Conan says sorry to Levi Johnston, brings William Shatner back
"Apparently the tweets that we read were counterfeit," Conan O'Brien said of the "shocking news" that Levi's "real" Twitter wasn't so real after all. "They were written by a clever impostor posing as the witty Levi Johnston. And the real Levi is very angry with us now," said Conan, who re-introduced Shatner reading Johnston's correct quotes. PLUS: Conan edges ahead of Letterman in important viewers.
Oprah hasn't decided her future, her production company insists
Rumors of her departure from broadcast TV are premature, says Harp Productions. "As she has previously stated, she'll be making an announcement before the end of the year." PLUS: Oprah yanks BeBe Winans from her show over domestic abuse charges.
GLAAD protests "South Park's" F-word
This week's attempt to redefine the word "fag" didn't sit well in the gay community.
MTV Europe Music Awards under fire for walling off Berllin Wall concert
Some Berliners found it ironic that their view of U2's concert celebrating the fall of the wall was blocked by yet another wall.
Jeff Probst: "Talk about a blindside. Wow"
Jeff says of this week's "Survivor": "Russell’s HUGE move to play the idol is yet one more pencil in his jar of 'this is how ya do it.'"
TLC to subpoena Jon Gosselin's girlfriend and Lindsay Lohan's dad
They'll be forced to testify in the breach of contract TLC filed against Gosselin.
The 7,000-pound bronze sculpture depicts Fred Rogers facing the Pittsburgh skyline while tying his sneakers, with its location just off the Fort Duquesne Bridge. "
According to Nikki Finke Oprah Winfrey's rumored departure to the Oprah Winfrey Network should soon become a reality. "I've learned that in coming days Winfrey and Discovery will issue a press release announcing OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011," says Finke. "And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated Chicago-based daytime talk show when her current deal runs out and moving it to OWN headquarters in Los Angeles probably as soon as mid-2011."
"This is your mother’s 'Sesame Street,'" says Alessandra Stanley, "only better dressed and gentrified: 'Sesame Street' by way of Park Slope. The opening is no longer a realistic rendition of an urban skyline but an animated, candy-colored chalk drawing of a preschool Arcadia, with flowers and butterflies and stars. The famous set, brownstones and garbage bins, has lost the messy graffiti and gritty smudges of city life over the years. Now there are green spaces, tofu and yoga."
