LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Australian actor Simon Baker was as surprised as anyone when he got his first Emmy nomination on Thursday -- although his "Mentalist" character would have seen it coming. Baker, 39, was among the new faces when the nominations for best actor in a drama were announced after just one season of his new crime series "The Mentalist." The ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television crime drama "The Mentalist" was not only the best new show of 2009, it also boasted the sexiest cast, according to a viewers poll released on Thursday at the close of the 2008-09 U.S. TV season. But teen drama "The Hills" is clearly over the hill. After five seasons on MTV and the departure of ...

CBS is giving a juicy post-championship game time slot to its new hit series, "The Mentalist." An episode about murder and the theft of a multimillion-dollar painting will air 10 p.m. EST Jan. 18, following the National Football League's American Football Conference championship game ...

Who says network television can't create new hits? CBS' "The Mentalist" topped the prime-time ratings last week for the first time. The series with Simon Baker solving crimes using astute powers of observation was seen by 18.74 million people last week, its ...