Estelle Getty remembered as funny, feisty, frugal
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Estelle Getty always liked a bargain.
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand.
The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif. - A Temecula, Calif., group has launched a Muslim version of YouTube.
Approval of a merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies was imminent Thursday after the pair agreed to pay $19.7 million to settle charges they violated federal rules.
Wanted: Singles willing to wed a total stranger and have first year of marriage filmed and dissected by millions of television viewers.
Lucy Liu is set to embrace her inner warrior.
Pamela Anderson is shacking up with Tommy Lee again - but not like that.
Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," has died. He was 89.
Richard Roeper, fresh off announcing that he was leaving the balcony of "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper," may have put it best.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 14-20. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
The Beijing Olympics may not look much different from previous games on TV.
Television critics come to L.A. every summer to get acquainted with the stars and staff of the new fall shows. This year, though, with the TV industry still playing catch-up after the writers' strike, we spent a lot of summer press tour being reacquainted with old favorites.
"Gossip Girl" will get people talking. At least, that seems likely as the CW network brings to a boil its new campaign for the sexy prep-school soap.
Ted Danson is relishing his first Emmy nomination since "Cheers."
The last baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium and the most-watched midsummer classic since 2002 - at least through the first nine innings - helped Fox to a TV ratings victory.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
No time to watch TV this week. (Sacrilege!) I was too busy eating, sleeping and breathing TV at the annual gathering of writers, producers, network executives and stars in Beverly Hills. In the interest of space, I've compiled a list of my top seven - yes, seven - highlights of the week:
Over the years, TV's best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics - and now it's Lyons and Mankiewicz.
When Dick Ebersol said "I have an idea" after the Athens Games, what his NBC Olympic team actually heard was, "How are we going to make this happen?" Because you do not tell a visionary in Olympic TV "no."
When does a weird, way-out-there show like "Lost" influence a soapy suburban serial like "Desperate Housewives"? When the creator of the soapy show is desperately looking for something to shake things up.
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