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- Road Rage Over a Parking Space Leads to Arrest of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Co-Star
- Awkward: A Rambling Princess Leia, Talking All About Drugs, Presents George Lucas With His First Emmy. It's the Wild and Crazy Daytime Emmy Awards. We Have a List of All the Winners
- Wanna Advertise in the Super Bowl Next Year? There's a Catch: You'll Also Be Asked to Buy Ad Time on a Brand-New Cable Network
- Fox News Lashes Out at HBO Series as 'Liberal Fantasy'
- Video: Miss Utah USA Flubs Q&A During Miss USA Pageant
- Star of CBS Sitcom Coming to Broadway to Play Transgender Rock Star
- Report: Charlie Sheen 'Fires' Selma Blair From 'Anger Management'
- Living Legend Bruce Rosenblum, Who Left Warner Bros. After Losing a Power Struggle There, Joins the Legendary Co-Producers of Many Blockbusters, Including '300,' 'Inception,' 'The Hangover' Trilogy and the Recent 'Superman' Reboot
- How 'Little House on the Prairie' Villainess Became a Gay Icon
- Netflix Signs Its Largest Deal Ever for First-Run Content
- Co-Founder of Second City Dies
- Millions of Us Were Influenced by 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Its Author, the Late J.D. Salinger, Never Allowed It to Be Filmed. Now, the First Trailer From the Upcoming Film That May Be Closest We Will Ever Get to a Movie Version of Salinger's Masterpiece
- CBS Moves Struggling Show to Saturdays for Final Burnoff
- Road Rage Over a Parking Space Leads to Arrest of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Co-Star
- USA Today Reports 'Rupert Murdoch-Wendi Deng Divorce Story Gets Juicier' with Oddly Worded Statement from Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Awkward: A Rambling Princess Leia, Talking All About Drugs, Presents George Lucas With His First Emmy. It's the Wild and Crazy Daytime Emmy Awards. We Have a List of All the Winners
- 'Smash' Co-Star Joins NBC's Sean Hayes Comedy
- Charlie Sheen Unleashes Venomous Attack on Reality Star -- With Plenty of Choice Sheen-isms
- Who Put Something in Their Coffee? Steven Spielberg and George Lucas Say the Movie Business Will Crash and Burn, and What Will Follow. Implications for TV. And Spielberg Reveals That 'Lincoln' Came 'this close' to Being an Original HBO TV Movie
- Emmy-Winning Actress Responds to Criticism of Her Weight
- Emmy-Nominated Actress Dead at 94 -- She Played the Woman Wrapped in Bandages in a Legendary Episode of 'Twilight Zone'
- Soledad O'Brien Lands at a New Network; We Would Have Never Guessed That This Is Where She'd Land
- Disney Channel Cancels Series
- If You're Attending this Week's NCTA Cable Show, It's a Good Time to Try and Spend Some Time with Cable's Most Charismatic Icon, a Genuinely Modest Person Who Is Retiring at the End of the Year. A Tribute
- What If ESPN Created a Channel and Nobody Watched? Now We Know
- Video: Check This Out -- New Direction for Apple Ads
- Legendary Actress to Play God on NBC's 'Save Me'
- Hit NBC Show Sinks to All-Time Low
- Ed Burns to Play Legendary Mobster in New Frank Darabont Series
- NSA Surveillance Scandal Fuels Sales of a Book Published 64 Years Ago
- Actress Who Has Reportedly Had Minor Parts in Some Popular Series ('The Walking Dead,' 'The Vampire Diaries') Arrested in Sending of Poison-Laced Letters to Obama and Mayor Bloomberg
- FX Cancels Show After Two Seasons
- Nickelodeon Star Arrested
- Must-See - Get Your Week Off To a Rousing Start. This May Be The Best Opening Number of a Tony's Broadcast Ever. Not Only Did Those in the Audience Give it a Standing Ovation, We Gave It One Watching It On TV at Home!
- Two TV Station Owners to Merge
- Report: Michael Jackson's Kids Are Almost Unsupervised
- Man Tries to Kill Himself Outside NBC's 'Today' Show
- USA Network's Revival of Canceled ABC Comedy Hits a Snag; Will the Show Wind Up Back on Broadcast?
- Prices to Visit Disneyland Increase Again. The Biggest Hit for Local Southern California Visitors to the Park, However, Quietly Happened 4 Months Ago
- Fox News Anchor Has Harsh Words for Her Colleagues
- Veteran NBC Newsman Dies
- What Are the Best-Written TV Series of All Time? And Which Shows Got Snubbed?
- Two Judges Confirm They Are Leaving 'American Idol'
- Has Oprah Winfrey Lost Her Mind? One Critic Apparently Thinks So
- NBC Series to Recast Two Roles
- 'Mad Men' Conspiracy Theory: Is Megan Draper an Iconic Real-Life 1960s Actress -- and Does This Mean the Character Is Doomed?
- Host Named for 2013 Emmy Awards -- Popular Actor Will Make Repeat Appearance
- 'Two and a Half Men' Adding a New Female
- JCPenney Under Fire for Advertising a Kettle That Looks Like Hitler -- See for Yourself
- This is a Surprise: CEO Says High-Profile Cable Network Will Finally Be Profitable This Year, Ahead of Schedule
- A Major Network Series Has Its Lowest-Rated Premiere Ever
- HBO Sets a Nine-Year Viewership Record
- Wow! Movie Box Office Totals Shatter Records Over Memorial Day Holiday Weekend
- Former 'Baywatch' Actress Hired to Host New GSN Show
- Ed Shaughnessy, Who Played the Drums on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson' for Almost 30 Years, Dead at 84. Wait'll You Watch This Awesome Must-See Video of Shaughnessy and Drummer Buddy Rich Playing a Duet From the 'Tonight Show' in 1978. Wow!
- Mike Darnell, Fox's President of Alternative Programming, Who Has Guided One of the Biggest Hits Ever on TV -- 'American Idol' -- for Its Entire Run, Is Leaving the Network
- Today's Must-Read: TVWeek's Media Buyer of the Year
- Did 'SNL' Cast Member Let the Cat Out of the Bag About Another Regular Leaving the Show?
- 'Today' Co-Host Says There Will Be a 'Revolt' if Matt Lauer Leaves
- Today Is the 15th Anniversary of the Death of the Most Famous Person in American Popular Culture. Here Is the Movie or Miniseries About Him Someone in Hollywood Should Have the Guts to Make
- Why the ACLU Is Trying to Influence the Storyline on a Major TV Sitcom
- Aereo Going for Knockout Punch in Legal Battle With Broadcasters
- A Spinoff of 'Vampire Diaries' and Two Other New Series, Plus 4 Returning Shows Will Be on New Nights: CW Unveils Fall Schedule
- Weird Non-TV Story of the Day: Wealthy Moms Hiring the Disabled to Help Their Kids Cut Into Line at Disney World
- ABC Orders 13 New Series for 2013-2014 Season, Eight of Which Will Debut This Fall. 'Dancing with the Stars' Cut to One Night a Week. Here's ABC's Fall Schedule
- NBC Announces Fall Schedule: Thursday, Once the Network's Most Powerful Night, Undergoes Major Changes
- Fox Reveals Fall Schedule; 'Bones' Moves to Fridays in Late Fall, New J.J. Abrams Series Set
- CBS Affiliates Board Backs Live Plus Same Day Ratings
- Calling the TV Business an 'Injustice Being Inflicted on the American People,' John McCain Unveils Legislation Challenging the Current TV Model
- Nielsen Changes Its Definition of the TV Universe -- and This Means the Universe Is About to Get Bigger
- Potential Game Changer: Time Warner Cable CEO Says If Aereo Ultimately Passes Legal Muster the MSO May Use 'Similar' Technology To Deliver Broadcast Signals to Its Cable Subs. Billions of Dollars in Retrans Fees Could be at Stake
- Aereo Says Networks Are Bluffing About Moving to Cable
- Video: Four TV Stars Reveal the 'Naked Truth' in Sizzling Nude Photo Shoot for Allure [Fixed so you can now link to the video itself]
- Reality Star in 'First Official Fake Sex Tape'
- Video Fun: Late-Night Wars Heat Up as Conan O'Brien and Chelsea Handler Have a Naked Shower Encounter (Warning -- This May Offend Some)
- Our Tribute to Roger Ebert
- 'It Will Revolutionize TV Forever' Says Analyst, Who Reveals Truly Eye-Popping Details of New Apple TV Set. He Insists It Will Be Out Later This Year
- Major Hollywood Studio Quietly Starts Its Own Streaming Service Featuring Old Movies and TV Shows
- Gay TV Actress Tops the List of Most Appealing Actors Among Faith-Based Audiences
- Astonishing: One Day, Jimmy Fallon May Become King of Late-Night Viewing, But Today, Actually, that Title Does Not Belong to Leno, Letterman, Kimmel, Conan, Stewart Nor 'Nightline.' It Belongs to a Thing.
- Report: Does Matt Lauer No Longer Add Up? In 2011, 'The Today Show' Brought in $500 Million in Ad Revenues. Last Year the Show Brought in $50 Million Less. Is Lauer, Who Makes $25 Million a Year, Now a Liability?
- Cronkite Award Winners for TV Political Journalism Announced for 2013
- CBS Rolls Out Summer Schedule, Including New Scripted Drama Series
- Why David Poltrack, TV's Top Researcher, Says Stop Worrying About the Decline in Viewers and Key Demos This TV Season. Actually, a New 'Golden Era' Is Here
- '60 Minutes'/Vanity Fair Poll Names Greatest Sitcom of All Time (Poll Also Reveals the Funniest Letter of the Alphabet, Among Other Things)
- Analyst: YouTube Video Has 'Profound Long-Term Implications for the Traditional Media Ecosystem'
- Nielsen Study Breaks Down Why People Who Don't Get TV Service Often Still Have TV Sets
- Report: Apple Talking With Cable Operators About Set-Top Box
- Report: 'Google is reinventing the business of pay TV and broadband. Cable operators everywhere should be very, very afraid.'
- We All Need a Little Inspiration to Start That Pet Project We’ve Been Meaning to Start, or Continue, or Finish. This Should Fit the Bill
