• NBC's 'Last Comic Standing 4' sends Bil Dwyer and Joey Gay home

  June 28, 2006
  NBC's Last Comic Standing 4 has eliminated two more of its finalists, sending Bil Dwyer and Joey Gay home at the conclusion of a four-way head-to-head showdown between Bil, Joey, Chris Porter, and Michele Balan, who despite her landslide victory in last week's three-way showdown, was once again challenged to perform in this week's episode.

• 'Last Comic Standing 4' sends Stella Stolper and April Macie home

  June 21, 2006
  NBC's Last Comic Standing 4 has eliminated the first of its twelve finalists, sending Stella Stolper and April Macie home at the conclusion of what amounted to a three-way head-to-head "Ladies Night" competition easily won by Michele Balan.
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  NBC's 'Last Comic Standing 4' reveals its twelve finalists

  June 14, 2006
  After two episodes covering its open auditions and two more broadcasts that chronicled its Los Angeles semifinals round, last night's Last Comic Standing 4 broadcast ended with the NBC reality show revealing the identities of this season's twelve finalists.

• Nick Cannon stars in new 'The Adventures of Brer Rabbit' DVD

  March 19, 2006
  Some of Hollywood's top stars are bringing the folk tales of Uncle Remus to home video in the animated film, "The Adventures of Brer Rabbit."

• Al Michaels exits ABC Sports, thought to be joining NBC's football team

  February 8, 2006
  Longtime ABC announcer Al Michaels will not be part of the broadcast team when ESPN takes over "Monday Night Football."

• Teen with cancer reunited with dog

  January 14, 2006
  A 15-year-old New York City girl has been reunited with her Yorkshire terrier, but only after a $6 million lawsuit to get the pooch back had been filed.

• Doctors tell country singer Gretchen Wilson to rest her voice

  September 29, 2005
  Country singer Gretchen Wilson has been told by her doctors to rest her voice, she announced from Nashville Thursday.

• Country music star Gretchen Wilson under fire for chew can prop

  August 26, 2005
  Gretchen "Redneck Woman" Wilson has been asked by Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers to stop using a can of smokeless tobacco as a concert prop.
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  PAX TV's 'Cold Turkey II' reality series sequel to premiere April 19

  April 5, 2005
  PAX TV has announced that Cold Turkey II, the sequel to its Fall 2004 Cold Turkey reality series, will premiere Tuesday, April 19 at 9PM ET/PT.
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  'American Idol 4' finalist Scott Savol avoids boot despite prior misdemeanor convictions

  April 1, 2005
  Despite reports yesterday that American Idol 4 finalist Scott Savol, 28, had been convicted of two prior misdemeanors, including one for an assault on the mother of his four-year-old son, Idol producers announced last night that they had already known about the convictions and that Scott would not be removed from the ongoing finals, which has been reduced to the final nine contestants.

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