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Fran Drescher, left, and Sharon Osbourne
(photo: AP / Chris Pizzello, file)
'The Nanny' Star Recast As Diplomat, Politico, and TV Talk Host?
ABC News
By DEVIN DWYER | Feb. 8, 2010 | She's known worldwide for her nasal voice, New York accent, and starring role in the sitcom "The Nanny," but now actress has recast herself as a high-profile, fierce political candidate and potential TV talk show host. The actress and cancer survivor puts her celebrit...
A Gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats. Most are primarily diurnal [1] (though some, including the common household pet, do exhibit crepuscular behavior), and almost all are omnivorous.
(photo: Public Domain / Roo72)
Britain's ITV Fined Over Killing a Rat on TV Show
ABC News
February 8, 2010 | SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British broadcaster ITV pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was fined by an Australian court on Monday after a rat was killed and eaten on the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here." | Italian chef Gino D'Acampo and British actor ...
Super Bowl is most watched TV show ever
Ohio
| NEW YORK: The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of M-A-S-H to become the most-watched program in television history. | The Nielsen Co. estimated Monday that 106.5 million people watched the New Orlea...
Super Bowl most-watched TV show ever
Contra Costa Times
NEW YORK — The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of "M-A-S-H" to become the most-watched program in television history. | ...
Super Bowl the most-viewed TV show in U.S. history
Tulsa World
Sunday's Super Bowl win by the New Orleans Saints surpassed the 1983 finale of "M-A-S-H" as the most-watched TV program in U.S. history, and it produced the highest Super Bowl rating in Tulsa. | The Nielsen Co. estimated Monday that 106.5 million peo...
Super Bowl Is The Most-Watched TV Show Ever
MTV
| For three decades, the final episode of "M*A*S*H" has stood as the unreachable height of television broadcasting, combining the end of a cultural phenomenon with the end of a three-network era to garner 106 million viewers. Now, the seemingly impos...
Flat Screen Television, entertainment and electronics.
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Corning expects high demand for TV glass
LA Daily News
| By Ben Dobbin | Associated PressUpdated: 02/05/2010 08:46:39 AM PST | ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Corning said Friday that robust sales of flat-screen televisions, computers and...
Die Schauspielerin Demi Moore, erscheint mit Ehemann Ashton Kutcher am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009
AP / Hermann J. Knippertz
TV This Weekend - Feb. 5, 2010
Newsvine
Tonight on Caprica Joseph seeks a second visit with his daughter's avatar. Saturday night Ashton Kutcher hosts and Them Crooked Vultures performs on Saturday Night Live. Sunday nig...
Billie Piper
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Too rude for TV? Billie Piper bleats like a sheep for perverted client in Belle ...
The Daily Mail
| As high-class prostitute Belle De Jour in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Billie Piper has to fulfil a series of bizarre fantasies for her paying clients. | But in last night's epis...
Angie Everhart appears pregnant in TV ad
m&c
| Angie Everhart has showed off her baby bump in a new ad campaign for Palmer's Cocoa Butter. | Celebrities found hanging around the front row for the Richie Rich Fall/Winter 2009 Collection entitled 'Blondes Have More Fun!' on Day 6 of the New Y...
Miss Piggy dreams of date with Taye Diggs in new Disney TV advert
m&c
| Miss Piggy meets her dream man in actor Taye Diggs in a new Disney TV advert. | Taye Diggs at the Grand Opening of SLS Hotel At Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California. - Russ Einhorn / Splash News | In the 30-second advert, Miss Piggy dreams of goi...
Dr. Oz too 'far out' say detractors, yet TV show continues to perform well
m&c
| The afternoon syndicated chat show scene has been shaken up by a Turkish-American Harvard grad who combines Western medicine with ideas and theory from the East, and that fact has many of Dr. Mehmet Oz's peers crying foul over his message. | The af...
Media
Australia's Brett Lee celebrates after taking the wicket of England's Mal Loye, lbw for no score, in the first final of their one day international cricket tri-series in Melbourne
(photo: AP / Rick Rycroft)
Australia is not a racist country, Brett Lee tells Indian media
DNA India
| Though the Indian media has gone to town describing Australia as a country where racism, especially against the Asian minority thrives, the continent’s pin-up boy-Brett Lee-has taken the initiative in saying this is not the case. | Lee is virtually playing the ambassador's role for Australia. He returned from the subcontinent last week ...
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6 month old kitten "Matata" enjoying the "Fat cat life"
(photo: Public Domain / Own work)
Companies with flashy advertising viewed negatively
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | Companies overdoing flashy advertising were placed in the same category as "fat cat" politicians in a new market research report published on Monday. | Consumers are fed up with both categories, the report's compilers warned and, instead of flash and bling, want better value for money, improved quality and an assuranc...



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