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Rowland, Rubio joining Cowell's show

Simon Cowell has added former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and Latin artist Paulina Rubio to the cast of his competition show "The X Factor."

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TELEVISION

CBS pulls comedy season-ender because of tornado

CBS has taken the scheduled season-ending episode of "Mike & Molly" off the air because its plot line revolved around a tornado threatening the couple.
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Woman on Trump: 'Somebody had to stand up to him'

An 87-year-old woman who alleges Donald Trump cheated her in a skyscraper-condo sale told jurors Monday she had qualms about suing the real estate mogul and TV celebrity. But, she quickly added, "Somebody had to stand up to him."
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Rosie Pope helps navigate exotic baby gear

Amid the purveyors of belly casts and placenta pills, sonogram art and cord banks at a recent baby gear extravaganza stood a smiling Rosie Pope, pregnancy advice guru, mommy concierge to the rich and, with any luck, the Martha Stewart of maternity.
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NBC hires news division chief from Britain

NBC went out of the company and out of the country to find a president for its news division, on Monday naming the first woman to hold the top job.
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Faced with adversity, Michael Douglas keeps forging ahead

PASADENA, Calif. - One thing you can count on in Hollywood is that actor-producer Michael Douglas always does the unexpected. When he first started he became the hot new actor in the TV series, "The Streets of San Francisco." But he put that aside for a while to become a producer. His first venture...
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'Chuck' and 'Smash' stars head to Broadway

A couple of stars from TV's "Chuck" and "Smash" will soon be dating on Broadway.
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Derek Hough wants to expand career beyond 'Stars'

Derek Hough has made it to the finals of the 16th edition of "Dancing With the Stars," which wraps Tuesday, but he almost didn't return to the ABC show this season.
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Fall TV: Networks woo viewers lost to cable, online

The fall TV season for the five networks is still months away, but the battle already has started to win back some of the viewers who have shifted to cable and online programming.
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Network offerings for fall have the ring of the familiar

Any way you look at it, it was a tough year for the networks. Broadcast ratings dropped by an average of 7.5 percent, the steepest decline in six years.
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Curry, Kimmel, Zucker among game changers of 2012-13 TV

MINNEAPOLIS - When future generations look back at the 2012-13 TV season, they'll most likely wax nostalgic about survivalists whacking zombies, ad executives drinking away their sorrows and a spoiled young woman in New York who's into topless table tennis. They may also raise a glass to an extinct...