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15 July 2008 1:22 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Madonna's brother has claimed that the Queen of Pop will fight to save her marriage to Guy Ritchie. Christopher Ciccone commented on the pair's relationship as he made an appearance on Us TV show Good Morning America to promote his new tell-all book, titled Life With My Sister Madonna. Ciccone told the ABC programme that he does not believe Madonna is secretly planning to divorce Ritchie at the end of this year, despite recent press speculation. "I believe that she will do what's best for her family and her kids, and I think that she'll do her best to maintain the marriage and keep it going," he explained. "She's not the type (more)

By Daniel Kilkelly

14 July 2008 9:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Madonna's estranged brother Christopher Ciccone hit out at reports the singer is involved in an affair with baseball star Alex Rodriguez on a U.S. TV show on Monday morning - insisting she's still a "Catholic girl".

The singer and Rodriguez have been forced to deny having an affair, following tabloid reports linking them romantically since Rodriguez' split from his wife Cynthia earlier this month when she filed for divorce.

Ciccone appeared on chat show Good Morning America to discuss his forthcoming tell-all tome, Life With My Sister Madonna - alleged by the star's spokesperson to cut all ties between the pair.

And despite his estrangement from his superstar sister, Ciccone insists an affair would be out of character for the star.

He says, "I think it (an affair) is highly unlikely. Despite everything else, she's still a Catholic girl. Although he is kind of her type, so it's difficult to say.

"I think that he (Rodriguez) was interested in Kabbalah to be honest... We (Rodriguez and I) have met a number of times. I doubt this is an affair.. I'm sure she had nothing to do with the break-up of their (Rodriguez') marriage. It seemed absurd to me truly. I don't believe it."

Ciccone's book is slated for release next on Tuesday.

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8 July 2008 6:44 PM, PDT | From Digital Media Law | See recent Digital Media Law news

AFTRA has ratified the primetime contract, but SAG’s assault had great effect. The margin – the percent of yes votes – was only 62.4%. The percentage of no votes was 37.6%. Turnout was not released.

In contrast, the margin on the somewhat similar daytime pact (the AFTRA Network Code), ratified April 30, was 93%. In other words, SAG drove the margin down by 30 points – well over what I (I had predicted 20 points) and other expected when SAG’s anti-aftra campaign began.

Thus, although the deal passed, this has to be counted as a partial victory for SAG. A strike authorization vote still seems unlikely, because a 75% yes vote is required for passage and the fact that the AFTRA deal passed makes a successful strike authorization vote questionable. Nonetheless, SAG will be emboldened by the low yes vote achieved by AFTRA, and is likely to resist compromise with the AMPTP for some time to come, absent

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)

26 June 2008 10:38 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Tom Brokaw is insisting that his current stint as Tim Russert's replacement on Meet the Press is only temporary. And while his remarks may have the familiar ring of Diane Sawyer's when she took over hosting duties on Good Morning America and Bob Schieffer, who announced his plans to quit Face the Nation earlier this year, Brokaw maintains that he won't take on the Meet the Press assignment "as a fulltime job under any condition." In an interview with TVNewser website, Brokaw said, "My intention is to get us through the election and give [NBC News president] Steve Capus time to make a decision. If he hasn't made a decision by then, if he needs extra time, I'll give him extra time. I've had my moment in the sun. I've been at this a long time. ... I want to go back to the imperfectly-mapped out plan for my life."

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11 June 2008 5:30 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Paul Newman has responded obliquely to a number of published reports that say he is gravely ill with cancer, while a longtime business associate and friend of the star has confirmed that the 83-year-old screen hero is battling the disease. While not specifying the type of cancer, writer A.E. Hotchner, a founding partner in Newman's Own salad dressing company, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that Newman first informed him about the health battle 18 months ago. On Tuesday, Newman's spokesman in Los Angeles, Jeff Sanderson, told Reuters and other media outlets: "Newman says he's doing nicely."Without elaborating, Sanderson added: "He says he's doing nicely,

Stephen M. Silverman

7 May 2008 10:46 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Barbara Walters says she can identify with the problems that Katie Couric is currently facing as anchor of the low-rated CBS Evening News. Like Couric, Walters left Nbc's Today show to anchor an evening news program -- in her case, Abc's World News Tonight, where she shared the anchor desk with Harry Reasoner beginning in October 1976. The newscast, already last in the ratings, fell even further under the Reasoner-Walters team, and by July 1978 the pair were gone, replaced by an experimental format in which the traditional anchorman was eliminated. In an interview with today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times to promote her new book Audition, Walters compared her own experience with Couric's: "She's going through a very difficult time," she said. "And I think, like me, she'll survive." Asked about her supposed bitter rivalry with Abc's Diane Sawyer, Walters insisted that they have always been on friendly terms and recently had lunch together. "People will be very surprised that we have that kind of relationship," she told the Times. "Diane and I were pitted against each other, deliberately. We hated it. ... But we never had animosity toward one another." Walters is being interviewed for a one-hour ABC special tonight -- not by Sawyer, but by Sawyer's longtime Primetime and Good Morning America cohost, Charles Gibson.

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7 March 2008 10:33 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

CBS made it official Thursday: Shelley Ross is out as executive producer of the network's The Early Show after just six months. The hard-driving Ross, who previously had overseen Abc's Primetime and Good Morning America, had reportedly generated a serious morale problem among Early Show staffers, several of whom had threatened to leave if she remained. The network said that she will be replaced "on an interim basis" by Rick Kaplan, currently the executive producer of The CBS Evening News.

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29 February 2008 12:25 PM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Shelley Ross, the news show executive producer who has a way of raising hackles among talent and staff wherever she goes, is once again doing so at Cbs's The Early Show, the New York Post indicated today (Friday). The newspaper's "Page Six" column quoted one veteran producer as saying, "I can't stand working here anymore. I can't stand people being humiliated this way. ... I've seen a lot of crazy people, but she takes the cake." Ross, the former producer of Abc's Primetime and Good Morning America, reportedly demanded that Rob Foreman, who produces medical stories for the morning show, read an apology to colleagues after he remarked during an editorial meeting, "Since when did scientific evidence matter on this show?" A source told the Post that Ross "was so enraged [that] he had questioned the value of her stories that she demanded he write a formal apology and then made him read it to the entire newsroom." A producer was ordered to reschedule his colonoscopy because it was sweeps month, another source told the newspaper. But a different source defended Ross, saying, "It is a general rule in TV that during sweeps, it's all hands on deck."

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27 February 2008 10:29 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Although ABC had the Oscars last week, Fox had three nights -- count 'em, three nights -- of American Idol, and that's all it took to come out on top of the Nielsen ratings for the final full week of the February sweeps. Moreover, the Oscars telecast was the lowest rated since Nielsen began keeping track in 1974. (The low ratings also affected those for Abc's Good Morning America. Gma often beats Nbc's Today show the day after the Oscars simply because millions of people leave their TV sets tuned to the ABC channel when they go to bed.) Fox wound up the week with an average 8.6 rating and a 14 share. ABC placed second with a 6.1/10. CBS came in third with a 5.1/8, while NBC trailed with a 4.6/7. The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research:1. Academy Awards, ABC, 18.7/29; 2. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 16.4/25; 3. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 16.1/24; 4. American Idol (Thursday), Fox, 13.4/21; 5. Oscar's Red Carpet 2008, ABC, 13.3/21; 6. Deal or No Deal, (Monday), NBC, 10.0/15; 7. Without a Trace, CBS, 8.0/13; 8. Barbara Walters Oscars Special, ABC, 7.7/13; 8. Csi: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 7.7/12; 8. Lost, ABC, 7.7/12; 8. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 7.7/12.

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16 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

During an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's Good Morning America Tuesday, Diane Keaton blurted out the "f" word, then apologized. The incident might have triggered action by the FCC, but FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said later that a recent court decision overturning the FCC's policy on the fleeting use of such expletives tied the commission's hands. The FCC is appealing the decision. An ABC news spokesman called the incident "unfortunate" and said that that word had been bleeped in later feeds to time zones in the West.

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