No one has come close to replicating the power and fortune amassed by legendary TV hosts Dick Clark, Merv Griffin and Oprah Winfrey — yet. But American Idol's Ryan Seacrest is on his way, and others are right behind.
Today's TV hosts aren't satisfied with just their day jobs. If you don't have multiple shows, a line of licensed merchandise and a production company, you're not trying hard enough. It's all about creating empires, and...
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Laugh if you want, but Carson Daly may have started the social TV movement way back in 1998 with MTV's interactive call-in countdown show Total Request Live. Today, he hosts NBC's fiercely social singing competition The Voice. (In between, he has hosted NBC's late-late-night show Last Call with Carson Daly.) TRL and The Voice may feel miles apart on the music-show spectrum, but they've both contributed to the socialization of TV. We talked to Daly about his role in shaping TRL, adapting the Dutch formula for The Voice and the role of quality in social success...
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All four celebrity mentors of NBC's The Voice will be back.
The show, which gave the network a badly needed ratings hit, is keeping Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Cee-Lo Green and Adam Levine as the "musician coaches" for Season 2, NBC announced Thursday.
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Oh, what a fast and furious ride this first season of The Voice has been, huh? The soaring songs, the judges' jabs... the cotton-candy rat's nest on Christina Aguilera's head. Good times. And now that Javier Colon has rightfully been crowned the inaugural winner, we'd like to look back at some of the vital life lessons we have picked up from the show over the last 10 weeks.
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As the first winner of The Voice, Javier Colon received votes from millions of fans across the country. But for the 33-year-old father, it was hearing from his two young daughters after his triumph that made the biggest difference.
"My oldest, who's 3-and-a-half, said, 'Daddy, we got to watch you win on TV!" Colon told reporters hours after his big victory Wednesday. "It just reaffirms why I did this in the first place and what this has always been to me."
The Voice finale: And the winner is ...
Colon nabbed the $100,000 prize and a recording contract Wednesday following a nail-biting finish with fellow finalist Dia ...
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