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Elvis Costello enjoys TV role as carnival barker

Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. His latest project, the country- and folk-inflected Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane, arrived June 9 on Hear Music.

Rudolph the Reindeer outshines TV competition

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Shiny-nosed Rudolph proved the biggest draw on U.S. television Wednesday night as the 1964 animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer beat Grammy nominees Black Eyed Peas and Aretha Franklin at New York's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting.
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CBS wins November TV sweeps; Fox scores big gains

CBS claimed victory on Tuesday in the key November television sweeps period, but Fox said it was the only broadcast network to show year-on-year gains in both total viewers and the 18-49 year-old age group coveted by advertisers.
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TV guide for the Internet age launched

Clicker.com launched a TV Guide for Internet television on Thursday, designed to provide a new way to find everything from old Seinfeld episodes to cooking shows.
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Ian McKellen takes act to film, TV -- and gay rights

Venerable English stage actor Ian McKellen has played all the great parts from Hamlet to Richard III, but in the twilight of his career, he is finding new roles in mainstream film and TV -- and as a gay icon.
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Simon Cowell is top earning man on U.S. TV

Simon Cowell, the acerbic American Idol judge, creator of America's Got Talent an record producer, is the top earning man on prime-time U.S. television with an estimated haul of $75 million, Forbes.com said on Tuesday.
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A&E network unveils Jackson TV show

Cable television network A&E on Friday unveiled plans for a new reality TV show starring four brothers of late pop star Michael Jackson depicting them dealing with his death and rehearsing for an upcoming concert.
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Kirstie Alley takes weight-loss battle back to TV

Kirstie Alley is to parlay her lengthy weight-loss battle into a U.S. TV series for what the actress called in a Tuesday Twitter message a very funny docu about me losing weight, raising unpretentious kids, and biz.
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George Lopez to host TV talk show

Comedian George Lopez is about to enter a world in turmoil by competing for American TV viewers against the likes of Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien with his own nightly talk show.
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Corning profit beats Street, sees strong TV demand

Corning Inc said on Monday it expects consumer appetite for flat-screen televisions to be robust through 2010, fueling demand for its specialty glass, and hopes that market prices will mark only mild declines.
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Hip-hop band the Roots branch out on nightly TV

For the past seven months, Questlove has been on the run. The Roots drummer, whose driver's license reads Ahmir Thompson, wakes up every day between 6 and 7 a.m. to catch an 8 a.m. train from his hometown of Philadelphia and usually doesn't return home until 11 p.m.
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Slapstick TV comedy pioneer Soupy Sales dead at 83

Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit Free Press reported. He was 83.
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NBC Universal's Graboff says TV windows collapsing

Traditional television viewing patterns are collapsing and the industry needs to quickly figure out how to profit in a world where people can watch TV shows anytime, anywhere, NBC Universal's TV chief said.
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Buscemi, Tucci set up two TV projects

Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci and Wren Arthur, the trio behind Olive Prods., have set up their first TV projects: a drama at HBO starring Tucci and an animated comedy at TBS to be voiced by Tucci and Buscemi.
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LG Elec trumps forecasts on strong phones, TV sales

LG Electronics Inc's quarterly profit jumped nearly 50 percent thanks to strong sales of mobile phones and TVs, but the company is headed for a weaker fourth quarter on higher marketing costs and price competition.
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LG Elec Q3 trumps forecasts on strong phones, TV sales

LG Electronics Inc's quarterly profit jumped nearly 50 percent thanks to strong sales of mobile phones and TVs, but the company is headed for a weaker fourth quarter on higher marketing costs and price competition.
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Balloon Boy's dad planned hoax driven by ego and fame on TV, coworker says

Balloon Boy's father Richard Heene had planned the flying saucer controversy since early this year for publicity of a reality show featuring him as a passionate scientist carrying out various shocking experiments, Robert Thomas, a researcher close to Heene said, according to a story obtained by Gawker.com

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