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I imagine it played out like this: Joseph Gordon-Levitt was at home last week, trying to mentally prepare for his first go as Saturday Night Live host by watching January Jones .

THE MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE - It's not really Thanksgiving until giagantic floating balloons with big smiley faces invade our TV screens in the early morning hours.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer boasted of Democrats' unity in pushing their health care reform package over a major procedural hurdle in the Senate Saturday night, saying on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that his party showed "real momentum." "Last night was a very good night for us," Schumer told CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob ...

Janet Jackson kicked off the American Music Awards with a medley of some of her biggest hits, but it was her late brother Michael who was poised to be one of the night's big winners, up for five American Music Awards, including entertainer of the year.

For all intents and purposes, Judd Apatow is in the DVD business just as much as he's in the movie business.

Will it be Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz? Maybe none of the above. The announced shutdown of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in two years creates room for a new queen of daytime television.

Jennifer Lopez plans to include fireworks and an on-stage costume change in her performance at the American Music Awards.

Singer Carrie Underwood arrives at the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year ceremony Saturday night Nov.

British TV personality David Frost is being honoured at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews with former President Richard Nixon and other newsmakers.

Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 21, 1934, the Cole Porter musical ''Anything Goes,'' starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened on Broadway.

Courteney Cox has been doing a bang-up job on her show Cougar Town from what I've heard, but today the news was released that the former Friends star needs to take a break from filming to tend to some private business.

The latest reports allege TV star Wilds is the new object of her affections - but Rihanna barely knows him.

You might say our national nightmare is over. Or is it just a TV series? In any case, TLC's reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8'' will end its spectacular but stormy run Monday at 9 p.m. During this final hour, Jon and Kate Gosselin, the estranged parents of young twins and sextuplets, will venture on separate outings with the kids.

The woman who bore twin girls for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick said Thursday that she was living in a West Virginia motel around the time a police chief is accused of breaking into her eastern Ohio home.

A General Sessions Court judge has dismissed assault and harassment charges against country music singer John Rich .

Taylor Swift wants justice after a sting operation in Idaho revealed that a little sports bar was totally cheating her out of a few dollars a month.

One of Miley Cyrus' tour buses overturned early Friday, but the 'Hannah Montana' star wasn't on the vehicle at the time.

Jennifer Lopez plans to include fireworks and an on-stage costume change in her performance at the American Music Awards.

ABC says the final season of "Lost" will begin in February with a night devoted to the drama.

Doctor Who, Strictly Come Dancing and Casualty are due to be part of the spectacular party for BBC Children in Need, hosted by Sir Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon.