Kat Dennings, Simon Cowell
The 2011-2012 TV season ended with a whimper, as all five broadcast networks posted year-to-year drops in viewership during May sweeps. But the season as a whole wasn't too bad: Sure, some big swings (Pan Am, Terra Nova) missed, but a solid 15 freshman shows (out of 45) were renewed. Here's a roundup of this year's winners and losers.
Winners
Funny girls
CBS' 2 Broke Girls was the year's highest-rated new comedy, averaging a strong 5.6 million viewers with adults 18-49. The show has already been upgraded to a plum 9pm time slot for fall. "That shows enormous...
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Steve Jobs, Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher plays a wealthy techie on the small screen, and now he's about to play one of the most famous techies on the big screen as well.
The Two and a Half Men star will play the late Steve Jobs in the indie film Jobs, Variety reports.
Report: Kutcher, Cryer offered two more years on Men ... but no raise!
Jobs will follow the Apple co-founder from...
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Patton Oswalt
Two and a Half Men has enlisted Patton Oswalt to play Walden's ex-business partner, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Oswalt will play a character described as...
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Barbara Walters
Barbara's picked her fair share of questionable folks (Kate Gosselin, Monica Lewinsky, Geri Halliwell?!), but when the list was announced for this year's 10 Most Fascinating People, we wondered if Walters, at the ripe old age of 82, had officially jumped the shark.
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Steve Jobs
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer, the company said Wednesday. He was 56 years old.
"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve...
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, but he'll still be around, the company announced Wednesday.
Jobs, who will act as the board chairman, recommended that...
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Tina Fey
On Thursday's season finale of 30 Rock, Liz Lemon revealed what she thinks is a dream summer vacation: 12 weeks of community service on a chain gang. She gets to be outside, wear comfortable clothes, garden, and learn Spanish! But we know that Tina Fey has higher standards. To that end, we've come up with a handy list of activities for her to do on her hiatus (besides having her second child):
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