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Summer is traditionally the dead zone for TV ratings thanks to a combination of repeats and more hours of daylight. (Seriously-daylight savings time? Bad for farmers and for TV executives.) But with the arrival of …
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Brandy and Michael Bolton are among the celebrities hitting the ballroom dance floor on the next season of "Dancing with the Stars," ABC announced today. The R&B singer and old-school crooner will face …
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Last week, as rumors began to circulate that Simon Cowell's British talent competition "X-Factor" used Auto-Tune to alter contestants' voices, Piers Morgan, who is a judge on both "America's Got Talent …
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American Idol bosses say they have never used "auto-tune" technology to improve contestants' vocals.
They were responding to the recent furore surrounding the use of pitch-correction technology on ITV …
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A bedazzled Katy Perry made a grand entrance on "Today" Friday (August 27) morning, descending to the stage in a cotton candy cloud that brought to mind the cover for her new album Teenage Dream and the …
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The BBC has begun discussions about launching a new weekly music TV show, according to the Times.
The publicly funded U.K. broadcaster canceled its weekly chart show "Top of the Pops" in 2006 after 42 …
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Universal Music U.K. is targeting the pre-school audience in a bid to take a lucrative slice of the children's TV market and its accompanying merchandise opportunities.
The music major's U.K. arm has signed a …
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It's 10 a.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of a cavernous soundstage at Paramount Studios, and while the world outside is bathed in sun, everything inside is dark -- everything, that is, except for the warren of classrooms …
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Simon Cowell has gone from "American Idol" judge to a potential headache for the show.
A furor over whether Cowell's British talent show "The X Factor" electronically altered contestant …
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