
Haley Reinhart, Lauren Alaina
The two remaining American Idol girls need to step up their game if they want to end the guys' winning streak. The last time a female won, fans were still waiting for the final Harry Potter book to hit shelves and Bob Barker was still hosting The Price Is Right.
But after only four female wins in the show's past nine seasons (including hugely successful alums Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood), the men have dominated the last four seasons, including the current one. With only two women left and seven weeks to go...
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Jack LaLanne
Jack LaLanne, a TV pioneer who urged coach potatoes to get fit long before Richard Simmons and others, has died, his longtime agent told The Associated Press. He was 96.
Rick Hersh told the AP that LaLanne died of respiratory failure from pneumonia Sunday at his home in Morro Bay, Calif.
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John Lithgow
One of How I Met Your Mother's mysteries is about to be revealed.
John Lithgow will play Barney Stinson's estranged father, Jerome Whitaker, Cobie Smulders confirmed on TV Guide Network's Hollywood 411.
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Bob Barker
Bob Barker says he's doing fine after fainting at a Los Angeles shooting range last week.
"My healthy young body has bounced back," Barker told Access Hollywood Live.
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How I Met Your Mother
Barney Stinson is never shy about using superlatives on How I Met Your Mother, but the man who writes those lines, creator/executive producer Carter Bays, exercises greater restraint.
Except when describing the upcoming sixth season.
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"Honestly, I never say stuff like this, but I think this is will be our best season yet," Bays tells TVGuide.com. "I'm going to call my shot and say that. At the end of last season, I think we were all feeling really old, and there's been kind of a rejuvenation around here. I think a lot of it has to do with the stories of the season."
After two seasons primarily of stand-alone episodes, the time-jumping sitcom will ...
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How I Met Your Mother
Concerned that their show had become too "sitcom-my" last season, lacking the emotional growth of the show's earlier years, How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have mapped out a pivotal sixth season that, says Bays, will be "more emotionally invested in these characters' lives and tweak the larger mystery of the series in a way that we've never done before...
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Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch and Bob Barker have something in common: They both want to help control the pet population.
VIDEO: Inside "Vogue" with Jane Lynch
The Glee star appears alongside one of her own pooches, Georgia, in a new PETA PSA hat encourages pet owners to get their animals spayed or neutered.
Watch the video after the jump.
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Bob Barker by Gregg DeGuire/ WireImage.com
Even in retirement, Bob Barker is still peeling off Benjamins. The former Price Is Right host is donating $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University, for the purpose of establishing an animal-ethics program.... The 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue will be unveiled on Monday's Late Show with David Letterman. Come Tuesday, the cover model TBA will drop by the talker.... Season 2 of Showtime's The Tudors premieres March 30 at 9 pm/ET. (Watch a preview video here.)
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Drew Carey host of The Price Is Right by Monty Brinton/CBS
Giggling at the antics of the slap-happy contestants who come on down at what he calls the happiest place on Earth, Drew Carey looks like hes having a blast, and looks right at home, on the spiffed-up set of The Price Is Right as he takes over as host today. Theres no fuss and no ceremony, and outside of the introduction telling us were at the Bob Barker Studio in Television City, and that one of the games is still called Barkers Bargain Bar, and that Carey chooses to sign off with the traditional plea to have your pets spayed, theres no actual homage to the former host as the new Price era begins.And yet, probably the greatest tribute to Bob Barker is that the show goes on, and goes on effortlessly with its funny-looking new ringleader, who appears to be genuinely tickled at the breathless excitement of the frantic folks who come to play the game. When one of the contestants does a cartwheel after taking the stage, C...
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Drew Carey, The Price Is Right
Drew Carey has the cold sweats, but not because he's worried about replacing Bob Barker as the new host of The Price Is Right. The guy is sick — bad sick — and he's in his dressing room at CBS in Hollywood downing Theraflu and popping vitamins like mad. Carey really should go home, but there's no rest for the overemployed. Today he still needs to shoot two more episodes of Price, then grab a plane to New York City to tape his other CBS game show, the prime-time Power of 10. It doesn't help that he's also nursing a bum wrist, which he crushed in a much-reported mishap with a turntable door during an early Price rehearsal. When he makes his on-air debut Oct. 15 (check loc
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