‘The Simpsons’ heads to China

    For the first time in its 26-season history, “The Simpsons” will air on the Chinese mainland.

    The award-winning animated series will be carried by the Chinese online video giant Sohu, which finalized* a deal with 20th Century Fox to bring the Springfield gang to the Middle Kingdom.

    Freeman joins ‘Ted 2’

    Morgan Freeman is set to team up with Seth MacFarlane, the Boston-accented voice of vulgar comedy, in “Ted 2,” Variety reported.

    Freeman, 77, will star in the sequel to the 2012 comedy about a grown man (Mark Wahlberg) whose best friend is a hard-living teddy bear that was brought to life by a boyhood wish and simply stuck around.

    Freeman is to play an iconic civil-rights lawyer called upon to help Ted with his legal troubles.

    Haley Joel Osment plays a Nazi

    Haley Joel Osment is looking very different from the adorable kid he once played in 1999’s “The Sixth Sense.”

    Haley, now 26, was recently snapped in Los Angeles playing his latest role — a Nazi in Kevin Smith’s horror-comedy film “Yoga Hosers” — and judging from some snapshots*, he’s definitely gained a few pounds.

    Morton abused in childhood

    Oscar-nominated British actress Samantha Morton revealed on Saturday that she had been sexually abused as a child by staff at the care home where she lived as a young teenager. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, she said she decided to speak out following revelations of horrifying abuse against young people in the northern city of Rotherham.

    “I thought they were really nice people, so I was actually really shocked when it happened,” she said of her abusers. (SD-Agencies)