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Los Angeles Times
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An animal rights group says Alicia Silverstone appears naked in a television ad promoting vegetarianism that was to debut Wednesday in Houston.
The 30-second ad was to air about two dozen times in Houston on Wednesday, the People for the Ethical Treatm..
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BBC News
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A group of 49 Japanese magicians is suing two local television networks for revealing the secrets behind a series of coin tricks in news footage.
The case, filed in Tokyo District Court on Tuesday, seeks damages of 1.9m yen (�8,239) from Nippon Telev..
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Los Angeles Times
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For millions of Americans, the digital revolution might not be televised.
One in 5 U.S. households — more than a million in the Los Angeles area — depends on rabbit ears or a rooftop antenna to watch TV. Without converter boxes, most of their sets..
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New York Times
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With a last burst of episodes starting April 8, “The Sopranos,” will exit the television arena for the final time, leaving millions of fans without their all-time favorite series, and a network, HBO, without its Hall of Fame performer.
In its eight..
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News.com.au
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CAUSTIC television talent show judge Simon Cowell, whose comments have reduced many an American Idol entrant to tears, says he deserves to be paid more than American rock legend Bruce Springsteen.
In an interview with CBS television due to be broadcast..
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Variety
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GIVEN THE GLACIAL STATE of change in daytime TV, it's easy to take for granted the enormous influence Oprah Winfrey wields over her adoring audience. Yet with the talk host preparing to expand her empire, it's worth contemplating her genius -- along with..
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www.tvweek.com
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President Bush is reopening the fight over government support of public television, unveiling a 2007 government fiscal year budget that would cut federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by nearly 25 percent...
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Sydney Morning Herald
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When television networks ban an ad promoting a recorder with the ability to skip ads you know advertising is in trouble...
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SF Gate
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Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
Mr. M..
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Washington Post
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Merv Griffin had friends in the right places, and for the 20 years that "The Merv Griffin Show" aired on television, in one form or another, those places included millions of American homes.
He was fun to have around, and so the news of his death yeste..
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CNN
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Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.
Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
"He really..
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FOX News
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Tom Poston, the tall, pasty-faced comic who found fame and fortune playing a clueless everyman on such hit television shows as "Newhart" and "Mork and Mindy," has died. He was 85.
Poston, who was married to Suzanne Pleshette of "The Bob Newhart Show,"..
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Yahoo News
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China state television has started shooting a 40-part television series about U.S.-born kungfu icon Bruce Lee, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
"The Legend of Bruce Lee," with a budget of just $6.4 million, started production at the weekend in the s..
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Yahoo News
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China's broadcasting watchdog has issued a list of rules governing the airing of its latest take on the "American Idol" television series, urging the singing contest "Happy Boys Voice" to uphold high moral standards.
Contestants on "Happy Boys Voice" m..
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BBC News
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US television host Regis Philbin is recovering well from recent heart surgery, according to his co-presenter Kelly Ripa.
Ripa said Philbin, 75, had bypass surgery on Wednesday and is already "up and joking around with nurses".
The former Who Wants T..
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Variety
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Winner for most unusual piece of development this pilot season goes to ABC, which has turned a series of quirky Geico commercials into an actual half-hour comedy project.
"Cavemen" will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as..
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MSNBC
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A new sex scandal has hit “American Idol,” U.S. TV’s most popular program --- but it all could be over Thursday night if a contestant purportedly shown in some X-rated Internet photos is voted off the show.
“Idol” fans have flooded online cha..
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Slate
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One of my most vivid childhood memories is of standing, at 6 years old, in front of the family TV (miniature screen, huge clicky dials, fake wood paneling) and making myself an extremely solemn promise: No matter what happened in my life—no matter where..
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Forbes
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Make room on the couch, American Idol is back. On Jan. 16, the talent show, produced by Fremantle Media and 19 Entertainment for News Corp.'s Fox network, returns for another season of feuds, tears and verdicts. Oh, and some singing, too. Fox, which..
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Yahoo News
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair, who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and became one of the first black women to host her own television variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday...
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