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 Recent investigations have shown that six patients from Woodstock facility died in 2006. According to CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli, a nurse from the Woodstock facility is guilty for the death of those six patients. Marty Himebaugh killed the patients with lethal drug overdoses, as some of her colleagues reported to...
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 Organs donated by a 15-year-old teen have led to the death of two people due to a undiagnosed cancer. Alex Koehne died a year ago from what was thought to be bacterial meningitis, which does not preclude organ transplantation after death. His parents agreed to give away their son's organs to save the lives of others, but instead they...
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 U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton
said on Tuesday that he would hold former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in
contempt of court in case she still refuses to identify her sources related to
a bunch of stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001
anthrax attacks. The federal judge said that the former USA Today...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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Israel's population has grown to over 7.3 million people, the country's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said in figures published Wednesday ahead of the Jewish New Year.
Of those, more than 5.5 million (75.5 per cent) are Jews, while just under 1.5 million are Arabs, who make up 20 per cent of the total population.
The remaining...
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 Janet Jackson, 42, was taken to the hospital before her concert in Montreal, Canada. She seemed to have “got suddenly ill” during her sound check, according to her publicist. Jackson was released from hospital two hours after she had been admitted. The personnel from Royal Victoria Hospital didn’t give any further details about the...
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 Janet Jackson, 42, was taken to the hospital before her concert in Montreal, Canada. The singer now hopes to reschedule the concert, which is part of her “Rock Withcu Tour 2008.” She seemed to have “got suddenly ill” during her sound check, according to her publicist. But last Friday, the 42-year-old singer canceled her concert in...
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 Janet Jackson, 42, has been recording with Island Def Jam for 14 months when she decided to finish her journey on the label’s Island. The singer announced on Monday that she wants to departure from Island Def Jam and her publicist told Reuters that the label agreed to finish the relationship with Janet Jackson whenever she...
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 Lately rumors have been spreading the news that the “Desperate Housewife” Eva Longoria, 33, is pregnant. But Felicity Huffman, her co-star from “Desperate Housewives” announced that Eva isn’t pregnant, “she’s just fat.” Well, it’s up to the Spanish actress to decide which of the two news best “fits” her.On Saturday, Felicity Huffman, 45,...
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 The 36-year-old actress was born in Hollywood, California. Robert Applegate, her father, was a record producer and record company producer executive, and Nancy Lee Priddy, her mother, was a singer. She also had to fight both breast and cervical cancer.Christina Applegate will always remain in the audience’s memory as Kelly Bundy in the...
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 British actress Keira Knightley is reported to be in negotiations regarding starring in a contemporary update of Lerner and Loewe’s 1964 classic musical “My Fair Lady.”“My Fair Lady” was first staged in 1956 featuring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison.Audrey Hepburn and Harrison starred in the Oscar-winning George Cukor-helmed film.Hepburn...
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 WYSP-FM’s Kidd Chris, who was the morning show’s host, along
with a radio station’s program director, John Cook, were fired due to a racy
song which aired for the first time on March 21, during Chris’ show. CBS Corp. found
it extremely inappropriate for the host, whose real name is Chris Foley, to
allow such a song to be performed....
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 The 26-year-old pop star will have expanded visits with her
sons following a child-custody hearing in Los Angeles County Superior court
which was held behind closed doors. Spears will be allowed to see her sons for
longer periods. She will get three days supervised visitation a week and
visitation on Mother’s Day.
Spear’s former...
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 Actor Gary Dourdan, who stars in TV series CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation, was arrested on Monday for possession of narcotics and dangerous
drugs, police officials said, BBC News reports. According to the authorities,
the 41-year-old actor was found asleep in his car by the Palm Springs Police
Department.
It appears police...
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 A Los Angeles
judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ former manager Sam
Lufti until July 31, under an agreement between lawyers for both sides, BBC
News reports. The restraining order was originally put in place in February.
According to Britney Spears’ attorney, Vivian Thoreen,
extending the order was “in...
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 Since dancing is one of her greatest passions, why shouldn’t
she actually host a dancing show? Well, she does. Elizabeth Berkley is going to
host the new Bravo unscripted series “Step It Up and Dance” which is going to
premiere this Thursday. Nevertheless, Berkley
will have to divide her time very well because in parallel with the...
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 It appears that Britney Spears is currently in talks to
reprise her highly rated guest-starring role on the CBS show “How I Met Your
Mother,” Reuters reports. Multiple sources claimed that the producers wanted
her return for at least one more episode, in order to play a dermatology office
assistant named Abby, who falls in love with...
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 Denise Richards shattered the Sheen off her name for good.
In an attempt to leave behind everything related to ex-hubby
Charlie Sheen, Richards won a court decision that removes the name of her former
husband from her legal last name. Richards has never used it for professional
or public purposes, but she definitely wanted to...
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 After his new-born twins were almost accidentally killed in
hospital, actor Dennis Quaid is determined to raise awareness upon the
accidents produced by medical staff.
In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Dennis Quaid talked
about the peril stemming from medical mistakes. He stated that nearly 100,000
Americans are killed in...
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 Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff ruled on
Tuesday that Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter is the sole heir to her estate,
according to Reuters. Furthermore the judge established that the fortune will
be administrated by the deceased model’s companion, Howard K. Stern and Larry
Birkhead, Dannielynn’s biological...
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 Roger M. King, executive of CBS and King World Productions,
the one who syndicated popular shows such shows like “The Oprah Winfrey Show,”
died on Saturday at the age of 63.
King suffered a stroke on Friday at his home in Boca Raton, Fla.
and passed away the next day in hospital, according to Chris Ender, a CBS
spokesman....
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 During the 30th Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., which took place this weekend, recognized Diana Ross, Leon Fleisher, Brian Wilson, Steve Martin and Martin Scorsese for their contributions to American culture.Their career achievements were praised by the United States President, George W. Bush, as he received the visit of the...
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 A career of thirty year can go to the dogs within an
instant, even though we’re talking about New
York radio icon, Don Imus, who has made a name for
his ruthless remarks.
In the same time, the racist, sexist comments – blurred also
by the passing of eight months - weighted less his renowned name, and thus Don Imus
made his way...
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 As a proof of their peaceful relationship, comedian David Letterman is to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for the first time ever, next month. After a rift that lasted more than a decade, with Winfrey sick of being targeted by Letterman’s jokes and constant mutual refusal to appear on each other’s shows, Letterman accepted an...
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 According to recent reports, radio host Don Imus, who was fired for making sexist and racist remarks about Rutgers women's basketball team, and who later on sued CBS over his contract, has finally reached a deal with his former employer. The terms of the settlement in the $120 million lawsuit haven’t been disclosed but it will keep CBS...
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 For the third time this year, Lindsay Lohan checked herself into rehab, this time outside California, in Utah’s Cirque Lodge drug and alcohol treatment center, according to a CBS News report. According to the clinic’s website, the facility was recently named by Town and Country magazine as one of the top substance abuse treatment...
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 Talk show host and news anchor, Tom Snyder, passed away on Sunday in San Francisco from complications of leukemia, his longtime friend and colleague Mike Horowicz confirmed for Associated Press. The 71-year-old folksy former NBC newsman and CBS talk-show emcee revealed in April 2005 he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocyte leukemia, but...
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 Ending weeks of speculation, comedian Drew Carey announced on "The Late Show With David Letterman" yesterday that he has been chosen as the new host of "The Price is Right." "I realize what a big responsibility this is," Carey said. "It's only a game show, but it's the longest-running game show in...
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 Don Imus has taken the blame and the shame for his sexist/racist remarks. He’s seeking justice now and plans to sue CBS Radio for not respecting the contract.
Former radio talk show host Don Imus has hired Martin Garbus, a New York-based attorney at the law firm Davis & Gilbert, to recuperate the money he says CBS Radio owes him...
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 The Emmy Awards 2008 announces the big winners of the night: “Mad Men” and “30 Rock!” The ’60 drama “Mad Men” gained on Sunday night as the first basic-cable show which won a top series awards. Also “30 Rock” staring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin went home with a lot of prizes.Tina Fey took the best comedy series award for her late-night TV...
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 After a lot of scandals about Britney Spears coming or not coming at the MTV VMA’s this Sunday, she is said to be there on stage but not with a performance. She will make an appearance that the MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler said it will be “fun and unexpected.”Britney Spears is nominated for three awards, including Video...
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 CBS Corp.’s pay-TV holding, Showtime Networks Inc.,
announced on Monday that it has accepted to exclusively broadcast movies
produced by The Weinstein Co. for seven years,
starting with 2009.
The deal comprises 95 movies, including titles such as
Quentin Tarantino’s freshly revealed World War Two production “Inglorious
Bastards”...
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 The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “August:
Osage County,” the Tony winner for best play, including four other awards, “Rogers
and Hammerstein’s South Pacific,” which earned seven awards, “In the Heights,”
which won the award for best musical, “Boeing-Boeing,” the winner for best play
revival, “South-Pacific,” nominated for 11 Tony...
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 After only six months as the executive producer of “The
Early Show”, broadcast on CBS, Shelley Ross was dismissed from the network. The
reason for her sacking was apparently that her managerial style did not coincide with
the staff’s expectations. According to the Washington Post her line of
program-turnaround was too much for them....
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 While everyone is eager to see the outcome at the Academy
Awards ceremony, journalists were yearning to learn about their own awards.
We are now making reference to the Polk Awards, a means of
recognizing the excellence in journalism. The awards are administered by Long Island University and made their debut in 1949
in the...
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 The Writers Guild of America, representing approximately 10,500 film and television writers, agreed on Monday to “an interim agreement” with the producers of the Grammy Awards due next month, Reuters reported.
The 50th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, the most important of the music industry, is to be broadcasted on February...
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 Dr. Phil thought he might get lucky, but he met severe
criticism and reconsidered his position.
We’re talking about his TV shrinking show and his initiative
to bring pop queen/ emotional wreck Britney Spears in front of the cameras in
order, of course, to cure her and not to draw immense audience rates.
Dr. Phil McGraw visited...
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 US talk show host David Letterman's production company has reached a
deal with striking writers allowing his shows to return to air, The New
York Times reported Saturday.
The agreement between Worldwide Pants and the Writer's Guild of
America (WGA) is the first between the sides since Hollywood screen and
television writers...
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 Apparently, Oprah Wienfrey and David Letterman have put their past behind them and finally decided to share the stage again.
Letterman will be making special appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey
Show" next month. Letterman will tape the interview, a rare appearance
on someone else's show, on Sept. 10 at Madison Square Garden in...
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 The now-infamous Don Imus incident seems to have changed the way radio sounds, even if it is satellite – Opie & Anthony have been suspended.
Greg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia, of “The Opie & Anthony Show,” have received a 30-day suspension from XM Satellite Radio, thus becoming the first shock jocks to...
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 As further proof that radio is not actually no man’s land, CBS continues its disciplinary measures and fires Dog House, a morning team, for an offensive prank call at a Chinese restaurant.
The Doghouse, with Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay (aka J.V. and Elvis), had been working at CBS Radio's New York affiliate, WFNY-FM (92.3). That...
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 Opie and Anthony, hosts on XM Satellite Radio, have apologized for the extremely explicit and violent sexual remarks made by a guest on their show.
Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia, hosts of radio talk show “Opie & Anthony,” have apologized for a segment in their May 9 show, that included extremely vulgar comments.
The two...
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The unemployed level in the Netherlands is expected to reach 4.5 per cent in 2008, government sources told Dutch news wire ANP on Thursday.
Official figures, calculated by the Dutch Central Planning Bureau (CPB), which provides statistics to the government, have not been published yet.
ANP quoted unnamed government sources as...
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 According to Nielsen Media Research ratings statistics
released on Tuesday, the NBC aptitude show “America’s Got Talent” was the top pick
of TV watchers for the third week in a row, while ABC’s new reality series “Wipeout”
obtained the second spot once more.
For the week of July 7-13, the most viewed TV shows were: “America's
Got...
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 On Tuesday night, the American Film Institute announced the
10 greatest movies in 10 classic American film genres during a three-hour
special TV event on the CBS Television Network.
The jury, composed of 1,500 film artists, critics and
historians declared the following films as the very best in their category: 2001:
A Space...
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 On Tuesday, Man & Machine, a computer peripherals maker, took Apple and CBS to court, on charges of trademark-infringement. This came after the company began selling its Mighty Mouse, "a waterproof optical mouse for medical, industrial, and marine applications," way back, in March 2004. The sale of Apple’s Mighty Mouse was...
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AT&T Inc. officials have confirmed that
the company is getting ready to launch a new video service on Sunday for a
monthly fee of $15.
AT&T will share eight channels with
Verizon Wireless (CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV,
NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go and Nickelodeon) and will also offer its clients...
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Reality TV guru Mark Burnett has been slapped
with a 70-million-dollar lawsuit by a former partner who claims the
producer reneged on a deal to pay him 10 per cent of the profits from
shows like Survivor and The Apprentice.
Conrad Riggs, a former Disney executive, claimed in the lawsuit that
he played a key role in helping Burnett...
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 U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to meet the three U.S. presidential candidates Thursday before
holding talks with President George W. Bush in Washington. As British newspapers pointed
comparisons between the premier’s three-day visit in the U.S. and the chronicled trip of Pope
Benedict XVI, a British official said that the...
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 Richard Butler, a journalist who works for the US television
network CBS, was rescued by Iraqi forces. They found him in a house in Basra with a hood over
his head, said the Iraqi defence ministry. The journalist was held hostage for
more that two months.
“Thank you and I'm looking forward to seeing my family and
my friends at...
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The MediaFLO-based Mobile TV service from AT&T was
recently announced to be launched in May. It will feature two exclusive content
channels, one of which is Sony Pictures Television's PIX. Nonexclusive deals were
also made with ESPN, NBC, CBS and Nickelodeon.
Sony’s approach is in fact to show entire films and not to
go...
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 Even though CBS’ musical series “Viva Laughlin” proved to be
a flop and was canceled, Hugh Jackman didn’t hesitate to get involved in a new
project.
Virgin Comics and the actor have struck an agreement to
release a new comic book series called “Nowhere Man,” as Virgin said in a
statement on Tuesday.
Australian actor Hugh...
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 Kenny Chesney received Tuesday 11 nominations for the Academy of Country Music. Some of the nominations
are entertainer of the year, album of the year, top male vocalist, song of the
year and video of the year. Chesney is followed by Rodney Atkins with six
nominations and Brad Paisley, Big & Rich and Sugarland each of...
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 Twenty-five years after Michael Jackson’s best-selling album “Thriller” was launched, a remixed and remastered anniversary version came out on the market, featuring some popular stars.
Although it is not considered a musical masterpiece, “Thriller” is the best-selling album in the world, having sold 104...
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 On Wednesday, CBS Corp announced that it had reached a deal with Yahoo Inc., according to which its web videos will be carried by the latter. This means that Yahoo would be part of the CBS Audience Network and would join a rather special group that brings together some of the biggest names out there, including Google Inc's YouTube,...
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 Adobe released on Wednesday its new Media Player along with downloadable and streamable content and instructional videos. The software rivals Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Apple's QuickTime and RealNetworks' RealPlayer. The video content that is offered by Adobe includes episodes of CSI: Miami and CSI: New York and music videos....
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 After about four
months since its test launch, Hulu was finally made available to the public on
Wednesday! People, as well as tech industry’s analysts, have long waited for this
service that was said to become YouTube’s most important enemy.
Similarly to
Google’s YouTube, Hulu represents an online video service; however, Hulu...
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 CBS Mobile announced on Wednesday
that it had joined forces with Loopt, a mapping and communications provider. Thanks
to this new deal, CBS Mobile will be able to offer its users location-based
mobile ads on its news and sports web sites.
CBS Mobile and Loopt are very
proud of their project, which is reportedly the first of its...
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 The youth social network web site Bebo has signed up to Google’s OpenSocial widget platform, launching Open Media, a system that allows content owners to post videos from their own shows by using their own players and advertising.Bebo is trying to keep up with market leaders such as MySpace and Facebook Inc., as it wants to add popular...
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 MySpace, Microsoft Corp., CBS
Corp. and other such important media companies have recently showed their
support to the copyright protection of the works of any nature. According to
these important companies, any web site featuring user-generated content should
have the obligation of deploying the so called “state-of-the-art”...
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 Adobe has recently launched the beta
version of its brand new media player that will use the same streaming technology,
as well as the same format that YouTube and other video sharing web sites feature.
Yahoo! Inc., CBS and PBS, as well as several other important Internet companies
have already pledged their support for Adobe’s new...
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 Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Amy Jacobson sued
a CBS station in Chicago,
claiming it aired a videotape of her in bathing attire at the home of a
potential news source, whose estranged wife Lisa has been missing since April
2007.
Jacobson claims the CBS station WBBM-TV
broadcast the tape “with the sole motive of boosting its...
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 Along with Disney and Time Warner, Lehman
Brothers lowered its ratings on News Corp and CBS Corp fearing the television
and film industry could suffer the negative consequences of the transition to
digital broadcasting, according to Reuters.
“To be clear, our fear is that the damage
that digital distribution inflicted on the...
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 American television is testing the American
endurance, the tolerance and taste for Japanese game shows of its viewers. ABC’s
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show” which premiered Tuesday, June 24, performed
well and pulled in 8 million viewers. It was the winner in the competition with
Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” which brought in front of the...
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 “Celebrity Rehab” dramatizes the real life
experiences of a group of actual celebrities that decide to change their life
and introduce themselves into a drug, alcohol, and addiction treatment program.
The most important motivation is the sincere desire and dream to truly achieve rehabilitation
and recovery.
The movie tells the...
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 Three broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC will
donate an hour of commercial-free, prime-time television on Sept.5 for a national
show to raise funds for cancer research and treatments.
The broadcast, “Stand Up To Cancer,” will
feature live performances from recording artists as well as movie stars who
will give information about...
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 We don’t actually know for sure how the same stunt will
bring the same result, but here it is: Britney Spears will return for another
cameo role in CBS’ sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”
According to celebrity site People.com, a source announced
that the pop star would return for another episode of the comedy series. “The
show is...
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 Odds seem more favorable that “90210” fans see Jennie Garth
reprise her role as Kelly Taylor, now that she renounced her role in the CBS
sitcom “My Best Friend’s Girl.”
Garth suddenly abandoned the CBS pilot comedy, after the
table read on Monday. The decision was commented as a mutual decision taken by
the actress and the...
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 No ratings, no broadcast! That’s what the CBS network
thought of when it canceled “The Secret Talents of the Stars” after just one
episode. The series featuring celebrities who try to discover some unknown
talents was dismissed due to the fact that the debut episode on Tuesday drew an
audience of only 4.6 million viewers, according...
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 Despite the fact that she did a good work in her cameo role
in the TV comedy series “How I Met Your Mother,” Britney Spears won’t become a
household regular.
The pop singer made a remarkable acting performance,
demonstrating in her March 24 cameo that she is not just a tabloid headlines
generator, but also a capable artist....
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 Ray Romano, 50, will play Joe, a neurotic divorced man in
his 40s, on cable network TNT’s pilot “Men of a Certain Age.”
Everybody knows Raymond “Ray” Romano for his starring role
on the CBS sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” (the cast and format were more
suitable to Romano’s type of...
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 The pop star’s cameo appearance in CBS’ hit sitcom “How I
Met Your Mother” has drawn one million more viewers in front of the TV on
Monday.
Nielsen Media Research reported that the rates of this
week’s episode augmented by 1 million, rising to 10.7 million viewers.
Spears who played the role of a geeky receptionist that...
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 We’ve seen various faces of Britney Spears: innocent girl,
famous pop artist, happy bride, proud mother, party girl, paparazzi target, but
never saw her as a geek. Tonight’s our chance, though, as the popular artist
will appear in a small cameo role in the hit TV series “How I Met Your Mother.”
CBS will be able to present Britney...
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 We expect that in the very near future there won’t be any
peanuts left on the market, as the entire amount will be drowning CBS.
“Jericho” fans may try again
the peanut stunt, however CBS closes down for good the TV series focusing on
the aftermath of a nuclear war that has affected a large part of the US.
The last episode of the...
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