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President Barack Obama gave an interview to Fox News Channel’s Major Garrett in Beijing, perhaps signaling an end to the hostilities between the network and the administration, the Associated Press reports. The interview was one of a number of interviews…
Exclusive U.S. TV rights to “This Is It,” the Sony film culled from rehearsal footage from Michael Jackson’s planned comeback concerts before his untimely death, have gone to MTV, reports The New York Times. The company has the rights for…
Balloon Boy parents Richard and Mayumi Heene and their family taped an interview in New York with ABC, in advance of sentencing for last month’s runaway balloon hoax, TV Newser reports. ABC producers took the family to dinner. It’s unclear…
Satellite carriers EchoStar and DirecTV would have to offer local TV station service to all 210 markets under legislation being prepared by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), B&C reports. The Senator is preparing to submit an amendment to the Senate Commerce…
One of the actresses from last season’s ABC show “Life on Mars” has been cast in HBO’s new drama series “Boardwalk Empire,” reports The Hollywood Reporter. Gretchen Mol will play a showgirl in the 1920s-era series, which is written by…
A former sitcom star and TV host is returning with a new A&E Network documentary series slated to air in 2010. "Full House" and "America’s Funniest Home Videos" star Bob Saget will star in the show, tentatively called “Bob Saget’s Strange Days.” The…
A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed a lawsuit that had accused “The View” panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck of plagiarism, the Associated Press reports. A self-published Cape Cod author, Susan Hassett, accused Hasselbeck of taking material from a book she wrote, to…
Time Warner and AOL will officially separate Dec. 10, when AOL will begin trading under its own stock symbol, according to Forbes.com. Forbes quotes All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka, who says that AOL’s once-lucrative subscription business is "’withering away," that its advertising revenue has been…