America's Got Talent, Howard Stern
Howard Stern may be famous for being a shock-jock who doesn't pull any punches, but when he makes his America's Got Talent debut, audiences will be treated to a more "compassionate" side of the guy who once wore these.
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Social TV
We may not know everything about social media's effect on a show's ratings -- most measures of success are anecdotal at best -- but a new book, aptly titled Social TV: How Marketers Can Reach and Engage Audiences by Connecting Television to the Web, Social Media, and Mobile, attempts to establish best practices for harnessing the social TV movement.
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Kirk Cameron
Kirk Cameron is in hot water after the former Growing Pains star called homosexuality "unnatural" and "destructive" on Piers Morgan Tonight.
"It's unnatural," Cameron said on the show Friday. "I think that it's - it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the...
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Ashton Holmes and Emily VanCamp
Our top moments of the week:
12. Most Self-Serving Injury: After getting hospitalized for heat stroke and leaving her teammates Ty and Ed in a lurch, Top Chef's Sarah conveniently returns just in time to serve the judges. As soon as Padma & Co. walk away with their plates, Sarah is overcome with dizziness and bails on her team again, setting off red flags for Ed. "I have no guilty feelings," she says of her every-man-for-himself quickie appearance. Well, of course not. After all, you were the one who had no...
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Piers Morgan, Celia Walden
It's a girl for Piers Morgan.
The Piers Morgan Tonight host and his wife, British columnist Celia Walden, have welcomed daughter Elise, he announced Friday.
"It's true. I've become a dad for the fourth ...
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Simon Cowell
The X Factor's Simon Cowell is certainly making an entrance into the Twitterverse. In barely 24 hours...
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Howard Stern
Shock jock Howard Stern is in "serious negotiations" to join America's Got Talent as a judge, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Stern, 57, would take home a...
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Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan is leaving NBC's America's Got Talent after six seasons to focus on his CNN show, Piers Morgan Tonight.
"I'm leaving America's Got Talent after 6 wonderful years. Turned out that juggling's harder than it looks, so I'm going to focus on CNN," Morgan tweeted late Wednesday. " Big thanks to NBC, Fremantle, and of course, my friend Simon Cowell, for giving me such a great opportunity. It's been a...
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Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian
It didn't take long before the news of Kim Kardashian's impending divorce led to a flurry of celebrities weighing in on Twitter. Some of our favorites:
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Ryan Seacrest
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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