ABC’s “Good Morning America” continues to assert its newfound dominance over its NBC rival “Today,” B&C reports. Nielsen figures show that “GMA” beat “Today” by more than 520,000 total viewers for the week of Aug. 20, the story reports. It…
A hip-hop mogul who has been the longtime manager of 50 Cent, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey was found dead today in New York in an apparent suicide, TMZ.com reports. Chris Lighty died from what is being reported as…
For the two nights of coverage of the Republican National Convention so far, Fox News Channel has been burying the competition in the ratings, Deadline.com reports. The cable news channel averaged 7.70 million total viewers Wednesday night in the 10…
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin aired her complaints on Facebook after Fox News canceled her scheduled interviews, reports TVNewser.com. In a Facebook post, Palin wrote, "I’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to…
An 8-year-old schoolboy walking on a beach in the U.K. stumbled onto what could turn out to be a fortune in whale vomit, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports. The boy, Charlie Naysmith, found a 1.3-pound chunk of the stuff during…
A veteran TV actor who played an iconic character on the early 1960s comedy series “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” has died, TheWrap.com reports. Steve Franken, best known for playing the dilettante Chatsworth Osborne Jr., was 80. Franken died…
Nickelodeon, struggling to find its footing amid a persistent ratings slump, has shaken things up in the executive ranks, pushing out Brown Johnson, the network’s animation chief and the executive most responsible for the channel’s hit cartoon "Dora the Explorer,"…
Allegations of racism are flying in a politically charged war of words between two popular singers. "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken was called a racist by former "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant John Rich, after Aiken tweeted an apparent joke aimed at…
“Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts signed off from the ABC morning show today — one day ahead of schedule — to begin her medical leave for a bone marrow transplant procedure, TMZ.com reports. Roberts is battling leukemia, as previously…
MTV has announced that the upcoming sixth season of its reality staple “Jersey Shore” will be the show’s last, MTV.com reports. It was already known that this would be the final season with the original cast, as we reported back…