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Fall’s New-Look Thursday Night: Plenty of New Shows and Plenty of Drama

The stakes are high for the broadcast networks tonight, when the opening salvos will be fired in the battle to be this season’s king of must-see TV. Thursday night won’t be the sitcom-dominated barrel of laughs it once was. New…

Video: Check Out This Fun Mock-Apology Film From Netflix That Conan Ran on His Show

‘How I Met Your Mother’ Reveals Identity of ‘Slutty Pumpkin’

It turns out that the so-called “Slutty Pumpkin” — first mentioned years ago on CBS’s hit sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” — is the better half of one of Hollywood’s headline-grabbing power couples, former TVWeek staffer Joe Adalian writes…

Famous Rocker Bringing His Show From Web to TV

A rock star (or pop star, depending on your point of view) with a long string of No. 1 hits under his belt as half of one of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s is bringing his Web-based show…

‘Sopranos’ Star Will Try Her Hand at ‘CSI: Miami’

A star who won an Emmy portraying a tormented character on HBO’s “The Sopranos” will see if her luck improves on CBS’s “CSI: Miami,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Drea de Matteo, known for playing the beleaguered Adriana on “Sopranos," will resurface…

Showtime Fills Top PR Spot

Showtime announced that it has filled its top communications position, Deadline.com reports. Taking the job of executive VP, Corporate Communictions, is longtime public relations executive Trisha Cardoso. Cardoso takes over the position previously held by Richard Licata, who left Showtime…

Don’t Tell Anyone, but CBS News Has Another Walter Cronkite Waiting in the Wings

It’s apparently supposed to be a best-kept corporate secret, but the cat’s out of the bag now. Quietly working his way up the ranks at CBS News is the grandson of legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, Politico.com reports. Walter Cronkite…

‘X Factor’ Premiere Trumped by Emmy Winner

Fox’s much-hyped premiere of “The X Factor” Wednesday night earned solid overnight ratings, but a show that aired opposite it stole the headlines, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. “X Factor” also failed to reach the heights of the show it’s most often being…

If You Only Read One Story Today (or This Week) Make It This One. This Is The Single Best Article About Business We’ve Read All Year–And We Don’t Anticipate Coming Across a Better One. Its Title: ‘The Top 10 Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us’

Kudos to Eric Jackson over at Forbes for his stunningly impressive article "The Top 10 Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us – If We’ll Listen." Easily the best business article we’ve read this year, and a must-read for anyone hoping…

America’s Wealthiest Media Mogul Hasn’t Really Had a Hands-On Position With His Company in About a Decade. Still, He’s Richer Than Rupert Murdoch, Charlie Ergen, John Malone and Oprah. It’s Forbes’ Annual List of the Nation’s Wealthiest 400 People

It’s Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans. And according to an article about the list in The Hollywood Reporter, "The first media mogul on the list released Wednesday is Michael Bloomberg, who is No. 12 with $19.5 billion."…