television

'American Idol' reaches its lowest rating
By Hyo Jeong Cho
March 11, 2011 - 4:34pm
Show still helps 'Bones' beat 'CSI.'

"American Idol" reached its lowest rating of the season. However, it still had enough views to dominate Thursday night and help "Bones" defeat "CSI," according to Entertainment Weekly.

Bones had a 3.4 rating while CSI had a 3.1. 

 

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Simon Cowell will be a judge on 'The X Factor'
By Stephanie Rose ...
February 8, 2011 - 12:00pm
Former 'American Idol' judge will be part of judging panel for new talent competition.

Ex-American Idol judge Simon Cowell announced to reporters on Monday he will be one of the judges on the American version of The X Factor, People reports.

Cowell is the executive producer of the talent competition show that is a huge hit in Europe. He will also help choose the rest of the judges on the panel.

"The Partridge Family" star charged with DUI
By Shelby Fenster
November 4, 2010 - 5:01pm
David Cassidy faces charges after being stopped by police Wednesday night

David Cassidy has been charged with DUI after he was stopped by a Florida Highway Patrol officer on Wednesday.

According to CNN, Cassidy was stopped on a Fort Pierce highway.  After failing roadside sobriety tests, Cassidy blew a .14 on an alcohol breath test.  

Police found a half-empty bottle of bourbon in Cassidy's Mercedes.  Cassidy told officers he drank a glass of wine with lunch and had taken a hydrocodone pill three hours earlier.  

Networks blocking shows from Google TV
By Shelby Fenster
October 22, 2010 - 5:40pm
ABC, CBS and NBC blocking programming on their websites.

ABC, CBS and NBC will not allow viewers to watch their shows through Google’s new Web-TV service.  Google TV allows people to access the Internet and search for videos on their television screens. 

According to The Wall Street Journal, the networks are concerned about Google’s stance on websites that offer pirated videos.  However, Google has said Google TV will promote the networks’ broadcasts and websites’ content, not pirated content.

Scott Sanders unscripted
By Jason Berger
February 23, 2010 - 9:47pm
Writer and director of 'Black Dynamite' discusses the creative and racial challenges of the entertainment industry.

Scott Sanders, writer and director of the film Black Dynamite, came to Syracuse University on Tuesday to participate in a Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media with television, radio and film professor Richard Dubin. The free-flowing discussion, held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III, focused on the changes in the entertainment industry over the past two decades and on Sanders’s thoughts on opportunities for African-Americans in film.           

Mother of Columbine shooter speaks out
By Kristina D'Amore
October 14, 2009 - 6:54pm
Ten years after the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, the mother of one gunman is speaking out.

For the first time since the Columbine massacre in 1999, usatoday.com reports that one parent of the shooters is speaking out.  Susan Klebold wrote an essay for O, The Oprah Magazine, detailing the family's experience of the tragedy.  In the essay published on Tuesday, she says that she had "no inkling" of her son's depression, or that he helped assemble an arsenal of weapons.