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Beyonce, Madonna Join Haiti Telethon Lineup; Leonardo DiCaprio Pledges $1 Million

Beyonce and Madonna joined the already star-studded list of performers for Friday’s "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, the Associated Press reports. Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and former President Bill Clinton are now expected to participate, as well. Even…

Scripps’ Food and HGTV Settle Retrans Feud with Cablevision

Scripps Networks Interactive’s Food Network and HGTV are back on Cablevision’s 3 million New York-area homes, ending a three-week blackout while the two sides battled over how much the channels were worth, The New York Times reports. No terms were…

Huge Viewership for Fox News on Election Night

Coverage of the Massachusetts election to fill the seat left vacant by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was a ratings winner for Fox News, according to Huffington Post. Fox News drew 6.161 million total viewers in prime time, trouncing…

More Food, HGTV on NYC’s WPIX

With no resolution of the standoff in the carriage battle between Cablevision Systems and Scripps Networks Interactive’s Food Network and HGTV, reruns of some shows from the networks will again air on the New York station WPIX on Sunday. Reruns…

Nervous Time for Oprah: Author Who Accused Bush of Using Cocaine, Reagan of Date Rape and Sinatra and Nancy Reagan of an Affair Has Unauthorized Bio of Oprah Coming Out in April

A tell-all biography of a TV uber-star will hit bookstalls in the spring, according to the Huffington Post. Crown Books has just announced April 13 as the release date for "Oprah: A Biography," an unauthorized tome about the life of…

Zombies and Crime Pilots for AMC

AMC ordered pilots for what would be its fourth and fifth original series — if they get that far — one about zombies and the other a crime show, reports Multichannel News. “The Walking Dead” is based on Robert Kirkman’s…

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Gets Her Own Show

Megyn Kelly, just back from maternity leave, is getting her own afternoon show on Fox News, the Huffington Post reports. She’ll leave the morning “America’s Newsroom" which she cohosts with Bill Hemmer, and take over the 1-3 p.m. slot now…

OMG & Wow: An Article Back in 2008 Quoted a Latenight Source as Saying the Plan is to Keep Leno at NBC ‘so if Conan fails on ‘The Tonight Show’ they will put Jay right back in there’

We’ve always known that James Hibberd, our former TVWeek colleague, is one of the best reporters around, but the following reportage astounds even us! Back in December, 2008, after Hibberd left us for The Hollywood Reporter, he wrote a piece quoting a "well placed…

How to Keep Having Fun Watching TV About Latenight Once Conan Leaves NBC and All the Jokes About the NBC Situation Stop Flying

With Conan O’Brien’s lkely departure from "The Tonight Show" tomorrow night (Friday, Jan. 22), all the jokes about NBC’s latenight fiasco will likely fade away. The problem with that is that for the last several weeks it’s the most fun…

The Recipe to Following Up ‘Jon & Kate’: A Baker, Some Police Women and a Few Little People, Of Course

Consider this dilemma. You take over a cable network whose ratings have plummeted 30%. Miraculously, you turn it around and ratings jump 43%. Then, your No.1 show self-destructs under the glare of the nation’s media. How do you rebuild from…