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Stand Up to Cancer telethon takes over network TV

By SANDY COHEN

Published: Sep 06, 2008

Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS.

Jack Black, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry and Keanu Reeves - along with presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama - were among the stars participating in "Stand Up to Cancer," an hourlong, commercial-free fundraising show spearheaded by entertainment-industry heavyweights whose lives have been touched by the disease.

"This is an absolutely historic night, thanks to the unbelievable generosity of the three networks," producer and cancer survivor Laura Ziskin told the audience at the Kodak Theatre before the show began.

"We hope we're going to make you laugh, and I know we're going to make you cry, so I have some party favors," she said as she tossed packets of Kleenex into the crowd. More

Sep 05, 2008

• FCC plans to go through with DTV test in NC

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Friday that he is unlikely to delay plans for an important test in North Carolina that could disrupt television service for some viewers in the path of Tropical Storm Hanna.

Sep 05, 2008

• Guests on Sunday TV news shows

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

Sep 05, 2008

• CBS sues NFL Players over fantasy football

CBS has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis to clarify who can use the statistics that underlie fantasy football leagues.

Sep 05, 2008

• Dr. Green returns in `ER' final-season flashback

Dr. Mark Greene is coming back to "ER," but he's not coming back from the dead.

Sep 04, 2008

• VMAs offer glimpse of music and mayhem

Britney Spears may not sing at MTV's Video Music Awards, but Christina Aguilera will.

Sep 04, 2008

• More than 40 million people see Palin speech

Barack Obama apparently isn't the only "rock star" in presidential politics this year.

Sep 04, 2008

• Russell Brand brings a British twist to MTV awards

America, meet Russell Brand.

Sep 04, 2008

• Dynamic duo Griffin, Rickles paired for Emmy show

Kathy Griffin, who shook up an Emmy ceremony last year with her rowdy acceptance speech, is bringing her act to this year's prime-time awards show. Griffin and Don Rickles, a comedian who's legendary for his combative style, will team up as presenters at the Sept. 21 ceremony airing on ABC, the TV academy says.

Sep 03, 2008

• List of top 20 shows in prime-time Nielsen ratings

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Aug. 25-31. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

Sep 03, 2008

• NBC stayed on top last week, with viewership down

What a difference the Olympics makes, especially when it's over.

Sep 03, 2008

• Network TV's anchor trio join the cancer fight

Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams have something in common besides their jobs: Each has lost loved ones to cancer - which gives them something in common with nearly everybody.

Sep 03, 2008

• DAVID HILTBRAND: New season of bikers and barristers

The new TV season doesn't begin for three weeks. But a number of shows are diving in early, intent on getting a few laps in before the big boys cannonball into the pool. Today we look at a pair of new cable series that are jumping the networks.

Sep 03, 2008

• Late-night TV hosts tread lightly with Palin

Late-night comics tread lightly when referring to the pregnancy of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's unwed daughter.

Sep 03, 2008

• Oprah Winfrey hosts Olympians in Chicago

Thousands of spectators cheered Olympic medalists Michael Phelps, Dara Torres and Kobe Bryant on Wednesday as the city of Chicago got a high-profile boost to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Sep 03, 2008

• Letterman wants to call sunset for late-night gig

David Letterman wants to stick with CBS' "Late Show" through his contract - and maybe longer - as rival Jay Leno prepares to surrender the "Tonight" reins next year.

Sep 03, 2008

• '90210' debuts: The best surprise is no surprise

There weren't a lot of surprises on the premiere of "90210."

Sep 02, 2008

• A comedy series on BET finds humor in college life

Many college students see the diploma that awaits them as their ticket to success.

Sep 02, 2008

• Ike Pappas, who broadcast Oswald death, dead at 75

Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and reported the chaotic scene live on the air, has died at 75.

Sep 02, 2008

• Life, art are one for Bonnie Hunt

Actress Bonnie Hunt has seen one of her characters on TV turn into real life. Hunt has starred in three of her own television sitcoms and on the last one, "Life with Bonnie," she played a talk-show host.

Sep 02, 2008

• Pop culture Q&A: Commercials nibble away at TV shows in prime time

Question: How many minutes of advertising in one hour of TV?

Sep 02, 2008

• Vampire novels adapted for HBO's 'True Blood'

As fictional lovers go, bubbly blond Sookie Stackhouse and tall, pale Bill Compton are as massively mismatched as they come. After all, Sookie (Anna Paquin) is exuberantly human and Bill (Stephen Moyer) is, well, totally undead in HBO's flamboyant new vampire saga, "True Blood."

Sep 02, 2008

• Lewis telethon raises record $65 million for MDA

Jerry Lewis raised a record $65 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in his annual Labor Day telethon, a benefit that also made a pitch for those inconvenienced by Hurricane Gustav.

Sep 01, 2008

• On a holiday, big news unfurled on TV sets

A seat in front of the television - rather than a backyard barbecue - was the place to be on Labor Day with fast-breaking news stories about Hurricane Gustav and head-turning revelations about GOP vice presidential choice Sarah Palin.

Sep 01, 2008

• 'Caesar's Hour' writer Sheldon Keller dies at 85

Sheldon Keller, a writer who collaborated with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on the 1950s sketch comedy show "Caesar's Hour" and wrote variety shows for Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren and other stars, died Monday. He was 85.

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