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Why don’t TV stars like to watch television?

Stage actors love theater. Film actors see movies. Musicians dig concerts by their fellow musicians. But TV performers just don't seem to catch much TV, according to an unofficial survey spanning years of interviews I've had with them. Full story

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'Housewives' stars teaming up for Emmys

NBC will keep trying to ride Phelps’ wave

Forget swimming ... badminton, anyone?

ESPN throwing its hat in the Olympic rings

Political commentator Maddow gets own show

France bans broadcast of TV shows for babies

Fonz statue gets two thumbs up in Milwaukee

Agency settles TV writers' age-bias lawsuit

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OMG! It’s The Cheetah Girls’ ‘World’

'CSI' casts Fishburne as Petersen bows out

Soap opera casting for injured Iraq war vet

Texas town upset with Stephen Colbert

It's a ‘Mad’ world for actors playing Pete, Peggy

J.R., Sue Ellen, and Bobby to reunite in 'Dallas'

‘90210’ stories will come out of ‘real emotion’

Seacrest's name added to Clark’s party title

Laurence Fishburne is prime ‘CSI’ suspect

Dinosaurs interact with humans on 'Primeval'

Olympics on TV

Test Pattern: Add tug of war to the Olympics?

Olympic interest likely to wane in second week

Pronunciation Olympics: Bay-jing? Bay-zhing?

Good luck skipping the Olympics on TV

‘Daily Show's’ Riggle takes comedy to China

Review: Online Olympics ambitious, but not TV

Do you believe in Olympic spoilers? Yes!

NBC off to fast start with Olympic ratings

NBC gets big ratings for Opening Ceremonies

Biggest reality show of all? It's the Olympics

Opinions on television

5Top: TV shows that need to be on DVD

‘Mad Men's’ Hamm hit it big with first lead role

Tune in to the joy of TV's guilty pleasures

Shrink rap: TV characters love therapy

Powerful TV women must face backlash

Battle for film, TV production gets 'Ugly'

Possible SAG strike

SAG faction unveils candidates slate

SAG says informal talks held with studios

SAG board unanimously reaffirms demands

SAG internal rift means standoff could drag on

Dissident actors challenge SAG leaders

SAG stakes fight on made-for-Internet content

Studios, SAG mum after latest meeting

2008 Emmy Awards

‘Hills’ Lauren Conrad to design Emmy dress

5 nominated reality hosts to host Emmys

Danson relishes first post-‘Cheers’ Emmy nom

‘Mad Men,’ ‘Damages’ make Emmy history

Emmy’s credibility down to ‘The Wire,’ again

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2008 Emmy major-category nominees

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Will May-Treanor go 'Dancing'?

‘Project Runway’ becomes a ‘drag’ strip

Eclectic mix of contestants for ‘Amazing Race’

Meet ‘The Amazing Race 13’ teams

Next 'Bachelor' was rejected by 'Bachelorette'

How about Michael Phelps as ‘The Bachelor’?

Dancing is hotter than ever ... on TV

‘Top Model’ to feature transgender contestant

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2008 Emmy nominees
‘Mad Men,’’30 Rock’ and the series stars were among the nominees for TV’s annual prime-time programming awards.

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Favorite furry celebrities
From Benji to Morris the Cat to Marcel the monkey, many animal stars have stolen our hearts.

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The week in celebrity sightings
Britney gears up for VMAs; Jack Black brings the ‘Thunder,’ Madonna turns 50.

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Television video

A Soup truce?
Aug. 13: Countdown’s Keith Olbermann and VH1’s Joel McHale discuss their epic TV show clip duel and the long road that has brought them to a tentative truce.

Surprise 'Runway' judge

Olbermann rights O'Reilly's wrongs

A year of Morning Joe

Katee Sackhoff on ‘Battlestar’

Kennedy highlights 'First Lady of the Press'

New Kids reunite

Get ‘Lost’ with Matthew Fox

J.J. Abrams talks ‘Fringe’

‘Baby Borrowers’ reunion

Prime-time Nielsen ratings

For the week of Aug. 11-17

1. “Summer Olympics-Tuesday,” NBC, 34.01 million viewers
2. “Summer Olympics-Saturday,” NBC, 31.59 million viewers
3. “Summer Olympics-Monday,” NBC, 30.17 million viewers
4. “Summer Olympics-Thursday,” NBC, 29.71 million viewers
5. “Summer Olympics-Wednesday,” NBC, 27.66 million viewers
6. “Summer Olympics-Sunday,” NBC, 27.18 million viewers
7. “Summer Olympics-Friday,” NBC, 26.07 million viewers
8. “Two And a Half Men,” CBS, 8.07 million viewers
9. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.22 million viewers
10. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.09 million viewers.