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Pitt 'Thrilled' With New Orleans Housing Project

28th August 2010

BRAD PITT has spoken of his delight at seeing families move into the homes he helped rebuild in New Orleans,...

Fallon Says Conan Gags Will Figure In Emmy Telecast

27th August 2010

Jimmy Fallon insists that neither NBC nor the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is restricting him in any way...

Apple To Lift Apple Tv From Its "Hobby" Stage

25th August 2010

Apple is close to signing a deal with Fox TV that would allow it to rent TV shows for 48...

Nbc Can't Win For Winning

25th August 2010

Preseason football and two episodes of America's Got Talent on NBC topped the Nielsen ratings list for last week, but...

Miss Universe Ratings Flat

24th August 2010

Ratings for the 2010 Miss Universe competition were virtually flat with last year's, averaging 6.0 million viewers. However, while the...

Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete Becomes Miss Universe 2010

24th August 2010

JIMENA NAVARRETE, previously referred to as MISS MEXICO, has been crowned MISS UNIVERSE 2010. In her acceptance speech at the...

Is Nbc Going To Buy Murdoch's Stake In Itv?

23rd August 2010

Shares in Britain's ITV went on a roller-coaster ride on Friday, soaring 10 percent as word spread that NBC was...

Betty White Wins Emmy For Snl Hosting

23rd August 2010

This continues to be quite a year in "life with Elizabeth," as one of Betty White's early TV series was...

Iraq Pull-out An Nbc Exclusive?

20th August 2010

Amid complaints that the Obama administration granted MSNBC exclusive privileges to cover the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman...

Jay Wins But Does Not Better Than Conan

20th August 2010

NBC on Thursday attempted to put a positive spin on the latest ratings for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...

Buy A Blu-ray Disc, Get Free Vod

20th August 2010

Borrowing a strategy from newspapers who allow paying subscribers free access to their websites that are otherwise blocked by a...

America's Got Talent Is No. 1 -- And No. 1

18th August 2010

It's a rare -- if not unprecedented -- occurrence when two television shows tie for first place in the Nielsen...

Cjr O'reilly's Clout Had Comcast Host Fired

17th August 2010

Implicitly raising questions about how Comcast might deal with its Fox News-bashing commentators on MSNBC if it takes over NBC...

Hulu Worth $2 Billion?

17th August 2010

A report in Monday's New York Times that the owners of Hulu are considering an IPO valuing the video website...

Abc's Bachelor Pad Loses Out To Rivals' Reruns

17th August 2010

A two-hour installment of ABC's Bachelor Pad Monday night failed to produce anything like the overwhelming ratings of its predecessor,...

David Hasselhoff Is The Target Of Comedy Central Roast

16th August 2010

DAVID HASSELHOFF was the victim of this year's Comedy Central roast that aired on Sunday night. The 58-year old Baywatch...

Reality-show Shootout On Thursday

13th August 2010

It was a battle of the reality shows on CBS and Fox Thursday night at 8 00, and it ended...

Nbc Promises Not To Move Super Bowl To Pay-tv

13th August 2010

As federal regulators consider the possible antitrust implications of the NBC Universal-Comcast merger, NBC is assuring them that it will...

Lohan To Flee Hollywood

13th August 2010

LINDSAY LOHAN will flee Hollywood and head home to the East coast of America after she is released from rehab,...

Network Audiences Growing Older, Says Study

11th August 2010

Although network executives continue to maintain that they're constructing their schedules to appeal primarily to younger viewers, a new study...

Bachelorette Comes Up Roses In Ratings

11th August 2010

ABC's The Bachelorette, which has always been a kind of bridesmaid and never the bride since its spinoff from The...

Brother Is Bigger

9th August 2010

Big Brother just keeps getting bigger. CBS said today (Monday) that the reality series posted its best ratings of the...

Abc To Launch Third Magazine Series

6th August 2010

Unlike NBC, which airs all of its primetime news magazines under the Dateline banner and CBS, which has two distinct...

Conan's Already A Hit With Ad Buyers, Says Tbs

5th August 2010

Although ratings for Conan O'Brien's new show on TBS have not yet been released -- a situation probably related to...

Bachelorette ; Congrats Are In Order

5th August 2010

ABC said Tuesday that Monday's season finale of The Bachelorette After the Final Rose brought it its largest Monday summer...

Murdoch Sees Ipad As A Media Game-changer

5th August 2010

Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp is reportedly considering rolling out a news product dedicated solely to tablet devices like the...

Heroes Creator 'Hopeful' For A Revival

5th August 2010

HEROES creator TIM KRING is "hopeful" the show will soon be back on the small screen - he's in ongoing...

Sing Along With Mitch Miller Dead At 99

4th August 2010

Mitch Miller, whose Sing-Along with Mitch television show on NBC in the early 1960s was the karaoke of its day,...

Report Cnn Had Hoped To Replace King With Couric

3rd August 2010

Unfavorable timing prevented CNN from naming Katie Couric to replace Larry King when he steps down in the fall, the...

Univision Has Its Best Quarter Ever

30th July 2010

Univision's coverage of the World Cup lifted its second-quarter profits to record heights, it said Tuesday. The Spanish-language broadcast network...