Television

NEW YORK (AP) — The overnight rating for the New York Giants' Super Bowl win over New England was less than 1 percent shy of the record tied last year.
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — The city of Frank Sinatra's birth has denied a request for a spinoff of MTV's "Jersey Shore" reality show to film in the city.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Jones are out at "The X Factor."
Lea Michele is moving from a locker to a much bigger closet.
REASON TO WATCH: Marg Helgenberger says goodbye.
Kiefer Sutherland returns to his home network, but this time he's playing the anti-Jack Bauer: a sensitive and compassionate, endlessly patient family man.
LONDON (AP) — You've read his leaks. Now watch his show.
MIAMI (AP) — An unlikely home improvement show hosted by 1990s rapper Vanilla Ice is back for a second season to remodel a South Florida home.
DON'T MISS
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News plans to air an interview with the second wife of Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on "Nightline" just two days before the GOP's South Carolina primary.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — It's been a decade since Texas native Kelly Clarkson was plucked from obscurity and turned into the nation's first American Idol.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The nation's newest Miss America is a 23-year-old Wisconsin brunette who had long conversations with her family mulling whether or not to make her father's jail time for mail fraud the heart of her campaign in the beauty pageant.
THE WINNERS
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association dared to let Ricky Gervais come back and host the Golden Globe Awards, a year after he insulted the organization and nearly everyone in the star-studded room with his lacerating wit.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The black-and-white silent film "The Artist" led the Golden Globes with three wins Sunday at a show that spread Hollywood's love around among a broad range of films, including best drama recipient "The Descendants" and its star, George Clooney.
LOS ANGELES – When Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais took sharp swipes at Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, Robert Downey, Jr. and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at last year’s ceremony, some criticized the comedian for going too far.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katy Perry is in the popular clique now.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A clean-cut Ashton Kutcher said Wednesday that he's interested in continuing with "Two and a Half Men" beyond this season — and CBS wants him, too.
By now, Mike Toomey has proved that you can make a career out of watching television.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The producers of "Desperate Housewives" say the series finale will leave a few loose ends hanging, but cautioned fans against awaiting a reunion movie.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Some Hollywood-style guerilla warfare has earned the maker of ABC's sitcom "Cougar Town" some notice, but didn't achieve his goal — at least not yet.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — ABC's entertainment chief says he just doesn't "get" complaints made by transgender people about the network's new sitcom.
There's no mistaking Disney's days at TV Press tour. The place is festooned with beefy, clean-cut guys, in suits and little wires curling from their ears into their jackets, stationed in hallways and doorways, watching carefully.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — CBS News is trying something new in the morning.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Long known for its Sunday night cartoons headlined by "The Simpsons," Fox is planning to offer new animated material late on Saturday nights and on an experimental new digital channel.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Both Fox and Ryan Seacrest say they want Seacrest to stay as host of "American Idol" after this year. Whether that will happen was unclear Sunday even as both sides promoted this month's launch of the 11th season of the country's most popular television show.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Olivia Stein, a 17-year-old student at California School for the Deaf in Fremont can probably count on one hand how many times she has seen someone like herself beaming from a television screen.
NEW YORK (AP) — Teen star Miranda Cosgrove says she doesn't usually get nervous about taping episodes of her Nickelodeon comedy, "iCarly," but that changed when first lady Michelle Obama taped an appearance on the show.
Here, in alphabetical order, are nine more examples of TV at its best in 2011.
NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, Dick Clark's New Year's Eve special was created to give young people an alternative to a seasonal institution, bandleader Guy Lombardo.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey earned the rare opportunity to convert her media charisma into a monogramed TV channel. Now she's the one tasked with rescuing OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a disappointing first year.