
Fox: Passion, disagreements with new 'Idol' team
Five minutes into their season-opening news conference and the new team at "American Idol" were having their first disagreement — about their ...

Letterman says he sees psychiatrist weekly
Three years after an extortion scandal that led him to bare his infidelities, David Letterman said he sees a psychiatrist once a week to try to be the ...
Protest over proposed show on prolific rapper
Oxygen television executives weren't talking Monday as negative attention grew about "All My Babies' Mamas," its proposed program featuring a musician ...
'Smash' musical getting cast album
The Broadway show within a show on NBC's "Smash" is getting its own cast album. NBC and Columbia Records said Sunday that a 22-song cast album for ...
NBC execs say it's not a 'shoot-'em-up' network
NBC executives said Sunday they are conscious about the amount of violence they air in the wake of real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school ...

Michael J. Fox to play newscaster in new NBC show
On his upcoming NBC comedy, Michael J. Fox will play a newscaster who had quit his job due to Parkinson's Disease but returns to work in the show's ...
Playboy an inspiration for McCarthy show
Jenny McCarthy says she's looking to Hugh Hefner's old "Playboy After Dark" as an inspiration for her new talk show. The actress and former Playboy ...
TV documentary features presidents' staff chiefs
Makers of a Discovery network documentary on presidential chiefs of staff have a perfect participation record. All 19 living men who had that job gave ...
Bombing victim grateful for tragedy counseling
When Carolyn McKinstry hears that young survivors of a mass shooting like last month's in Connecticut are receiving counseling, she can speak to its ...
Pacino says he didn't want to meet Spector
Al Pacino said Friday that he decided not to meet famed record producer and convicted killer Phil Spector before portraying him in an HBO movie — only ...
HBO to make adaption of AIDS play
Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo will star in an HBO movie adaptation of "The Normal Heart," the play about the onset of the AIDS crisis in New York ...
Wahlberg: I'm not making a Boston 'COPS'
Donnie Wahlberg says he doesn't think he'd be allowed back in his hometown if he made a Boston version of "COPS." The actor is producing a nonfiction ...

TBS only briefly considered 'Cougar Town' change
TBS and the makers of "Cougar Town" say they only briefly considered changing the show's title with its move to cable TV, but they didn't want to ...

Stanford holds off Wisconsin 20-14 in Rose Bowl
Andrew Luck, Toby Gerhart and coach Jim Harbaugh started Stanford's improbable football renaissance, yet they never stood in the center of the Rose ...

Heartwarming moments defy chill at Rose Parade
A couple who became husband and wife on the "Love Float," a surprise reunion between a returning soldier and his little boy, and a grand marshal famed ...
Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year
Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, ...