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HBO to carry 'Sesame Street'
LOS ANGELES - The Muppets, longtime residents of PBS, are getting a second home at HBO.
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'Game of Thrones' earns 24 Emmy nominations
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - The Emmys, television's highest-profile awards, could have seized the moment with Thursday's nominations to fully acknowledge the wealth of diverse talent adding to the medium's vibrancy and relevance.
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'American Idol' faces final season
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PBS' 'Wolf Hall': 16th-century powerbroker makes his play
LOS ANGELES - Sure, "Downton Abbey" is easy to love with its romance, high fashion and Ye Olde McMansion. But PBS' "Wolf Hall" boasts its own seductive strength, courtesy of a 16th-century powerbroker who would be at ease in "House of Cards" and the dashing English king he serves.
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Game show is lottery, Monopoly combo; actor Gardell hosts
LOS ANGELES - It sounds like a Swiss Army knife version of a TV game show: a combination of a venerable board game, state lotteries, Las Vegas and seasoned comedian Billy Gardell as host.
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The British are coming to late-night: Corden ready to chat
LOS ANGELES - James Corden is the perfect host.
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'Star Trek' actor lived long and prospered
LOS ANGELES - In 1975, Leonard Nimoy published an autobiography with the defiant title, "I Am Not Spock" - an attempt to show the world he had many more facets than the pointy-eared character that had come to define him.
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On an island
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James' riff on Jane Austen comes to TV
LOS ANGELES - Actors generally are eager for work and a challenge, but Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell Martin admit they were skittish about taking on the lead characters of "Pride and Prejudice."
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New 'NCIS' spinoff sets up shop in New Orleans
LOS ANGELES - The newest members of the successful "NCIS" TV franchise understand the importance of their family roots.
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Comedian Rivers dies at 81
Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.
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Emmy hopefuls play the angles to nab trophies
LOS ANGELES - If it walks like a drama and talks like a drama and yet calls itself a comedy, that's just fine with the Emmy Awards.
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Williams' wife: Actor had Parkinson's disease
LOS ANGELES - Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson's disease at the time of his death, his wife said Thursday.
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'Reading Rainbow' gets hand from MacFarlane
LOS ANGELES - LeVar Burton's "Reading Rainbow" fundraising effort is getting a boost from a generous pal, Seth MacFarlane.
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