Television News - Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Neil Patrick Harris, best known as the star of TV comedy "How I Met Your Mother," will host the prime-time Emmy Awards in September, organizers said on Monday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He lives in a pineapple under the sea but has fans in more than 170 countries, a theme-park ride and is one of the best-connected celebrities in the world.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ryan Seacrest is Fox's 45-Million-Dollar Man.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League said on Monday it has signed up IMG Worldwide, the sports and media company, as the agent to license select television rights in certain international markets.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A close friend of late "Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett will publish her personal diaries about the actress' three-year struggle with cancer next month.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC's new fall drama series "Parenthood" has been pushed to midseason because of an unspecified illness that has befallen Maura Tierney, one of its stars.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It wasn't the lure of a big paycheck that seduced an Oscar-nominated actress like Amy Ryan, who this season took a guest-starring turn on NBC's "The Office."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With their livelihoods threatened by downsizing and layoffs and bloggers equipped to impersonate them, it's easy to understand why television critics might not feel they receive all the respect they deserve these days.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The showrunner is the workhorse of the television business, acting as the head writer, producer, casting director, editor, sound mixer, studio liaison, network communicator, hand-holder and surrogate parent.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Television loves the troubled, iconoclastic loner.