Harry Potter has made CNN’s list of the Top 25 Most Entertaining Moments of the Last 25 Years. The birth of reality teleivision and Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’ also made the list. This is the second of this type of list that Harry Potter has ranked on; we reported on Entertainment Weekly‘s a while back. …read more!

Our live PotterCast call-in show was a blast, thank you guys! You made more than 750 calls to us during our two-hour show – jeesh! We’ve had a ball, and if our technology doesn’t go bananas, it should be available early this week (edited down, of course). You’ve also left us close to 100 voicemails …read more!

The fourth “Get a Clue” drive is now open! Four years ago, almost to the date, we opened our first-ever “Get a Clue” drive for charity. At the time, the purpose was to collect enough money to bid on a 93-word card containing clues about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but it …read more!

JKR’s radio interview with Stephen Fry will air again here on Christmas Eve, but you can also download it in the meantime right here. Click below for bits that were transcribed as the interview went on: UPDATE: Thanks to our friends at MuggleNet and Micah and Jess, you can now read the entire transcript, here. …read more!

December 10 actor Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) celebrates his 45th birthday. Cheers Kenneth!

Bloomsbury announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released in paperback on Friday June 23rd, 2006! As noted on the Bloomsbury Harry Potter site, the book “will be published with two jackets, one for children and one for the adult market.” Thank you, Roonwit!

Emma Thomson and other entertainment, music and sports celebrities have decorated walking sticks for an online charity auction. The money raised will aid the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF), a British charity providing information on disability equipment. Commenting on her creation, Ms. Thompson said: “‘Doing the stick took me hours and I still have sticky hands.’ …read more!

The interviews from the Goblet of Fire red carpet in NYC we posted here and on MuggleNet have now been fused into one large file made available on our usual iTunes podcast feeds, so that those of you with a video iPod can simply play it there. This video features interviews with Dan Radcliffe, Katie …read more!

We announced on the last PotterCast that we would be doing a live call-in show: well, if you’re interested, we’ll be taking calls this Saturday, Dec. 10, 4pm to 6pm Eastern Time. That’s 9pm to 11pm in England, and 1pm to 3pm in California. At that time, John, Sue and I will be hanging out …read more!

Nominations for the 48th GRAMMY Awards were announced today, and we are pleased to report that Jim Dale has received his fourth nomination, for his recording of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The nomination is in Category 76, Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Dale’s fellow nominees in this category include Marlo Thomas and …read more!