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Country star DWIGHT YOAKAM will make his 24th appearance on American TV programme THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO on Thursday (15May08) - smashing the....

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Comedian JIMMY FALLON will replace comedian CONAN O BRIEN as the new host of U.S. TV talk show LATE NIGHT, network NBC confirmed on Monday....

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NBC plans to launch a 24-hour news channel in New York to compete with the existing local news channel, New York 1, operated by Time Warner Cable,....

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Hillary Clinton canceled media appearances and other engagements for the day in order to assess the results of Tuesday's primary results. With....

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It certainly didn't look like a sweeps week last week as many ordinarily top-rated television shows recorded some of their lowest ratings....

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DAVID HASSELHOFF insists he'll have nothing to do with a planned KNIGHT RIDER TV series because producers ignored his ideas for the project's hit....

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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, claiming that 50 percent of all pirated movies are sold in New York, has chastised judges for being....

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Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned....

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NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a....

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A 30-second spot on next year's Super Bowl game will cost advertisers $3 million, the Wall Street Journal said today (Tuesday). The newspaper....

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NBC's coverage of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday earned a 9.5 rating and a 21 share, down an insignificant 3 percent from last year when many....

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The former president of CBS News has expressed anger over recent revelations by the New York Times that military analysts hired by the networks to....

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Thus far during the May sweeps, network executives and ad buyers are undoubtedly asking, "Where has the audience gone and how are we going to get....

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As usual, Fox's American Idol dominated Tuesday's ratings as the performance edition posted a 14.7 rating and a 23 share during the 8:00 p.m.....

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Thanks in large measure to the success of new episodes of its Thursday-night lineup, CBS recaptured the weekly primetime ratings crown last week.....

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RADIOHEAD are using their latest music video to draw attention to the problem of human trafficking. The accompanying video for the single....

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LATEST: A retired U.S. newscaster is suing the makers of CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, after footage of his war reports appeared in the movie without his....

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Jimmy Fallon is to succeed Late Night host Conan O'Brien on NBC in 2009, the Hollywood Reporter has quoted sources as saying. O'Brien is....

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Comedian JIMMY FALLON has emerged as the hot favourite to replace CONAN O BRIEN as the host of U.S. T.V. talk show LATE NIGHT.
O'Brien will move....

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O.J. SIMPSON's plans to be a contestant on CELEBRITY APPRENTICE have been scuppered by DONALD TRUMP.
It was claimed this week that Simpson is....

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Jimmy Fallon has been tapped to replace Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night when O'Brien takes over hosting duties on the Tonight Show from Jay Leno....

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Both CNN and MSNBC attracted more viewers in the key 25-54-year-old demographic for their coverage of the Pennsylvania primary results Tuesday....

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The May ratings "sweeps" officially begin tonight (Thursday), with analysts anxiously waiting to see whether audiences will be returning to their....

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While CBS News executives continue to point out that it took Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings a long time to climb to the top of the ratings, the....

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Ratings for Fox's American Idol rose Tuesday night from last week, as the show posted a 14.5 rating and a 23 share in the 8:00 p.m. hour. Once....

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With ratings for last week's performance edition of American Idol falling to a five-year-low and its results edition to a four-year low, Fox....

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Former sportsman-turned-actor O.J. SIMPSON is desperate to take part in the next season of THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE - and has reportedly asked DONALD....

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British rockers RADIOHEAD are to play a "green" gig on a U.S. talkshow by performing via satellite link-up from the U.K. - saving them from flying....

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The major television networks have no plans to interrupt their regular programming to present reports about results in today's (Tuesday) crucial....

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Suggesting that bringing a new television series onto the air without making a pilot first might not be such a great money-saving idea after all,....

Read news story: WITHOUT A PILOT NEW SHOW CRASHES