entertainment - "television"

Front Page: Networks converge on DMC -- Don't tell the television news networks that contemporary political conventions are tightly scripted events generating little if any actual news.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Charlie Sheen, star of hit U.S. television sitcom 'Two and a Half Men,' revealed on Monday that he and his wife Brooke Mueller are expecting their first child together.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Top-rated television talent show 'American Idol' has added songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi as a fourth judge, joining Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, the Fox network said on Monday.

Deadliest Catch established one of the highest-brow sub-genres of reality television, those shows that follow men and women who work on extremely difficult jobs, and that sub-genre is now reaching a level of saturation, with equally compelling knock-offs and others that aren't so great. Thus, reality TV is due for the next stage in the tough jobs sub-genre, and NBC delivers it tonight at 9 p.m. ET with America's Toughest Jobs. It'll be rebroadcast Wednesdays at 9 and 1 a.m. on CNBC.Producer Thom Beers pioneered the format, so it makes sense that he'd take it to the next level, which involves--what else?--competition and elimination. On each hour-long show, a group of 13 people work, to borrow from the title, a tough job, like bull fighting, driving monster trucks, or logging. They work alongside and/or for the people who do the job for a living, and at the end of every episode, the cast member who performs the worst--or, in the show's terminology, isn't 'tough enough'--is eliminated.

New york (AP) -- Need proof the television ratings system is dead, a victim of the TiVo, the ubiquitous satellite dish and schizophrenic viewing habits? Take a look at what's happening with 'Battlestar Galactica.'...

The extent to which the Internet served as a supplement to television was unprecedented, and there were two clear winners: NBC's Web site and Yahoo's Olympics section.

LOS ANGELES/BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC Universal smashed yet another historic ratings benchmark: The Beijing Olympics is the most-watched U.S. television event of all time.

If Monday's Democratic convention was Sen. Ted Kennedy's last major speech in front of a television camera, it will be said that in no sense did he go gently into that good night.