HBO lands rights to inaugural ceremony (Reuters)
Reuters - HBO will kick off coverage of Inauguration Week with an exclusive Sunday, January 18, telecast of the star-studded openi...

Pop singer Annie readies album after label split (Reuters)
Reuters - After a worldwide record deal with Island Records collapsed last year, Norwegian electropop songstress Annie is forging ...

New Eminem, 50 Cent songs hit radio and Web (Reuters)
Reuters - There's still no solidified release dates for upcoming albums from Eminem and 50 Cent, but new music from both rappers h...

CBS replaces "Worst Week" with more "Rules" (Reuters)
Reuters - CBS plans to return the midseason comedy "Rules of Engagement" to its schedule on March 3, replacing freshman series "Wo...

Bollywood bids Bush goodbye with a parting shot (Reuters)
Reuters - Barely two weeks before George W. Bush leaves the White House, Bollywood is ready with a farewell present -- a film that...

Japanese emperor marks 20th anniversary of reign (AFP)
AFP - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have commemorated the 20th anniversary of their reign by visiting the tomb of w...

A&E puts a collar on "Paranormal Cops" series (Reuters)
Reuters - Who you gonna call? How about 911?...

Obama offers CNN's Gupta surgeon general post (Reuters)
Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama has asked neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be U.S. surgeon ge...

Actresses hit the books to study for their roles (Reuters)
Reuters - It's any parent's worst nightmare: A trusted authority figure might or might not have initiated an inappropriate physica...

Televisa and Univision spar in court fight over TV deal (Reuters)
Reuters - Univision breached its contract with partner Grupo Televisa by failing to pay more $100 million in royalties, a Televisa...

"True Beauty" another TV travesty (Reuters)
Reuters - The Ashton Kutcher-ing of television continues with ABC's "True Beauty," a pandering show that finds the actor who gave ...

Apple to sell copy protection-free songs (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc has reached a deal with major record labels to sell digital songs without the copy protection software that ha...

Lisa Marie Presley defends Scientology (AP)
AP - Lisa Marie Presley is expressing her condolences over Jett Travolta's death and defending Scientology, the religion that Pres...

NBC and John Wells on "Police" beat (Reuters)
Reuters - NBC, looking to keep a John Wells-branded drama on the air after the March finale of the producer's "ER," is in talks to...

Travolta's son cremated, ashes flown to Florida (Reuters)
Reuters - The body of actor John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, was cremated in the Bahamas after his sudden death during the N...

Garner Delivers! Jen & Ben Welcome Baby No. 2 (E! Online)
E! Online - Jennifer Garner's nursery is abloom with more than Violet....

Anna Nicole Smith judged cleared of wrongdoing (AP)
AP - Authorities say the former judge who presided in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's remains has been cleared of any wrongdo...

Best-selling "God" author faces plagiarism claim (AP)
AP - Neale Donald Walsch, best-selling author of "Conversations with God," said Tuesday that he unwittingly passed off another wri...

CNN's Medicine Man Tapped for Surgeon General? (E! Online)
E! Online - Barack Obama is apparently looking to bring sexy back to Washington....

Prosecutors to Polanski: All is not forgiven (AP)
AP - Fugitive director Roman Polanski received a message from prosecutors in a sexually explicit court motion Tuesday that all is ...