Laura Linney News

After four seasons, Laura Linney bids farewell to Cathy Jamison, her alter ego for 40 episodes on Showtime's The Big C , which over the course of its run put the spotlight on the courageous struggles of those who have faced cancer and the loved ones sharing in the journey.

An inaugural festival celebrating the life and work of short story writer Raymond Carver opens Thursday in Port Angeles, where he died in 1988.

'The Big C: Hereafter,' at 10 tonight on Showtime is its final stretch now. Cathy has ceased chemotherapy for her cancer, and the Sache Boutique, a new women's wear specialty shop at 91 Wilmington West Chester Pike in Chadds Ford, Pa., will hold a grand opening celebration The winner of the 2013 Small Business Exporter of the Year for Delaware is ... (more)

Laura Linney and Alan Alda star in The Big C , now in its fourth season on Showtime.

The cancer comedy "The Big C" wraps up its final season in four episodes. It's not hard to see where this is going.

WHEN "THE BIG C" premiered on Showtime in the summer of 2010, I wasn't exactly in the mood for a show about a woman with terminal melanoma.

Actress Laura Linney, the female cast members of TV drama "Mad Men" and directors Sofia Coppola and George Lucas were named on Monday as winners of Hollywood's annual Crystal and Lucy Awards, which honor women's achievement in film.

Creator Ryan Murphy announced the casting news on Twitter, tweeting , "Thrilled to announce Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is joining the cast of American Horror Story: Coven ." Sidibe, who currently stars alongside Laura Linney on The Big C , joins fellow AHS newcomer Kathy Bates for the highly anticipated new season, which will film on location in ... (more)

Gabriel Basso 's first credited role as a professional actor is "Kid with Cancer" in a film from half a decade ago, but he has matured as an actor playing a kid of cancer on Showtime's The Big C . As Adam Jamison, the sometimes petulant teenage son of Laura Linney 's Cathy, Basso rode the emotional roller coaster of typical angst straight off its ... (more)

When it comes to acting, Laura Linney knows no fear. She has embodied everyone from steely First Lady Abigail Adams in HBO's John Adams to FDR's mousy cousin/lover in the A recent biopic Hyde Park on Hudson .

Tonight On "How I Met Your Mother," it's time for Barney's bachelor party. Of course, it will be legendary as long as Mom and Ralph Macchio don't ruin his "bro mitzvah." 8 p.m., CBS.

The Big C 's creator and executive producer Darlene Hunt -- much like the series' heroine, Cathy Jamison -- isn't afraid to tell it like it is.

The title of Showtime's "The Big C" has been changed slightly for the four one-hour final episodes that begin at 10 p.m. today.

"The Big C" , TV's most underappreciated series, says goodbye with four one-hour episodes, starting with this one that marks the return of Alan Alda.

What's the best way to die? If you said cancer, you'd be right. Yes, it's slow, painful and mentally challenging, but it also allows you the time to put your affairs in order, make amends and, most importantly, lends you the opportunity to tell your friends and family one last time that you love and cherish them.

From the beginning, the alternately lighthearted and hard-hitting drama about a fit, active woman diagnosed with stage IV melanoma was emblematic of the new wave of TV dramas that strive to mirror life, good and bad, in sickness and in health.

One lesson learned on Tuesday night's episode of " Watch What Happens: Live " about Laura Linney ? If you challenge " The Big C " star to do something on live television, no matter how weird it is, she just might do it! The poll of the night asked if Linney should give her fellow guest, and "Big C" co-star, John Benjamin Hickey his namesake: a ... (more)