July 24, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Brad Garrett, Emmy-winning co-star of the hit sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" was to return to the set Wednesday after reportedly settling a salary dispute with CBS.

LOS ANGELES - Laughter and two co-stars were missing from the set of "Everybody Loves Raymond."

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch, who is serving more than four years in prison for failing to pay taxes on his $1 million prize, appealed his convictions Thursday.

DETROIT - General Motors Corp. has decided to end its sponsorship of CBS' hit series "Survivor," but the world's largest automaker said Wednesday that the decision had nothing to do with the reality show's controversial decision to divide its contestants in the upcoming season by race and ethnicity.

NEW YORK - "Survivor" may have a security problem. Before the first episode was even televised this season, more than 15 people from the Vancouver, British Columbia area placed bets with an offshore bookie on contestant Sandra Diaz-Twine.

DETROIT - CBS says it has a new sponsor to replace General Motors Corp.'s advertisements on the hit reality show "Survivor."

FLAGSTAFF — Arizona tribal members say they're shocked by a television sitcom that made fun of one of the most pervasive social ills on American Indian reservations — alcoholism.

PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Appalachian coal miners will go to New York to protest a CBS reality television series called ‘‘The Real Beverly Hillbillies’’ unless plans for the show are canceled.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Elizabeth Smart and her family have been all over television in the past week - a story that speaks as much to the rivalries and egos of media titans as to the family's own harrowing experience.

NEW YORK - Elizabeth Smart and her family have been all over television in the past week - a story that speaks as much to the rivalries and egos of media titans as to the family's own harrowing experience.

A sad spectre haunts Desert Rose Theatre’s winter play, “Joyful Noise,” though it’s probably not apparent to anyone making a first foray to the 55-seat strip mall playhouse in west Mesa.

In Michelle Ryan, NBC has found a potential breakout star for its new series “Bionic Woman.” The show also gets a great villainous turn from “Battlestar Galactica’s” Katee Sackhoff.

WASHINGTON - Major broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox - are showing less sexual content on television, particularly during the first two hours of prime time, a TV watchdog group said Tuesday.

PASADENA, Calif. -- In the land of perennial youth and movie star beauty, most centenarians just can't compete. That's why the Rose Parade is getting a major makeover - for the first time in 117 years.

February 15, 2005

NEW YORK - CBS, MTV, the NFL, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake all say they're sorry - but none of that is deterring the federal government from looking into the Super Bowl's too-revealing halftime show.

NEW YORK - Michael Jackson told CBS' "60 Minutes" that he still believes it's acceptable to sleep with children and that he would "slit my wrists" before he would hurt a child.

LOS ANGELES - The audience appetite for reality television could be tested by a planned cable channel that will offer a diet of all reality, all the time.

In the matter of NBA coaching vacancies, there are two ways of thinking: 1) If you’re a candidate for a job, you better be careful. If you sign on with a bad franchise, you’ll never get a fair chance to win, and your headcoaching career could be buried forever.

It’s hard enough for NFL teams to come up with a quarterback who can carry their playoff hopes — just ask the Arizona Cardinals.

It’s hard enough for NFL teams to come up with a quarterback who can carry their playoff hopes — just ask the Arizona Cardinals.

LOS ANGELES - Emmy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres and executive producer Ken Ehrlich might be the perfect team for Sunday's ceremony: They're both Emmy veterans who have paid serious dues.

You’ll need a library card and a pair of reading glasses, it seems, to get through this theatrical season.