• Last Comic Standing 4 - Episodes 1 & 2 summary

  June 1, 2006
  "In Which Nothing Whatsoever Happens For Two Whole Hours," our episode summary for the special back-to-back two-hour premiere broadcast of Last Comic Standing 4, the fourth edition of NBC's Last Comic Standing series, written by Estee, is now available.

• Olympic medalist Angela Ruggerio to compete on 'The Apprentice 6'

  May 31, 2006
  NBC has announced that Olympic medalist Angela Ruggerio has won last February's stunt casting promotion that allowed viewers to vote a member of Team USA's 2006 Torino Winter Olympics squad into the group of candidates who will compete on the sixth edition of The Apprentice.

• 'Last Comic Standing 4' encore bumps 'Fear Factor' return to June 13

  May 31, 2006
  NBC has announced that Fear Factor, originally scheduled to return to the airwaves on June 6, will now return to the network's schedule on Tuesday, June 13 at 8PM ET/PT. An encore episode of Last Comic Standing 4's open auditions, originally broadcast last night, will fill Fear Factor's June 6 time period.

• Donald Trump's 'The Apprentice 5' finalists begin their final tasks

  May 30, 2006
  With last week's double firing of Allie Jablon and Roxanne Wilson having narrowed The Apprentice 5's field to the competition's two finalists, last night's The Apprentice broadcast set the stage for next week's live finale.

• NBC moves this fall's 'Biggest Loser 3' to Wednesdays against 'Lost'

  May 26, 2006
  Less than two weeks after unveiling its Fall 2006 schedule, NBC -- candidly admitting that it is reacting to the subsequent fall schedules released by ABC, CBS, and Fox -- has released an "adjusted" 2006-2007 primetime program schedule that shuffles every weeknight and moves the network's The Biggest Loser reality series into the Wednesdays 9PM ET/PT time period opposite ABC's Lost.

• Lawsuits alleging Mark Burnett 'The Apprentice' idea theft settled

  May 23, 2006
  Lawsuits filed in Los Angeles state and federal courts charging Donald Trump, NBC Universal and Mark Burnett with stealing "The Apprentice" have been settled.

• Allie Jablon and Roxanne Wilson fired from 'The Apprentice 5'

  May 23, 2006
  After teaming up to send their friend and co-worker Tammy Trenta home last week, The Apprentice 5 candidates Allie Jablon and Roxanne Wilson had no one but each other to go after when their team lost for the second week in a row. In doing so, Allie, a 30-year-old medical sales manager from Columbia, SC, and Roxanne, a 26-year-old appellate attorney from Austin, TX, appeared to annoy Donald Trump with their "disloyalty" to each other, resulting in both of them being fired.

• NBC's 'Fear Factor' to return June 6, air its final thirteen episodes

  May 23, 2006
  NBC has announced that Fear Factor, pulled from the airwaves after an unsuccessful relaunch attempt this past winter, will return to the airwaves with thirteen all-new episodes beginning Tuesday, June 6 at 8PM ET/PT.

• NBC reveals the identities of its 'America's Got Talent' judges

  May 22, 2006
  NBC has announced that Brandy, David Hasselhoff, and Piers Morgan will serve as the three-person judging panel for America's Got Talent, the network's new Simon Cowell-created reality talent competition that will premiere on Wednesday, June 21 at 8PM ET/PT with a special two-hour broadcast.

• Former 'Apprentice' star Martha Stewart selling 'Turkey Hill' home

  May 19, 2006
  The four-acre Westport, Conn., spread Martha Stewart calls "Turkey Hill" is on the market for $9 million.

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