COLUMBO: A TRACE OF MURDER Tonight, 9 o’clock, ABC. WHEN Peter Falk first played the character of Columbo on television, in the 1968 “Prescription: Murder” telemovie, his fellow TV detectives included ...

A jury decides that William Link and Richard Levinson didn't wait too long to bring suit and that Universal couldn't deduct distribution fees for the 1970s detective series. By Eriq Gardner Former ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with Falk in ...

A panel of accounting referees, tasked with figuring out what Universal City Studios owed to the creators of the 1970s detective series 'Columbo,' have concluded the right amount is $76.95 million. By ...

“USA Network’s Sunday Night Heat features some of television’s best looking crime fighters.” — Caption accompanying publicity photo of the comely young actors and actresses on USA’s weekend law ...

Emmy-nominated film and TV editor Richard Bracken has died. He was 90. Bracken died Thursday of kidney failure in Chatsworth, California, according to his daughter Kathleen Bracken. Over the course of ...