Fox has signed Kiefer Sutherland to three more seasons of 24 which will take him well into the ninth season of the hit action drama for the 2008-2009 TV season. In addition to staying on as CTU agent Jack Bauer, Sutherland will also serve as executive producer for the upcoming seasons.

Rob Zombie has tied his biggest chart success ever with Educated Horses. The disc debuts at number five on the Billboard album chart with 107,000 copies sold. Zombie's 1998 album Hellbilly Deluxe also opened at number five, but sold more than 120,000 copies.

VH1 announced that it will debut the VH1 Rock Honors next month to pay homage to the gods of hard rock. The inaugural honorees are KISS, Queen, Def Leppard and Judas Priest. The ceremony, to take place May 25 in Las Vegas, will pay tribute to hard rock legends much like the Rock Hall of Fame does. VH1 has aired the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies the past few years.

Rather than share the sponsor spotlight like it must on American Idol, Coca-Cola has opted to create its own music program. Taking the concept even further, the soft drink giant is bypassing traditional television to get Stageside out to its target audience. The program is being distributed from its own Web site and via peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent in formats optimized for viewing on computers and on such portable devices as iPods and PSPs.
 

ABC will offer four prime-time shows including Desperate Housewives and Lost on its Web site for free for two months beginning in May as it continues to expand the ways consumers can watch TV online. The shows will include advertising that cannot be skipped over during viewing.
 

Jessica Simpson may be appearing in the Baywatch movie. Simpson would be taking on Pamela Anderson's role of CJ Parker in Dreamworks big-screen revival of the hit show seen worldwide.

Bow Wow and Ciara have split after dating for a year. Ciara's rep confirmed that the couple had parted ways. Rumors were circulating that the couple were engaged after Ciara was spotted wearing a large diamond on her left hand. The twosome collaborated on the song Like You.

Chad Michael Murray is engaged to 18 year old One Tree Hill extra Kenzie Dalton. Murray was married to his co-star on the show, Sophia Bush for five months last year.

Velvet Revolver's Slash and Duff are rumoured to be returning to Guns N' Roses for a summer tour, but that's not stopping the band from working with an unlikely collaborator: Pharrell Williams. The Neptunes/N.E.R.D. superstar is also set to work on Scott Weiland's solo album, plus projects with Slim Thug, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z.

Jennifer Aniston kept silent on the Today show when entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport quizzed the actress about rumours Oprah Winfrey is planning an US$8 million wedding for Jen and her main squeeze, Vince Vaughn.

Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) is in talks to take over directorial duties for Dallas. Robert Luketic was prepping to direct the picture that had a Nov. 10 release date, but will now direct Columbia Pictures' 21, the adaptation of Ben Mezrich's best selling nonfiction book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

Phil Joanou will direct a remake of the 1981 film Sharky's Machine starring Burt Reynolds. Warner Bros. is distributing the project. Originally based on a novel by William Diehl, the movie had Reynolds playing Sgt. Tom Sharky, a vice cop who puts together a team to hunt down a group of brutal bad guys.

Drake Bell and Josh Peck, the stars of the hit Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh, will be teaming up for an untitled feature film. Nickelodeon Movies will be producing and financing the project.

DreamWorks Animation has acquired the rights to develop and produce the computer animated feature Punk Farm. Based on a children's book by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, the story revolves around a group of farm animals, a sheep, chicken, pig, goat and cow, who form an underground rock band.

Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick will star in All Lit Up. DeVito and Broderick will play neighbors in a small New England town who collide when one decides to decorate his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.

The late Tupac Shakur has been sculpted in wax for Madame Tussaud's in Las Vegas. The rapper is shown without a shirt and has tattoos over his body. The wax figure is part of an exhibition dedicated to the rapper called Tupac Eternal.

Kate Moss is continuing her comeback from last year's drug scandal by signing a reported $900,000 deal to star in an upcoming ad campaign for Calvin Klein.

Frankie Muniz is set to debut as a driver in the Formula BMW USA series just days after Fox airs the May 14 series finale of Malcolm in the Middle, his prime-time vehicle of the past six years.

Danny DeVito has partnered with ClickStar Inc., an entertainment company that plans to offer legal download of movies while still in theaters.

TV programming created especially for cell phones, handheld computers and the Internet has officially arrived as its own medium. Six broadband-specific shows have been nominated in a new category of the Emmy Awards to be given out later this month.

Comcast Corp. and Sony Pictures Entertainment will unveil a new horror and thriller network this Halloween through video on demand, the first collaboration between the two companies under a deal to create new cable channels.