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• 'Mad Men,' 'Modern Family' among year's best TV

  AP – Tue Dec 8, 10:20 am ET
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  NEW YORK - The biggest shows of 2009 couldn't always be contained by the TV screen. There were breakout tabloid scandals with Jon and Kate Gosselin. A wannabe reality TV star crashed the White House. David Letterman's hanky-panky seized headlines. Oprah Winfrey grabbed the nation's attention as she began her long goodbye. This was TV run amok. Full Story »

• Elisha Cuthbert cast in ABC's "Forgotten"

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 11:29 pm ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Elisha Cuthbert, of "24," has joined the ABC drama series "The Forgotten" in a recurring role. Full Story »

• With familiarity, Letterman jokes about Woods

  AP – Tue Dec 8, 9:31 am ET
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  NEW YORK - David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show," joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice. Full Story »

• VH1 drafts "Basketball Wives" docu-soap

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 9:44 pm ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Call it "The Real Housewives of the NBA." Full Story »

• Russell Simmons focus of reality show

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 9:55 pm ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Oxygen is developing a reality show with Russell Simmons that focuses on the women in the hip-hop entrepreneur's life. Full Story »

• Cable network TNT pinning hopes on "Men"

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 1:49 am ET
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  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - TNT might know drama, but does it remember how to launch a hit show? Full Story »

• 'Family Ties' actor arrested after Colo. assault

  AP – Tue Dec 8, 6:49 am ET
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  BOULDER, Colo. - Police say a former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" has been arrested for investigation of assault in Colorado. Full Story »

• NBC's "Today" show going to Afghanistan

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 10:09 pm ET
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  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week, in the wake of President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to that country, the network said on Monday. Full Story »

• Reality series `Basketball Wives' set for VH1

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 9:21 pm ET

  LOS ANGELES - A VH1 reality series that promises an inside look at the lives of NBA players' wives and girlfriends is set to air early next year. Full Story »

• Jerry O'Connell signs on for NBC pilot

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 12:02 am ET
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  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jerry O'Connell is set to co-star in NBC's comedic drama pilot "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer," replacing Sendhil Ramamurthy days after the "Heroes" regular was cast in the role. Full Story »

• NBC sends Lauer, Roker to Afghanistan

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 5:56 pm ET

  NEW YORK - NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week. Full Story »

• "Monk" finale sets cable ratings record

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 2:55 am ET
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  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Monk" ended its eight-season run with a bang, becoming the most-watched hourlong series on basic cable. Full Story »

• ABC says Sawyer's last `GMA' broadcast Friday

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 5:53 pm ET
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  NEW YORK - ABC's Diane Sawyer says goodbye to "Good Morning America" on this week after 2,881 shows — not that she's counting. Full Story »

• Midlife anxieties laid bare in insightful "Men"

  Reuters – Sun Dec 6, 5:05 pm ET
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  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," Henry David Thoreau wrote. But desperation, quiet or otherwise, can be the stuff of superior drama, as demonstrated by Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and countless other works. Full Story »

• 'Lost,' 'Idol' and Ozzy among decade's TV Top 10

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 1:47 pm ET
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  Mostly excellent, all of them memorable, here are the decade's Top 10 television achievements as tapped by the TV writers of The Associated Press. Full Story »

• "Cane" creator to write "Dallas" remake

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 2:54 am ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Cynthia Cidre has been tapped to write TNT's new take on the long-running primetime soap "Dallas." Full Story »

• Dating couple wins CBS `Amazing Race' TV contest

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 12:55 pm ET
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  NEW YORK - Cool thinking at the craps table has won a San Diego couple $1 million on the CBS reality television show "The Amazing Race." Full Story »

• Elvis Costello enjoys TV role as "carnival barker"

  Reuters – Fri Dec 4, 5:52 pm ET
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  NEW YORK (Billboard) - 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.