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  • Ratings for new “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell are still underwater, but are actually an improvement over her bumpy start when she took over this summer.

    CBS' Norah O'Donnell still No. 3, but her ratings slide has slowed

    Ratings for the new “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell are still underwater, but they may have finally hit bottom. That’s the hope among network insiders, as ratings for O’Donnell’s...
  • Disney+ is already losing some of its movies

    Some beloved films have vanished from Disney’s new streaming service less than two months after its launch. The movies were pulled despite Disney+ previously telling news outlets that the service...
  • Chuck Todd's 'Meet the Press Daily' facing axe to make room for Nicolle Wallace

    Todd's “Meet the Press Daily” is struggling in its timeslot between two more popular and opinionated shows.
  • natioanal enquirer

    Despite agreement, National Enquirer still yet to be sold by American Media

    American Media and its 80 percent majority owner Chatham Asset Management have still not sold the beleaguered National Enquirer some nine months after they said they had an agreement to...
  • Sonny Mehta

    Sonny Mehta passing leaves succession question at Alfred A. Knopf

    The passing on Monday of Sonny Mehta, head of the Alfred A. Knopf imprint of Penguin Random House, has set off an industry guessing game on who will succeed the...
  • Ex-HBO executive signs Apple TV+ deal

    Former HBO boss Richard Plepler has inked a five-year deal with Apple’s new video-streaming service. Under the five-year pact, Plepler — who was credited for developing such hits as “The...
  • Stephanie Ruhle lands big NBC business role

    Stephanie Ruhle has been promoted to senior business correspondent for NBC News and will appear across flagship shows including "Today" and "NBC Nightly News."
  • Fifty Shades of Grey

    'Fifty Shades of Grey' was the dominant book of the decade

    Sex, and apparently movies, sell. The top 10 best-selling novels of the past decade got a boost in sales when they were adapted into blockbuster films. “Fifty Shades of Grey”...
  • Former Gen. Wesley Clark tosses his cell phone after it starts rining during a live interview on CNN.

    Wesley Clark flings ringing cellphone during live CNN interview

    Former US Army Gen. Wesley Clark had no patience with his ringing cellphone during a live TV interview on Iraq Wednesday — so he flung the offending device across the...
  • Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

    Alex Jones to pay $100K in Sandy Hook case for 'defamatory lies'

    Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $100,000 in legal costs and fees to the father of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. Texas District Judge Scott...