With ratings down for the Emmys, Hollywood figures sound off on their proposed extreme makeovers for congrat-fests
In reality television's first bid to attain awards show respectability, it looks like it failed.
The Naked Chef star and his wife, Jools, are expecting their third child in April
Perhaps there's something to these writers, after all.
Retro '60s drama "Mad Men" and legal thriller "Damages" are poised to take a shot at making Emmy Awards history Sunday -- and wooing new fans -- as basic cable's first best-series nominees.
With the Emmy Awards show being emceed this year by five (count 'em) reality TV hosts, it might be time to give the genre its due
If the nation's largest cable TV operators have their way, the home digital video recorder could soon become a relic
For reality television, this weekend's Emmy ceremony promises heady and unprecedented attention.
Five reality-show hosts will take center stage at Sunday's Emmy Awards, both as emcees and nominees. And just like at their day jobs, these five say they're ready for anything.
Boxing and mixed martial arts attract different audiences. In coming together Saturday, Golden Boy Promotions and Affliction Entertainment hope to fuse generations connected by little more than the love of a good fight.
With ratings down for the Emmys, Hollywood figures sound off on their proposed extreme makeovers for congrat-fests
In reality television's first bid to attain awards show respectability, it looks like it failed.
The Naked Chef star and his wife, Jools, are expecting their third child in April
Perhaps there's something to these writers, after all.
Retro '60s drama "Mad Men" and legal thriller "Damages" are poised to take a shot at making Emmy Awards history Sunday -- and wooing new fans -- as basic cable's first best-series nominees.
With the Emmy Awards show being emceed this year by five (count 'em) reality TV hosts, it might be time to give the genre its due
If the nation's largest cable TV operators have their way, the home digital video recorder could soon become a relic
For reality television, this weekend's Emmy ceremony promises heady and unprecedented attention.
Five reality-show hosts will take center stage at Sunday's Emmy Awards, both as emcees and nominees. And just like at their day jobs, these five say they're ready for anything.
Boxing and mixed martial arts attract different audiences. In coming together Saturday, Golden Boy Promotions and Affliction Entertainment hope to fuse generations connected by little more than the love of a good fight.
Keep your bison off my property or risk having them hunted, software executive Jeff Hawn warned his neighbor outside this old Colorado mining town. In a lawsuit he said the animals knocked his satellite television dishes off line and left dung, tracks and hair on "pristine pasture on rolling hills."
Two rifle-bearing lads enter what looks like an abandoned building. They are nervous, for good reason. Snarling vampires attack. There is violence. There is gore. There is even a heart-tugging moment when one of the humans finds his missing girlfriend - only to discover that she too is now a blood-thirsty creature of the night.
When Jon Dalton was discovered by a "Survivor" casting agent at an L.A. gas station several years ago, the chance to win a million dollars wasn't the prize he most desired.
Thailand's prime minister defended himself Monday against accusations he violated the constitution by hosting a televised cooking show while in office, potentially the most damaging of a line of troubles confronting him.
Welcome to CNN Student News, a daily commercial-free, ten-minute broadcast of the day's news geared for middle- and high-school students. CNN Student News can be found on air and online, and whether you're brand new to the program or a longtime viewer, we've got new things in store for you.
The Hills star blogs about her guest role on Do Not Disturb with Jerry O'Connell
Cablevision Systems Corp. is considering several options to boost its stock price including spinning off some of its diverse holdings
They'll join three other reality show hosts to help MC the ceremony
1. Clark Kellogg, CBS Sports: CBS executives first approached Kellogg in May 2007 to gauge his interest about the lead college basketball analyst position should Billy Packer step aside. Well, the moment has arrived.
Reality hosts get their first shot at winning and HBO fills Sopranos void with 23 nominations for John Adams
Mad Men, AMC's sleek drama set in the advertising world circa 1960, and FX's legal thriller Damages made Emmy nominations history as the first basic cable programs to gain best-series nods
The song "1234" is used to help teach kids how to count
Kermit the Frog will be part of an exhibit, "Jim Henson's Fantastic World," at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington
The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet
Big Ten fans received a jolt of good news last week when the conference's co-owned television venture, the Big Ten Network, announced a long-awaited agreement with the nation's largest cable provider, Comcast. Starting Aug. 15, nearly 25 million new customers will have access to the channel, most notably 6.5 million households in seven of the eight states with Big Ten schools.
But Rachael Ray trumps Ellen to be named best talk show
There were enough TV journalists and political strategists to fill several political roundtables attending the funeral for Meet the Press host Tim Russert
Still reeling from Tim Russert's death, NBC News must now contemplate replacing the man with many different roles
Time Warner is dangling an eye-popping $10.9 billion gift to shareholders as part of its spinoff of Time Warner Cable. But it's a gift that will keep on taking in the form of $10 billion in additional debt and a heavy financing burden shifted to the cable unit.
For just shy of one month way back in 1995, the Walt Disney Company was poised to become the world's biggest media company after announcing it was buying ABC/Capital Cities. But mere weeks later, Time Warner announced it was buying Turner Broadcasting, putting itself back into the lead dog position among the media pack as measured by revenue, a position it held through its wayward combination with America Online and up to this week.
Cablevision Systems Corp. is close to buying the Long Island newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million, a person with knowledge of the situation said Sunday.
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island daily paper Newsday, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island daily paper Newsday, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday.
Just as the race for your TV, phone and Internet dollar speeds up, the gains for the companies peddling the triple-play service bundles have slowed to a crawl.
WiMax hopes were revived Wednesday morning, and once again the wireless broadband opportunity is huge - in more ways than one. The big buzz around the wealth of mobile Net potential is almost overshadowed by the massive tab that even six tech giants can't fully cover.
O'Donnell disputes some of Walters's claims but insists, "I love her"
The bidding for Tribune Co.'s Newsday has attracted some of the biggest names in the New York media world. News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch led the charge with a $580 million offer. New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman quickly matched it. Now Cablevision's Dolan family has lobbed in a high bid of $650 million. Cablevision's involvement is the most puzzling of the three. After all, the Dolans are cable guys, not newspaper publishers. Nevertheless, there's a strange logic to it.
As the bloody battle over subscribers between Comcast and its phone and satellite rivals continues at a virtual draw, the cable giant is looking ahead to a new wireless broadband arena: WiMax.
Does Viacom's mix of media businesses make the company recession-resistant?
Does Viacom's mix of media businesses make the company recession-resistant?
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it plans to spin off the rest of its cable TV business, answering investor pleas to further simplify the media conglomerate's sprawling corporate structure
NEW YORK -- The first round lasted three hours and 30 minutes -- the fastest opening round since 1990. The entire process took just 14 hours and 26 minutes.
Computer gamer, come on down! You're the next contestant on "The Price is Right."
The actor and Winfrey spend time together in Colorado for his two-part interview
Cash Joshua was born Monday to the Young & Restless actor and wife Tobe
In Brent Swanson's basement home theater, there should be nothing drab about Battlestar Galactica.
Singer Leona Lewis has become the first British artist to debut at number one in the U.S. album charts.
Though her contract ends in 2011, the anchor could exit in January 2009
CBS News and "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric are downplaying a Wall Street Journal report that Couric plans to leave the network long before her contract expires in 2011.
Sen. Barack Obama says in an interview that aired on TV Friday that he would have left his church if his pastor had not retired and had not acknowledged making comments that "deeply offended people."
Something remarkable happened on Thursday - an Internet service provider and a peer-to-peer software company announced a collaboration and agreed to work together.
Comcast Corp., an Internet service provider under investigation for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, announced Thursday an about-face in its stance and said it will treat all types of Internet traffic equally.
WiMax may not be dead after all.
It has not been an easy year for investors.
1. W.C. Heinz, writing craftsman: His was the age before sportswriters begged for points for their sports arguments and preened for the cameras. Heinz passed from earth last week at 93, but his words stay aloft forever. There has never been a better deadline sports story than this one.
Something stinks in the world of Spygate. Call it a spectre over Specter. Call it a distasteful conflict of interest. Call it an unfair accusation against a Senator with motives more pure than a Troy Aikman spiral. Call it manna from heaven for Bill Belichick and his morally impaired Patriots staff. But whatever you call it, don't say that it doesn't have tongues wagging in NFL suites and behind the closed doors of Congress.
It's no secret that the Internet, digital video recorders and video games are sucking audiences away from broadcast television and radio. Just how painful that shift is for traditional media hit home Tuesday when CBS, owner of the country's most popular television network, released its earnings.
Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis has a new menu to plan: her own.
Former ABC News chief national security correspondent John McWethy died from injuries in a Colorado skiing accident, a coroner said Thursday.
Time Warner's new chief executive officer confirmed Wednesday that the media company is separating its struggling AOL access business from the division's growing online advertising business, a move that could lead to the sale of the traditional dial-up unit.
Are we heading into a recession? Wall Street may have a better idea after three big media companies report quarterly results this week.
The Writers Guild of America, East met with members of Congress in an attempt to raise awareness about the ongoing strike
Headlines about Oprah Winfrey last week focused, quite rightly, on the icon's plans to start her own cable television channel. But there's another story to be told about Winfrey's partner in the venture, Discovery Communications, and how its relatively new CEO is on a mission to remake the company.
Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey announced the Discovery Health network will be turned over to Winfrey next year, becoming OWN -- the Oprah Winfrey Network
Tim Burton's macabre musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won big at the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards, announced during a live press conference from Hollywood on Sunday, while the film's star, Johnny Depp, picked up best actor in movie comedy or musical.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says he remembers walking around the Consumer Electronics Show five years ago with Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt. He recalls seeing a big presence from his rivals in the satellite-television business. His own industry, by contrast, was nowhere to be found.
Analysis: It may have caved in allowing all its fans to watch the Patriots play for an undefeated season, but the league network's battle with cable companies is far from over
Among some of her fans and their parents, Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears may have lost some of her status as a 'tween idol. But there are many other young actors, actresses and singers whose talent could soon make them household names.
JAY GLAZER, Fox Sports: The list of organizations more secretive than the NFL isn't long (the Kremlin, CIA and MI-6 come to mind), which makes Glazer's investigative work this season all the more impressive. The Fox insider nabbed the NFL scoop of the year by procuring a copy of the Patriots' now infamous videotape of the Jets' defensive signals ("the Magruder tape," his Fox colleague Howie Long dubbed it before host Curt Menefee mentioned something called the Zapruder film). Glazer then followed his Spygate scoop by getting the video surveillance tape from the March 19 brawl at the Palms casino between Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter and Bengals lineman Levi Jones. Glazer said the Dolphins and the league office pressured Fox not to air the tape.
The new year will see new shows from Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, says NBC.
The phone business has been very good to the cable industry.
Trophy season kicked into high gear Thursday morning, with an impressive roster of seven movies nominated for best dramatic picture in the Golden Globes race.
Alex Trebek, the long-time host of the popular television quiz show "Jeopardy," suffered a minor heart attack at his home Monday night.
Last time we heard from Michael Symon, chef-owner of Lola and Lolita in Cleveland, he had just battled some of the nation's best chefs on the Food Network's Next Iron Chef to earn the esteemed title of Iron Chef. Joining the four other Iron Chefs -- Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, and Masaharu Morimoto -- means he will test his skill, speed, and creativity against cunning culinary challengers in Iron Chef America's Kitchen Stadium on a rotating basis.
Wayne H. Davis doesn't look like much of a rabble-rouser. A tall, balding 53-year-old, Davis has the unassuming demeanor of a high school math teacher. And the way he peppers his conversations with acronyms, he sounds more like an engineer (which he is) than an agitator.
Ugly Betty star America Ferrera and High School Musical hunk Zac Efron were among the winners at the ninth Family Television Awards Wednesday night in Beverly Hills.
Michigan-Ohio State. Yankees-Red Sox. Duke-North Carolina. Cowboys-Packers. When bitter sports rivals backed by massive resources face off against one another, fans are typically the winners.
The father of a girl who complained about the conduct of a dormitory matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls here said Wednesday he fully supports the talk show host and her vision for the school.
Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Wyclef Jean and Norah Jones join CNN for a live global telecast honoring ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Michigan-Ohio State. Yankees-Red Sox. Duke-North Carolina. When bitter sports rivals backed by massive resources face off against one another, fans are typically the winners.
Jeon Do-yeon won the Best Actress prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her performance in the South Korean film "Secret Sunshine." Celebrated in her native South Korea for her roles in melodramatic soap operas and independent films, Jeon is the first Asian to win this prestigious prize. South Korea's most famous actress joins Talk Asia to discuss her rise into renown and takes a stroll around the cultural neighborhood of Daehango in Seoul with host Anjali Rao.
Video courtesy The Rachael Ray Show. Rachael Ray briefly got as hot under the collar as her oven Friday, when she said tabloid reports about her marriage "are really killing me."
As the writers' strike nears the end of its second week, Letterman, Leno and others face a difficult dilemma: support their union, or save the jobs of dozens of staffers?
Maintaining the tradition of having a child of Hollywood royalty in charge of handing out the prize at hand, Rumer Willis was named Miss Golden Globe 2008 on Wednesday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
And the next Iron Chef is ... Michael Symon! The mission for last night's grand finale of The Next Iron Chef: "Attain Greatness."
There were no major surprises in the third-quarter earnings report of Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate.
Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the country's finest grub slingers on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America, also on the Food Network, a subsidiary of EW Scripps Co. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
Video courtesy Warner Bros. Ellen DegeneresGrilled by Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show Monday, Carrie Underwood said that yes, she would be willing to make a home-cooked meal for Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford – but only if he wanted her to, and only if she could find his phone number first.
Viewers may have to get used to a steady stream of reruns now that television and film writers have gone on strike.
Fifteen girls at Oprah Winfrey's South African leadership academy blew open the abuse scandal that the talk show host says shook her to her very core.
Is the country in the middle of a child sexual abuse epidemic? The troubles at the talk-show host's celebrated school raises broader questions
"Arthur" and "Barney" are OK for toddler TV-watching. But not "Rugrats" and certainly not "Power Rangers," reports a new study of early TV-watching
David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien may have to button their lips come Monday – due to the proposed strike of the Writers Guild of America.
Beehive? Bob? Crewcut? Mullet? Hilary Swank's next hairdo is out of her hands, as Oprah Winfrey took the shears to the Oscar winner as part of a charity effort airing Friday on her talk show.
A mother whose daughter and granddaughter attend Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa considers the talk-show host heaven-sent, despite allegations of abuse being investigated there.
Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the country's finest grub slingers on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America, also on the Food Network, a subsidiary of EW Scripps Co. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
She only wanted to give underprivileged African girls a chance at a better life. But a tearful Oprah Winfrey begged for forgiveness Sunday from students' parents at her all-girls academy, currently reeling from allegations of abuse.
Heidi Klum's recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show was more revealing than the supermodel anticipated – but she has no regrets.
Lance Bass is reveling in the attention he's getting from his new memoir, but the former 'N Sync star says there's one person in particular who's playing hard to get.
Michael Symon, chef/owner of Cleveland's acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants, is currently competing with some of the country's finest grub slingers on the Food Network's The Next Iron Chef. The show pits professional chefs in a weekly cook-off based on a unique challenge announced at the beginning of each episode. The winner will join star chefs Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Cat Cora as a regular contestant on Iron Chef America, also on the Food Network, a subsidiary of EW Scripps Co. For the next few weeks (until he either wins the competition or gets eliminated) Chef Symon will report on his contest experiences for FSB.
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