NEW YORK (AP) - Who needs Twitter's 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony,

It may seem like Demetri Martin is new to the comedy scene, but he has been involved in it for about eight years. After graduating from Yale University and dropping out of NYU's Law School,

NEW YORK (AP) - No one would dispute the importance of things like Power, Safety or Chairs. But to build a half-hour of comedy around any of them - that's a whole other thing. All the more reason for Demetri Martin to be doing it.

This afternoon, NBC announced a breakthrough plan for fall 2009 that is unlike any other line-up ever produced.

Comedian Jimmy Fallon will replace comedian Conan O'Brien as the new host of the TV talk show Late Night, network NBC confirmed on Monday.

As the backing band for Mike Patton's Peeping Tom, DP Holmes, Stu Brooks, and Joe Tomino have performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and in front of 10,000 fans at Madison Square Garden as openers for The Who; individually they've performed with 50 Cent, The Fugees, and Mos Def; and together, as Dub Trio

In what's sure to be the hottest concert ticket of the summer, multi-platinum rock acts Slipknot and Disturbed will lead the first-ever Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, a riotous road show packed with some of hard music's most influential artists and a plethora of the genre's most exciting young voices.

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) just announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, radio, news, and promotional writing during the 2007 season to be honored at the upcoming 2008 Writers Guild Awards - the WGA's 60th Anniversary award show - held on February 9, 2008, in Los Angeles and New York.

News from the virtual world: -NINTENDO THANKSGIVING: What's the hot toy this holiday season? TMX Elmo? Webkinz? Transformers? If Thanksgiving weekend sales are any indication, video-game systems could eclipse all of those once Santa has received everyone's wish list.

NBC.com today announced the launch of its new service, "NBC Direct," which will allow users to download and view NBC's popular primetime and late-night entertainment programming on their desktops for up to one week after broadcast.