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Celebrity Apprentice Winner Joan Rivers on Annie Duke's Harsh Words

• May 11, 2009 04:59 PM ET
• by Gina DiNunno
• 61 Comments

Joan Rivers, Donald Trump

Newly "hired" Joan Rivers gave her competitor Annie Duke a big hug after winning the final face-off on Celebrity Apprentice — but that doesn't mean the two will be friendly any time soon.

"We're not going to be BFFs," Rivers told TVGuide.com about her future interactions with the famous poker player. "It's a shame, because I think she's a brilliant poker player, but she plays life like poker and I don't. I play life like ... read more

Ratings: Apprentice Finale Trumps The Unit and Brothers & Sisters

• May 11, 2009 03:08 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 12 Comments

Joan Rivers with Apprentice boss Donald Trump

Sunday's ratings snippets:

8 pm/ET
An audience of 10.43 million total viewers looked on as The Amazing Race crossed its latest finish line. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition followed with 8.2 mil (slipping 11 percent week-to-week).

The three(!)-hour Celebrity Apprentice finale averaged 8.73 mil (on par with last week) but surged in the 10 o'clock hour to... well, you'll see what it accomplished a few seconds later in this story.

9 pm
Desperate Housewives' penultimate episode of the season drew 12.13 mil, plunging 10 percent from last week. In second, Cold Case concluded its sixth cycle before an audience of 11.78 mil, dipping 680K.

10 pm
The final hour of the Apprentice finale played to 10.24 million viewers, besting the season enders for both The Unit (9.66 mil, down 300K) and Brothers & Sisters (8.84 mil, down 270K). That hissing sound you hear is the Donald's ego re-inflating.

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Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, May 10, 2009

• May 10, 2009 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 1 Comment

Celebrity Apprentice

Amazing Race 14
8 pm/ET CBS
Former NFL cheerleaders Jaime and Cara could become the first all-female team to win the $1 million top prize if they can overcome their third-place start tonight and their perpetual problems with taxis. Front-running Tammy and Victor look to be the pair to beat, but don't count out mom-and-son duo Margie and Luke. It promises to be a nerve-racking finish, with all three teams working on the final task at the same time.
Read on for previews of Celebrity Apprentice, Masterpiece Mystery!, Brothers & Sisters and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. read more

VIDEO: Annie Duke Speaks Out on Joan Rivers' "Hitler" Comment

• May 6, 2009 03:44 PM ET
• by Gina DiNunno
• 32 Comments

It's been a fiery season of Celebrity Apprentice — especially between finalists Joan Rivers and Annie Duke.

The poker champ stopped by TV Guide Network's TV Watercooler to set the record straight about their feud and about Rivers' comment that Duke is "worse than Hitler." She also opened up about whether the fighting on the show has been real and how she feels about Melissa Rivers' critical Twitter posts about her.

Plus: Find out what special gift Duke received that helps channel her anger toward Joan and Melissa Rivers.

Watch the video after the jump.

Celebrity Apprentice Renewed for Another Season

• Apr 30, 2009 03:57 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant
• 20 Comments

Donald Trump

NBC isn't saying "you're fired" to Donald Trump just yet.

The Peacock has renewed The Donald's Celebrity Apprentice for another season to air in spring 2010. This will mark the show's ninth cycle, the first six of which were not celebrity-based.

This season ... read more

Tonight's TV Hot List for Sunday, April 5, 2009

• Apr 5, 2009 11:17 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 1 Comment

The Tudors

The Tudors
9 pm/ET Showtime
It's the return of the king, as this royal melodrama, one of Showtime's crowning achievements, begins a third season. Serial bride-taker (and killer) Henry VIII (his number of succession, not the total of women he married), is betrothed for the third time. Gentle, genteel and kindly noblewoman Jane Seymour (Annabelle Wallis) is his choice, and the pressure mounts on her to provide him with a male heir, while Henry deals with a northern uprising over his anti-Catholic Reformation.

Read on for previews of Academy of Country Music Awards, In Treatment, Celebrity Apprentice, MLB Baseball and Explorer. read more

Celebrity Apprentice Castoff: Melissa Rivers Is "Obnoxious"

• Mar 23, 2009 08:46 PM ET
• by Gina DiNunno
• 7 Comments

Claudia Jordan

The promos for Week 4 of Celebrity Apprentice touted the Dennis Rodman meltdown, but that was just the tip of the drama-berg. TVGuide.com spoke to Deal or No Deal model Claudia Jordan, the latest casualty of The Donald, to get the dirt on her battle royale with Melissa Rivers and and her mouthy mommy.

Apprentice Castoff Scott Hamilton: I'm "Absolutely Grateful" for the Experience

• Mar 9, 2009 10:24 PM ET
• by Robyn Ross
• 5 Comments

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton has no regrets about participating in NBC's Celebrity Apprentice (Sundays, 9pm/ET). Although his elimination came early, in week two, Hamilton called it a life experience he's "absolutely grateful for." TVGuide.com checked in with the Olympic gold medalist to find out how it was to work with some interesting personalities, who should've been fired, and why he decided to take on Trump's tasks on television.

TVGuide.com: What happened?

Scott Hamilton: My strategy was never to be project manager, especially on a marketing task, so early in the game. When your name comes up from your team and they're looking at you, if you say no, there's blood in the water. They're going to smell it and jump all over you. I felt somewhat trapped, so I did it and I thought I'd make the most of it, and I tried to pull these guys together as a team. I did the best that I could, I made the error that cost our team the win, but when I look back on everything, we were really close.

Ratings: Tom Selleck's Jesse Stone Ices the Competition

• Mar 2, 2009 12:37 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 10 Comments

Tom Selleck with Leslie Hope, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

Sunday's ratings summary:

7 pm/ET
60 Minutes topped the hour with 14.12 million total viewers, besting the conclusion of Fox's NASCAR coverage (10.52 mil, No. 1 in demos). SNL: The Best of Tracy Morgan placed fourth (behind ABC's videos show), with three mil.

8 pm
Extreme Makeover (10.96 million viewers) just barely edged out The Amazing Race (10.75 mil). SNL: The Best of Will Ferrell improved on Tracy's highlights reel, delivering 5.63 mil.

9 pm
In the three-way competition between two-hour "events," CBS' Jesse Stone: Thin Ice placed first - and was the night's most watched program - with 15.13 million viewers. That marks a 16 percent increase over the mystery series' previous installment. Brothers & Sisters (ahem) "came to life" with nearly 12 million viewers, a 27 percent surge over its last outing. 

The second cycle of Celebrity Apprentice premiered to 8.8 mil, an 18 percent plunge from the first season's opener. Maybe next time, the Donald should promise a "shocking death"?

Tonight's TV Hot List for Sunday, March 1, 2009

• Mar 1, 2009 04:01 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 1 Comment

Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters

Celebrity Apprentice
9 pm/ET NBC
Sixteen new celebrities get down to business in the eighth season of Donald Trump's competition series. Among the stars squaring off in rung-climbing business battles: singers Clint Black, Brian McKnight and Tionne Watkins; comics Andrew Dice Clay, Tom Green and Joan Rivers; sports figures Dennis Rodman, Herschel Walker and Scott Hamilton; and actress-models Claudia Jordan and Brande Roderick. The season lifts off with the celebs baking and selling cupcakes, but it won't be a piece of cake: The not-so-sweet challenge is marked by culinary slipups and a surprise taste test.

Read on for previews of Amazing Race 14, Brothers & Sisters, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice and Running in Heels. read more