AMERICAN IDOL - STRIPPER BOOSTS MAGAZINE STRIPS

The latest American Idol scandal -- this one involving top-12 finalist David Hernandez, who, it turned out, had once worked as a stripper at a gay nightclub in Phoenix -- has redounded to the benefit of the tabloid TV shows, according to Broadcast ing & Cable magazine. The trade publication noted that coverage of the Hernandez story helped boost the number of viewers of CBS's Entertainment Tonight 6 percent above what it was the previous week. NBC's Access Hollywood saw its n umbers grow 4 percent (6 percent among women 25-54). CBS's The Insider and Warner Bros.' TMZ were flat, while Inside Edition and Extra were down.

19/03/2008