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  • Rowland, Rubio joining Cowell's show

    Updated: 5 hr ago

    NEW YORK (AP) — Simon Cowell has added former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and Latin artist Paulina Rubio to the cast of his competition show "The X Factor." Rowland and Rubio will be on the show when it starts its third season on Fox this fall. They replace Britney Spears and record...

  • CBS pulls comedy season-ender because of tornado

    Updated: 6 hr ago

    NEW YORK (AP) — CBS has taken the scheduled season-ending episode of "Mike & Molly" off the air because its plot line revolved around a tornado threatening the couple. The network said it replaced the comedy with a rerun on Monday out of sensitivity to victims of the deadly tornado in...

  • NBC hires news division chief from Britain

    Updated: 13 hr ago

    NEW YORK (AP) — NBC went out of the company and out of the country to find a president for its news division, on Monday naming the first woman to hold the top job. Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News in Britain, replaces Steve Capus, who resigned earlier this year, and will begin her...

  • Old rules don't mean much to broadcasters

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) — The most striking thing about the broadcast TV networks announcing their new fall schedules this past week was how little that actually meant. Television schedules seem more like sketches these days. Even the networks admit their prime-time plans for September will be...

  • 'American Idol' finale draws record low ratings

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) — Ratings for the "American Idol" finale plunged to a record low for the 12-year-old show. According to Nielsen Co. figures Friday, Candice Glover's victory over Kree Harrison was watched by 14.3 million viewers. That's a 33 percent drop from the year before, when 21.5 million...

  • 'Scandal' cast performs finale live for Academy

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forget the DVR. Not this time. Not after this long of a wait. Millions of fans actually watched the season-two finale of the ABC drama "Scandal" the old-fashioned way: on a TV screen, as it was fed from the network to their local affiliates. But a crowd of approximately...

  • Paper wrap: 'The Office' ends its 8-year run

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) — That's a wrap! Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. lives on, but "The Office" has closed shop. The NBC workplace comedy, set at the fictional company's Scranton, Pa., branch, aired its finale Thursday to end an eight-year run. As expected, office manager Dwight wed tempestuous...

  • 'Psych' stars Roday and Hill tease episode remake

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) — Two reasons for the popularity of the USA series "Psych" are its inside jokes and theme storylines, like the recent 100th episode inspired by the movie "Clue" that had multiple endings. At the network's annual upfront presentation for advertisers Thursday, James Roday said for...

  • 'The Office': shutting down on NBC after 8 years

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) — As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it. I'm talking, of course, about the BBC-produced, British version of "The Office," starring a previously unknown scamp named Ricky Gervais, who also served...

  • 'The Office': Shutting down on NBC after 8 years

    FRAZIER MOORE

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) -- As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it. I'm talking, of course, about the BBC-produced, British version of "The Office," starring a previously unknown scamp named Ricky Gervais, who also served...