• 'Brokeback Mountain,' 'Crash' honored by Writers Guild of America

  February 5, 2006
  "Brokeback Mountain" was named best adapted screenplay and "Crash" won the top original screenplay award from the Writers Guild of America.

• ABC adding more reality TV programming to its spring schedule

  February 2, 2006
  ABC has announced that it will be adding more reality TV programming to its lineup this spring, opting to fill the scheduling holes left by the upcoming finales of its Dancing with the Stars and The Bachelor reality shows with the return of Supernanny, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hurricane recovery specials, and two new reality series called American Inventor and Miracle Workers.

• Cynthia Nixon surprised 'Sex and the City' still gaining fans

  February 1, 2006
  Actress Cynthia Nixon says she is surprised to see people still discovering her now-defunct TV comedy, "Sex and the City."

• Fox's 'Skating With Celebrities' proving to be a ratings success

  February 1, 2006
  Fox's Skating With Celebrities might be little more than an ice skating ripoff of Dancing with the Stars, but so far it is proving to have something else in common with the smash hit ABC ballroom dancing competition -- ratings success.

• South Korean teacher fined for pinching

  January 27, 2006
  South Korea's Supreme Court has laid down the law: it will not tolerate a teacher pinching a student's genitalia and fined the instructor for doing so.

• 'Fear Factor South Africa' contestant loses half her hair in show stunt

  January 26, 2006
  A dangerous stunt on "Fear Factor South Africa" ripped out half the hair from a contestant's head and left her hospitalized with a concussion.

• 'The Apprentice' moves to Mondays, fifth edition to debut February 27

  January 23, 2006
  NBC has announced that The Apprentice 5, which it had previously announced would premiere "after the Olympics," will literally do so, premiering on Monday, February 27, the day after the network's Sunday night broadcast of the closing day ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

• NBC resurrects 'Last Comic Standing,' orders new edition for summer

  January 18, 2006
  NBC has announced that it has ordered a fourth edition of its Emmy-nominated reality talent competition, reviving the series after a two-year layoff that followed the network's unwise Summer 2004 decision to overexpose the show by premiering a third, hastily-assembled Fall 2004 edition only weeks after its Last Comic Standing 2 summer edition had ended.

• HBO's 'All Aboard!' to document Rosie O'Donnell's gay family cruise

  January 17, 2006
  Comedian Rosie O'Donnell says she was surprised when participants in the first gay family cruise were met by protesters in the Bahamas.

• Fox's 'American Idol 5' returns with more shrieks, slight tweaks

  January 17, 2006
  The fifth season of Fox's American Idol juggernaut will premiere this evening, and while the new season won't feature any of the more significant "higher age limit" changes of seasons past, American Idol's producers have once again slightly tweaked the top-rated show's smash-hit formula.

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