The way Howard Stern sees it, Las Vegas is the perfect city for “America’s Got Talent.” “Just looking around Vegas, out of all the markets that watch this show in the United States, Vegas more than anything understands this show because we have that variety aspect,” the second-term “AGT” judge says.
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When Lindsay Lohan gets out of rehab this summer, Oprah Winfrey will be waiting to talk to her.
It may not have been the hot-stone massage for the temporal lobe that Aaron Sorkin-ites wanted. But to be hate-watched?
Teenage female characters are sexual fodder for broadcast network TV series, especially comedies, according to an advocacy group’s new study.
Whistling. Jangling keys. Tickling feet.
HLN network chief executive Scot Safon resisted any impulse to call his counterpart at CNN, Jeff Zucker, to say “What are you doing to me?” when he learned that CNN scheduled a nightly hour on the George Zimmerman murder trial for the same time HLN was airing one.
A Mormon church-owned NBC television station in Utah plans to begin showing first-run “Saturday Night Live” episodes this fall after years of refusing to air the sketch comedy show.
NEW YORK — The creator of “The Sopranos” said at James Gandolfini’s funeral that the actor brought the traits of a sad boy, “amazed and confused,” to the role of Tony Soprano.
“Ray Donovan’s” (10 p.m. Sunday, Showtime) title character, an all-around tough guy (Liev Schreiber), is L.A.’s best fixer.
Paula Deen was dropped by Wal-Mart and her name was stripped from four buffet restaurants on Wednesday, hours after she went on television and tearfully defended herself amid the mounting fallout over her admission of using a racial slur.
Several pieces of memorabilia from the long-running TV series “Bonanza” are going up for auction in Reno, including the branding iron used in the opening credits.
Anthony Zuiker is so good at his job, he spared us all from a reality show called “Dead Celebrity.”
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Watching Paula Deen’s cooking show was a weekend ritual for Marilynne Wilson, who says she’s furious at the Food Network for dumping the comfort-food queen after she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past.
NEW YORK — James Gandolfini’s portrayal of Tony Soprano represented more than just a memorable TV character. He changed the medium, making fellow antiheroes like Walter White and Dexter Morgan possible and shifting the balance in quality drama away from broadcast television.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Food Network said Friday it’s dumping Paula Deen, barely an hour after the celebrity cook posted the first of two videotaped apologies online begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past.