Neither Donald Trump’s high-profile feud with Rosie O’Donnell nor his West Coast relocation strategy is doing much to help shore up The Apprentice’s sagging ratings. Sunday’s sixth season premiere attracted an audience of 9.1 million, down 600,000 from the fifth-season premiere and marking the smallest audience ever for an Apprentice debut. Could TV viewers be tired of Comb-over guy saying, “you’re fired?”
“It’s the way I look. He can’t resist. I love when people say you’re fat like you don’t know.” Rosie O’Donnell said on Monday’s View, expressing her belief that Donald Trump is “obsessed” with her. Yeah, Comb-over guy loves her “fat ass.”
Sirius Satellite Radio rewarded Howard Stern with $82.9 million in stock, based on the increase in subscriptions driven by the shock jock in his first year with the company. In fact, Stern might just be the “King of All Media” after all.
50 Cent released a line of condoms and stating he plans to donate a portion of the proceeds to raise HIV awareness, the New York Post reports. Can’t he think of anything else to market? It’s tasteless sexpliotatioin.
After 18 seasons, the Real World is finally going under. Down under, that is. The 19th installment of MTV’s long-running reality series will be set in Sydney, Australia, with filming beginning next month, the network and Bunim-Murray Productions announced Tuesday. The original reality show still fascinates viewers.
A Georgia man who is accused of trying to extort $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey waived his preliminary hearing Monday, meaning the case will likely go before a grand jury to determine whether there is enough evidence to warrant a trial. Keifer Bonvillain was collared by the FBI in December after he allegedly threatened to release recorded phone conversations, which he said would be damaging to the Queen of Daytime, unless she bowed to his cash demands.
Paris Hilton was arraigned Tuesday on drunken driving charges stemming from her arrest in September. The heiress is not required to make an appearance at the hearing, which has already been pushed back twice. Hey, that’s why she has expensive mouthpieces on retainer. They keep poor little rich girl out of the slammer.
The Online Film Critics Society named United 93 the Best Picture of 2006 and Martin Scorsese Best Director for The Departed. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Queen and Forest Whitaker took Best Actor for The Last King of Scotland. It’s an omen of awards shows to come.
Scooby-Doo creator Iwao Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81. Over his six-decade career, the cartoonist also assisted in designs for classic animated films and TV shows including Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp and The Flintstones.
Van Halen, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes, and Patti Smith were tapped for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Mar. 12. Rock on!
Three-judge appellate panel upheld a Los Angeles Superior Court decision to dismiss Robert Wagner’s lawsuit against Sony Pictures Entertainment. The actor sued in 2003, claiming he was entitled to half the profits from the Charlie’s Angels films based on a decades-old contract he and late wife Natalie Wood had with Spelling-Goldberg Productions. The lower court ruled in 2005 that Wagner and his children’s trusts were not contractually entitled to film profits.
Ugly Betty was sitting pretty in the U.K., with 4.5 million viewers tuning into Channel 4 for the Jan. 5th premiere, the biggest audience for a U.S. comedy series launch on the network in 10 years. Yeah, it’s a jolly good show!
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