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Are the late-night talk show wars really part of a secret plan by NBC to throw Fox into turmoil? Because if deposed "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien ends up on Fox, it could affect network relations with its affiliate stations just as it did at NBC.

They've recorded with Peter Gabriel, and sang reggae with Toots Hibbert. Prince has joined them on stage.

Soon-to-be-former host of "The Tonight Show'' Conan O'Brien never should have left "Late Night With Conan O'Brien'' in the first place, because "The Tonight Show'' that Conan grew up wanting to host is "just this old [expletive] thing,'' says a comic who used to be one of Conan's writers.

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"American Idol" is still primetime's 800-pound gorilla. About 30 million viewers tuned in Tuesday night for the kickoff of the reality series' ninth season, its final go-round with judge Simon Cowell.

For anyone old enough to have come into pop cultural consciousness in the mid-'80s, Pee-wee Herman casts a long shadow -- albeit, an almost transcendently nerdy shadow, one most often recalled dancing atop a bar to the Champs' jaunty instrumental "Tequila" in his 1985 breakthrough movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure." The impish man-child with an ...

A little more of Nick Jonas's new side project music was revealed last night on "Late Night With David Letterman," when the youngest Jonas Brother started a wave of television appearances to promote his new disc.

Faced with the failure of the biggest recent gamble in television, NBC is shuffling its late-night deck one more time.

Michael Symon, shown here on an "Iron Chef" appearance, will cook tonight on "Late Night with David Letterman." Apparently somebody at Worldwide Pants got a kick out of Michael Symon.

NBCU employees looking to impress their new head honchos at Comcast may want to check out this Late Night With David Letterman clip from 1986, after General Electric acquired NBC from the organization's longtime parent, RCA.

Keynote speakers including New York Times columnist Gail Collins, "Late Night With David Letterman" writer Bill Scheft, PBS humorist Loretta LaRoche, best-selling author W. Bruce Cameron and Fox TV co-anchor Steve Doocy have been announced for the 2010 Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop at the University of Dayton.

Chris Elliott is quite possibly the most famous person few people have heard of.

In conversation and in print, Andrew Pessin is as witty as he is approachably profound.

For most people, being a part of one of the most anticipated TV seasons in recent memory would be more than enough.

It Ain't Me. Babe. Musician-band leader Paul Shaffer answered almost all of my questions during a recent hour-long interview to promote his memoir "We'll Be Here For The Rest of Our Lives " [Flying Dolphin/Doubleday, $26] with one exception.

Nell Scovell, who worked as a writer on NBC's Late Night With David Letterman for less than a year in the early 1990s, said that he paid extra attention to her and was rumoured to be involved in sexual relationships with several women on the show.

A former female writer for David Letterman has provided a behind-the-scenes portrait of the show that is anything but funny.

But on Thursday, October 1, minutes before the start of the day's 4:30 p.m. taping, Letterman had summoned about fifteen of the Late Show 's senior producers, writers, and crew members to his dressing room.

Many comments on yesterday's post argue that the problems associated with radically altered images of women should be solved not by their producers but by their consumers, asserting that the latter must take a oepersonal responsibilitya or simply avoid these products and publications .

You "Fox & Friends" watchers - or those who remember Gretchen Carlson as a Channel 9 news reporter in the early 1990s - might like to see her interview about being one of MORE magazine's "MORE beautiful At 40 Than 20." From this 1994 Channel 9 photo, you might agree.