It's a little early for baseball season, but Ricky Gervais didn't care.

Throwing all caution to the wind, the cheeky Brit knocked it out of the park as host of Sunday's 68th Annual Golden Globes, aired on NBC.

Back for a second year — and thank goodness for it — Gervais came loaded for bear and wasted no time setting the tone for an awards show recognized as much for its revelry as its prizes.

"It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking," he began his…

A month after surgery in Detroit for an undisclosed ailment, Aretha Franklin says her health is "superb."

Franklin called in to Wednesday's installment of "The Wendy Williams Show," telling the host she was relaxing at a casino hotel in her hometown and hopes to begin traveling soon, saying she'll be "looking for a fabulous beach." She says she has two more weeks of down time as she continues her recovery.

The legendary singer also vowed to reschedule the concert dates she…

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing regulatory conditions to ensure that cable TV giant Comcast Corp. cannot stifle competition in the video market once it takes control of NBC Universal.

The conditions laid out Thursday by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are intended to guarantee that satellite providers and other rival television services can still carry marquee NBC programming and that new Internet video distributors can get the content they need to grow…

A tally of serious onstage accidents on Broadway and off:

• Nathan Lane fell through a trap door while starring in "The Frogs" at Lincoln Center in 2004 and missed a show with bruised and gashed legs.

• Idina Menzel fractured a rib falling through a trap door in a 2005 performance of "Wicked" on Broadway.

• Also in 2005, Christina Applegate broke her foot during out-of-town previews for "Sweet Charity."…