NEW YORK - Procter & Gamble, the company responsible for the phrase "soap operas," is out of the daytime drama business after 76 years now that CBS is making "As the World Turns" stop spinning.
NEW YORK - Kristen Wiig's recurring character Gilly might not seemed filled with holiday cheer, yet NBC is turning to her to host a "Saturday Night Live" Christmas special.
BOULDER, Colo. - Police say a former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" has been arrested for investigation of assault in Colorado.
NEW YORK - Bryant Gumbel shocked a television audience with the news that he's recovering from cancer surgery and treatment. The former "Today" show anchor, 61, said a malignant tumor and part of his lung were removed two months ago. He revealed his condition to Kelly Ripa while subbing for Regis Philbin on Tuesday's edition of "Live With Regis and Kelly." (Philbin recently had hip replacement surgery.)
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Even if her straying husband had asked her to, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she wouldn't have stood with Gov. Mark Sanford when he faced cameras to tell the world about his affair with an Argentine woman.
ALBANY, N.Y. - Weezer has canceled the rest of its December tour after the lead singer was injured in a bus crash in New York.
LOS ANGELES - A colossal budget, visionary technology and a down-to-the-wire workload on a film whose fortunes are a real question mark.
TORONTO (Reuters) - As music lovers approach a new decade in this still-young century, a recording technology once considered old and obsolete -- vinyl -- has been making a strong comeback.
LONDON - Elton John's partner says the musician was devastated that he wasn't allowed to adopt an HIV-positive Ukrainian toddler, but plans to support the boy anyway.
NEW YORK - David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show," joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice.
TRENTON, N.J. - "The Boss" is backing gay marriage in the Garden State.
NEW YORK - The Kings of Leon are the kings of the iTunes album charts for 2009.
NEW YORK - ABC News' Chris Cuomo is likely to move to the nighttime newsmagazine "20/20" as its co-host.
NEW YORK - A publicist for Alexa Ray Joel says the daughter of Billy Joel is feeling better two days after being hospitalized in New York for a possible overdose of pills.
LOS ANGELES - A VH1 reality series that promises an inside look at the lives of NBA players' wives and girlfriends is set to air early next year.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A medical examiner has found that the cousin of rock veteran Bruce Springsteen died from an accidental drug overdose.
NEW YORK - NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week.
LONDON - Michael Jackson and Mother Teresa. Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama. And now Shakira.
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood picked the right decade to go over the rainbow.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For more than 20 years, Colin Firth has been the movie industry's go-to, buttoned-up English man.
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pearl Jam will return to Europe in the summer for a series of headlining and festival appearances, beginning June 22 in Dublin.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS said on Tuesday it was canceling one of its longest-running daytime television soap operas, "As the World Turns", after 54 years.
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The country-folk duo of M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel, known as She & Him, is slated to return in 2010, proving that the 2008 collaboration wasn't just a one-off affair.
NEW YORK (Mediaweek) - Struggling sophomore talker "The Bonnie Hunt Show" will stop production at the end of this season.
TOKYO - Actor Johnny Depp highly recommends his latest movie — though he said he hadn't personally gone out to see it yet.
MILAN - If the critics are right, La Scala's production of Bizet's "Carmen" could well give new force to the role of women in Italian opera.
MIAMI (AFP) - An ambulance responded early Tuesday to a call for medical assistance from the Florida home of Tiger Woods, US media reported.
PARIS - France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for an infection following back surgery.
NEW YORK - The publisher of President Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope" has stepped down.
LOS ANGELES - Police say they are investigating a burglary at the Los Angeles home of Nicky Hilton.