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'Fringe' star John Noble celebrates weird science AP - Wed Nov 18, 1:43 PM ET
NEW YORK - Dr. Walter Bishop follows in a long line of mad scientists. An unbalanced genius like Bishop going at it in his lab is a pop-culture staple. Or even, some would say, a cliche.
DirecTV appoints Pepsi exec White as CEO Reuters - Wed Nov 18, 2:07 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - DirecTV Group Inc said on Wednesday it will appoint PepsiCo Inc executive Michael White as its new chief executive starting on January 1.
3 celebs head to 'Dancing With the Stars' final AP - Wed Nov 18, 7:01 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - Model Joanna Krupa is leaving "Dancing With the Stars."
Ryan Seacrest granted restraining order AP - Tue Nov 17, 12:27 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - A judge has granted a civil restraining order against a man accused of stalking Ryan Seacrest.
A growing TV cover-up: Obnoxious pop-up promos AP - Tue Nov 17, 9:30 AM ET
NEW YORK - Somewhere in the universe of TV viewers, there's got to be a person who actually likes those pop-up, on-screen promotions.
Mass. judge tosses lawsuit against Hasselbeck AP - Mon Nov 16, 9:20 PM ET
BOSTON - A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit accusing television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck of plagiarism.
Heidi, Spencer Pratt shopping own reality TV show AP - Mon Nov 16, 6:26 PM ET
NEW YORK - Reality TV personalities Heidi and Spencer Pratt said Monday they want to branch out from MTV's "The Hills" and star in their own reality show to give viewers a bigger peek into their lives.
CBS launching turn-of-decade project AP - Mon Nov 16, 12:44 PM ET
NEW YORK - CBS News is planning an ambitious turn-of-decade look at America's position in the world that's also designed as an opening competitive shot at Diane Sawyer.
Dobbs says his departure from CNN was 'amicable' AP - Mon Nov 16, 8:56 AM ET
NEW YORK - Lou Dobbs says he doesn't feel like he was pushed out of CNN, the news organization where he worked for all but two years of its existence until last Wednesday.
British scientist says she penned call-girl blog AP - Sun Nov 15, 1:15 PM ET
LONDON - A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a TV series.
Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover AP - Sun Nov 15, 1:26 AM ET
NEW YORK - Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.
TV's Jon Gosselin sues TLC, cites child labor laws AP - Fri Nov 13, 6:14 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Jon Gosselin has filed a counter lawsuit against the TLC network, claiming television producers violated Pennsylvania's child labor laws in filming the hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and are preventing him from working.
TV's Jon Gosselin sues TLC citing child labor laws AP - Fri Nov 13, 6:02 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Jon Gosselin has filed a counter lawsuit against the TLC network, claiming television producers violated Pennsylvania's child labor laws in filming the hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and are preventing him from working.
Documents say Crawford, husband being extorted AP - Fri Nov 13, 2:10 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - A German man was charged Thursday with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber over a photo of their daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said.
Brothel owner fears employee killed in Okla. fire AP - Thu Nov 12, 11:17 PM ET
OKLAHOMA CITY - The owner of a Nevada brothel featured on the HBO reality show "Cathouse" said Thursday he fears one of his employees is among the four people whose bodies were found in a burning house in Oklahoma City.
`Wipeout' TV show player with rare condition dies AP - Thu Nov 12, 7:04 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - A contestant who was hospitalized after competing briefly on the game show "Wipeout" died two weeks later of a stroke apparently caused by a rare condition, his father said.
'Office Space' star Ron Livingston weds AP - Thu Nov 12, 12:54 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt have tied the knot.
ABC shows `Hank' the door; another Grammer loss AP - Thu Nov 12, 12:01 PM ET
NEW YORK - TV network ABC's cancellation of the comedy "Hank" makes it two failures in three years for star Kelsey Grammer.