Jon Gosselin despises Kate, claims she was verbally abusive
"I was beaten down," he says in an ABC News interview of Kate, whom he can't sit next to while filming "Jon & Kate" because "I can't sit on someone right now that I despise." "She would hold my kids over my head. I would want to spend time with my mom, and she would say, 'Don't spend time with your mom, spend time with your kids.' Why can't I spend time with my mom and my kids?"
Fox confirms it won't air Obama's Wednesday speech
The network doesn't want to disrupt the season debuts of "SYTYCD" and "Glee."
Oprah: Whintey Houston was "the best interview I've ever done"
"I think it’s the best interview I’ve ever done," Oprah says of her two-day interview airing next week. "But I guess you’re supposed to let other people say that about yourself. I can’t think of a moment, ever, when I had a stronger connection to the person I was interviewing." PLUS: Oprahpalooza takes over Chicago and can Oprah save music?
Tyra Banks to launch an online magazine — "TYRA"
"TYRA: Beauty Inside and Out" will focus on beauty, fashion and healthy living.
Denis Leary's firefighter charity is among the worst celebrity nonprofits
The Leary Firefighters Foundation received one star for its poor financial performance in 2007.
Larry David is only watching "Gossip Girl" these days
Asked if he watches TV, David replies: "Not really. I find it very hard to sit down and devote an hour to television. And I don't have any TV-alone time when I can watch shows. I have two teenaged daughters, so sometimes I'll watch shows to spend time with them. I watch 'Gossip Girl' with my teenagers."
Dallas Cowboys keep Spike TV reality star
Jesse Holley, winner of Michael Irvin's reality show "Fourth and Long," has earned a spot on the Cowboys' practice squad.
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Marc Cherry to spin off "Desperate Housewives" in Sprint commercials
“They’re kind of like the old Taster’s Choice commercials, but we added a lot of wicked dark humor, murder and adultery and betrayal,” Cherry says of the ads, which will begin running during the season premiere to stop viewers from hitting the fast-forward button. PLUS: "Housewives" dress in vintage gowns.
ESPN is hungry for the Olympics
"There's no question the Olympics would continue the process of establishing ESPN as the home of championship sports and great sports," one ESPN exec says of landing the Olympic games for 2014 and 2016.
Obama tells kids: Don't count on becoming a reality star
"I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work," he says in his address to all returning students.
Has "House" ruined healthcare?
A new Kaiser report faults the Fox show for "pushing medical practice to the extreme."
Watch Bob Barker take on WWE "Raw"
The former "Price is Right" host got physical last night. (Watch Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4)
Playboy model with GG breasts wins "Big Brother" UK — after "shocking" weight gain
Check out 20-year-old Sophie Reade's transformation from before she entered, during her stay in the house and after she won last Friday.
Claim: Letterman is the last grown-up on network TV
And growing up is the reason why David Letterman has triumphed over Jay Leno, according to Peter W. Kaplan. "Somehow," he says, "without anyone looking, David Letterman has superseded the usual TV categories of comic, or talk-show host, or broadcaster. He paces the stage at night worrying about the Afghan-election recount and generally free-associating about the flies and vultures flapping around in his head. His nightly broadcast from Broadway has become a weird and great American entity unto itself, a blurred throwback, an amalgam of the tradition he came from: Johnny Carson, Edward Murrow, Jack Paar. And the most middle-American of talk-show hosts has become the most New York–centric."
Stand-up comic dying of cancer gets his wish — a performance on Letterman
Auburn University's "Dave Letterman Physics" course has nothing to do with Letterman
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"Sons of Anarchy" enters Season 2 at a "Shield"/"Sopranos" level of quality
As Alan Sepinwall explains, "Entering season two, the 'Hamlet' allusions have more or less gone away and 'Sons of Anarchy' is more purely pulp fiction than it was at this time last year. But if (creator Kurt) Sutter has lowered his sights a bit, he's now unerringly hitting the target. Because 'Sons' is about a criminal gang, and because its creator cut his teeth writing about Vic Mackey, comparisons to 'The Sopranos' and 'The Shield' were inevitable. And where last year those comparisons weren't flattering, now 'Sons' is starting to hold its own against its spiritual ancestors."
A middling "Sons" becomes engrossing in Season 2
Season 2 is newbie-friendly // Hunnan lacks the acting chops of Michael Chiklis
How does Katey Sagal's husband get her to degrading scenes? // Hunnan sees parallels
Q&A with Kurt Sutter: Why Charming is like Mayberry
Soulless new "Melrose Place" doesn't match up to the original
Too much has changed, says Mary McNamara of the "Melrose" revamp. "The young and the soulless dominate television these days, with the CW's own 'Gossip Girl' and MTV's 'The Hills.' Indeed, creators Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin have filled the now iconic courtyard apartments with characters that seem to have been plucked from other shows, 'Grey's Anatomy' perhaps or 'Chuck,' or from failed sitcoms like 'Notes From the Underbelly.'"
"Melrose Place" is nothing without Heather Locklear (or Alyssa Milano)
Old "Melrose" vs. New "Melrose" // CW's "Melrose" is better // Even acting is better
Laura Leighton didn't hesitate when contacted // Katie Cassidy: The Breakout star?
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