did not make me hit people on the head with an anvil," wrote reader Abel Garcia.

And indeed that's true. Few Acme anvil murders have been reported even when Looney Tunes was at the height of its popularity. But that doesn't mean it's easy to sit and watch the sheer unrelenting violence that flows across the screen in "Gangster Squad," to see a pregnant woman shot at over and over again, to watch a man murdered with a giant drill and then see the camera quickly switch -- in a supposedly witty segue -- to a raw hamburger patty sizzling on a grill.

But suppose you can take as much violence as Hollywood cares to dish out here, from the guy ripped in half by a car and quickly devoured  by coyotes to the henchmen burned up in an elevator. Even then, "Gangster Squad" is no "Godfather," no "L.A. Confidential." It doesn't delve into the minds of its characters like those films, doesn't use its richly painted retro setting for anything meaningful.

Josh Brolin stars as Sgt. John O'Mara, an Irish cop who sets out to stop New York mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) from taking over Los Angeles. It's 1949, and Brolin and his pals repeatedly remind us that they're World War II vets, who fought for freedom overseas and aren't about to give up fighting back at home. But there's no real indication of how the war hardened or changed them, only the constant repetition that they are veterans. Which every man was back then, and few needed to trumpet.

Penn, so good in so many films, has just two emotions here: "I'm About To Go Full-Blown Completely Freakout Psycho," and "Here I Am, In Full-Blown Completely Freakout Psycho Mode." There's never a sense, as we got from the Corleones in "The Godfather" or even Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos," that Cohen has anything in his personality that would make him a leader. He's just a sadistic crazy who's bound to turn on anyone he's ever met, including lovely girlfriend Emma Stone.

Ryan Gosling utilizes his Hey-Girl charm as the womanizing member of the squad, with Robert Patrick as the sharpshooting cowboy, Giovanni Ribisi as the brainiac, and Anthony Mackie as the black guy who hates Burbank. Seriously, he's given no other distinguishing characteristics, but at least he's slightly more of a full squad member than Michael Pena, who plays the group's lone Mexican member.

The screenplay never avoids a chance to remind us that Cohen is Bad with a capital B. After he has the man torn apart and fed to coyotes, his henchmen sweet-talk a midwestern innocent fresh off the bus into a hotel room where they plan to gang-rape her. O'Mara's able to smash his way in one-handed and stop it, of course, because that's the kind of movie this is. Uncomplicated evil meets uncomplicated good, and blood and brains grease the path. 

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Singer Katy Perry.

As we get closer to President Barack Obama's second inauguration, celebrity acts continue to sign on to take part in the festivities. The latest boldface names to officially join in the action are Katy Perry, Alicia Keys, Usher, Brad Paisley and the cast of "Glee."

That crop of singers, along with Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marc Anthony and John Legend, Nick Cannon, fun., and Mindless Behavior are expected to make appearances at various events, including the Kids' Inaugural on Saturday, Jan. 19, and the official inaugural balls that take place the evening of Jan. 21.

The Kids' Inaugural is hosted by first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden and is part of their commitment to military families; the concert honors and celebrates the service and sacrifice of the U.S. military and their families. Inaugural officials have not indicated which performers will be at the Kids' Inaugural, and which will perform at other balls.

For those seeking out public performances, the actual inauguration ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21 is the best bet. Beyonce will be there to perform the national anthem; James Taylor is scheduled to sing "Shower the People;" Kelly Clarkson will sing "America the Beautiful." 

Stay tuned for more as the Presidential Inaugural Committee promises more announcements in the coming days.

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