Television - Page 8

AP - Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of April 9-15. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses. More Info...  

AP - With a backlash developing against the media for airing sickening pictures from Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, Fox News Channel said Thursday it would stop and other networks said they would severely limit their use.

AP - When British actor Lennie James arrived in Los Angeles early last year, he gave himself three months to get a gig. After three weeks, he'd been offered two. More Info...  

Reuters - NBC News' broadcast of a video manifesto by the Virginia Tech university killer drew criticism from police on Thursday, and some of the victims' family members canceled interviews with the network.

E! Online - For Neil Patrick Harris, life hasn't changed much since the November day he confirmed that he's "a content gay man.

E! Online - Sanjaya Malakar is appreciative of his Fanjayas and all—he just doesn't want them getting too close.

E! Online - It's official: Brandy has been eliminated from America's Got Talent.

E! Online - The combined efforts of Howard Stern, votefortheworst.

E! Online - In the blink of a freshly tucked eye, Joan and Melissa Rivers went from standing on top of the red carpet to getting swept under the rug.

E! Online - Rosie O'Donnell has made a splash in Bermuda without even setting foot on its white-sand shores.

Reuters - Desperate times evidently call for desperate shows. And even though things aren't quite as bad at NBC as they were a year or two ago, this quasi-reality trifle smacks of something you would do if you had tried and struck out with everything else.

Reuters - TV Guide Channel is replacing red-carpet mavens Joan and Melissa Rivers with Lisa Rinna.

Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- After more than a month of negotiations, the future of ratings-challenged NBC crime dramas "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" is still uncertain.

Reuters - When disgraced Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling granted his first interview after being charged with fraud and insider trading, it was Larry King who received the plum exclusive.

Television News

AP - Even before it was opened, the oversized letter sent from Cho Seung-Hui to NBC News attracted attention. The postal worker who brought it to NBC's Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday pointed out the return address of Blacksburg, Va.

AP - Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," died after a battle with pneumonia, her son said Wednesday. She was 96.

AP - Joan Rivers is being replaced by Lisa Rinna as TV Guide Channel's leading red-carpet host. The actress will make her debut at the Emmy Awards on Sept. 16, the network said Wednesday.

AP - BET is making the first scripted series in its 28-year history, a sitcom about a group of black slackers. More Info...  

AP - An annoyed look from "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell as a contestant expressed sadness over the Virginia Tech shootings was drastically misinterpreted, Cowell and the show said Wednesday.

AP - Larry Birkhead has only kind words to say about Howard K. Stern, his former adversary in the Anna Nicole Smith paternity case.