Katy Perry
Katy Perry was absent from the People's Choice Awards (don't worry — she gave fans a heads up via Twitter) but still ended up the big winner.
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Taylor Swift
Female vocalists dominated at the 2011 American Music Awards, as Taylor Swift, yet again, was the top winner of the evening, picking up three awards — Favorite Country Female Artist, Country Album and Artist of the Year. "This is crazy," Swift excitedly told the crowd Sunday night.
Adele received two statues, for Favorite Female Pop/Rock Music Artist and Pop/Rock Music Album. Nicki Minaj took home both Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Rap/Hip-Hop Album. "There's so much love in this room," Minaj exclaimed after winning her...
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Danny DeVito and Charlie Day
His TV show is in its seventh season. He starred in a hit summer film. And his wife is having a baby! But this is no time to relax and enjoy the moment, as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day learned when he hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. During his monologue, Day got a surprise visit from his Sunny co-star Danny DeVito, who said guys like him and Day have to work because they're not pretty boys. "You're a virgin, man. You gotta put out for these people," DeVito said. It pushed Day to sing a song and play some — as he called it — mediocre...
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Emma Stone and Jason Segel
Charlie Day, Emma Stone and Jason Segel will take the Saturday Night Live stage as hosts in November, NBC announced Monday.
Day, who stars in the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, will make his hosting debut Nov. 5. He'll be joined by musical guest Maroon 5, returning for a third appearance. Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy will perform alongside the group for their hit song "Stereo Hearts."
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President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama's speech won't conflict with the kickoff of the NFL season — but it will skewer pregame coverage.
NBC Universal has instead punted that coverage to its cable outlets — Versus, USA Network, Syfy and G4 — while the president presents his job-creation plan to a joint session of Congress on the NBC broadcast network. NFL Opening Kickoff 2011, featuring performances by Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum and Maroon 5, will return to NBC after the speech...
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Reba McEntire and Monica
NBC's new singing competition The Voice is adding more star power to its already super-charged panel of judges. Reba McEntire, Monica, Sia and Adam Blackstone have joined the show as "industry insiders" who will help mentor the contestants alongside the coaches, the network announced Friday.
Coaches Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton chose...
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Cee Lo Green
Even Carson Daly was suspicious of The Voice's bright red swivel chairs.
On NBC's new singing competition, things kick off with those chairs and blind auditions. Four celebrity coaches sit listening with their backs to the contestants. Should they like what they hear, they slam down on a large button and their chairs swivel to the front. This means they want to guide that contestant through the competition, helping them with everything from their song choices to their style.
Daly, the late-night talk show host and former MTV veejay, first thought it might be "gimmicky" but ultimately found it to be "a great idea in an American Idol world."
"Young people seem to be so enamored with just becoming famous," Daly says. "This immediately takes all of that out. Here, you need skill. You need to be an artist that established artists want to help mold."
And there's the difference: The Voice, adapted from a massively popular Dutch format, aims not to take on Idol in its own game, but to elevate the game itself. Rather than leaving the contestants to plod along, choosing ill-suited songs or worse, the show enlists its coaches — Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton — to mentor the hopefuls. And in a unique twist, the contestants will cherry pick their coach should more than one of them swivel forward.
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Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green
To hear Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tell it, NBC's upcoming singing competition The Voice will be nothing like American Idol.
For one thing, there will be no mean-spirited judges. For another, there will be no "judges."
"I think it's less about being judgmental and more about helping the singers out," he said Tuesday during a press conference. "That's kind of a dirty word, here on The Voice... Judge. Judging."
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Top Chef Masters
Top Chef Masters is changing up its format and judges table for its upcoming third season, Bravo announced Wednesday.
At the judges tables, famous food critic and author Ruth Reichl joins regular James Oseland and replaces departing judge Gael Greene. Greene, however, will return for one episode this season. As previously reported, celebrity chef Curtis Stone will join the show as the new host, replacing...
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Cee Lo and Adam Levine
Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine will serve as judges for NBC's upcoming singing competition series The Voice, the network announced Monday.
"These amazing artists are the perfect inspiration for our contestants to look up to as they begin their journeys from 'voices' to true artists — and any hopeful singer would be incredibly lucky to have either one as their coach," network executive Paul Telegdy said in a statement.
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