AP - Barack Obama has packed his overseas trip with presidential images: a helicopter ride over Iraq with the U.S. military commander; a visit to a Holocaust memorial; a meeting at Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s palace.
Freshman dramas “Mad Men” and “Damages” made history as the first basic cable programs to gain best-series nods, Showtime and Michael C. Hall made a killing with their serial-killer series “Dexter” and Tina Fey soared with “30 Rock” to the…
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Reuters - Protesters gathered on Wednesday outside Fox News Channel to denounce what they claim is its racist campaign coverage, including a pundit who called Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama a terrorist.
Reuters - NBC and Fox News Channel sued video-sharing service Redlasso for copyright infringement on Wednesday, accusing the website of showing programs like “The Tonight Show” and “The Fox Report with Shepard Smith” without permission.
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AP - Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera “Search for Tomorrow,” has died. He was 89.
by: Fernwood Gold the 3rdBASHED: The Great American Bash from the original Gold home arena, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale Long Island New York, was an OK show, but had some interesting developments. In a very subtle fashion, the first couple of matches were the post-draft ECW clean up. Getting the US belt off Hardy means he’s now able to focus on becoming ECW champ and Miz/Morrison can now be split into singles stars and make a much stronger impression in ECW than they ever could as tag champs. Smart booking. I hope the new U.S. Champion, Shelton Benjamin has left midcard4life status behind, though hopefully they will book his reign stronger than they are booking C.M. Punk’s World Title reign? Great promos, decent matches, yet these inconclusive finishes are wack. Someone has to the be the sacrificial lamb to put this guy over. Maybe they are building it to some kind of 3 or 4 way at Summerslam where he emerges victorious, but they need to put him in the ring with someone who can bring the best out of Punk. However, to Batista’s credit, he turned it up this week.
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AP - Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 14-20. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
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AP - Tom Cavanagh is the kind of guy who holds doors open for strangers.
E! Online - Get ready for an extra two hours of The Hills—even before the fourth season premieres next month.