The ShowBuzz Weekly Forecast
This week is full of new stuff from some of entertainment's biggest names. From author Michael Chabon to Ms. Britney Spears herself, get your full of the best, or at least the most high-profile, of pop culture.
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team up for the new Ridley Scott film "American Gangster." Washington plays a former driver of a New York crime boss who grabs the reign's after his boss dies. Crowe plays the cop chasing him.
"Bee Movie" stars Jerry Seinfeld as a bee who wants to break the mold and go into something other than honey. He meets a florist played by Renée Zellweger and learns that humans have been stealing and eating bees' honey for years. So he decides to sue.Photos: Crowe On 'Gangster' Set
"Martian Child" stars John Cusack as a widowed science fiction writer who forms a new family with his friend, played by Amanda Peet, and a young boy who claims to be from Mars.
MUSIC
It's the album we all have been waiting for: "Blackout" by Britney Spears. What more is there to say?
"Vivere: The Best of Andrea Bocelli" features a DVD of the opera singer performing a never-before-released concert in New Jersey as well as a CD of his greatest hits, such as "Time To Say Goodbye" with Sarah Brightman and "The Prayer" with Celine Dion.
After a struggle with throat cancer, former drummer for The Band, Levon Helm, releases a solo project, "Dirt Farmer".
"Unbreakable" is the latest album from the Backstreet Boys. The first single is "Inconsolable."
TV
Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh star as Drs. Troy and McNamara in "Nip/Tuck." Lauren Hutton, Oliver Platt and Daphne Zuniga guest star. It's a whole new wrinkle when the show returns Tuesday at 10 p.m. EDT on FX.
"Silence of the Bees" follows scientists and bee experts as they try to interrupt a rapidly unfolding ecological crisis. This documentary, the 26th season premiere of PBS' "Nature," airs 8 p.m. Sunday (check local listings).
This week's "Frontline" focuses on Thomas Lynch's lone funeral home in Central Michigan. "A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be," Lynch says. Enriched by the Lynches as well as some of the mourners they serve, the film airs 9 p.m. Tuesday on PBS (check local listings).
The third season premiere of the Sundance Channel's "Iconoclasts" features actor-filmmaker Sean Penn and author-adventurer Jon Krakauer, whose book, "Into the Wild," was recently adapted for film by Penn. "Iconoclasts" airs 10 p.m. Thursday.
BOOKS
"You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Oprah's favorite doctors, Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz. With the help of Lisa Oz, Ted Spiker and Craig Wynett, the doctors tell you how to die young, no matter what age you leave this earth.
"Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure" by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon is about a band of warriors who are making their way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950.
"Ronnie: The Autobiography" by Ronnie Wood and Jeffrey Robinson tells the tale of Wood's wild ride through rock 'n' roll from his time with the Birds to his current gig with the Rolling Stones.
DVDs
"Spider-Man 3" starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco was a huge box office hit. Watch the latest edition of the Spidey franchise in your own home.
"Captivity" starring Elisha Cuthbert is a thriller about a model who is kidnapped and held against her will and struggles to break free.
Go back in time with "Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror -- Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965" to when the folk singer "went electric."
Remember the '80s? Well if you don't just check out "Magnum, P.I. -- Season 7."
THEATER
"The Receptionist" opens Oct. 30 at the Off Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center. Beverly is the perfect receptionist but is thrown for a loop with the arrival of dreamy Mr. Dart.