News on David Letterman

Strong ratings for Leno's return to late-night

2010-03-13T07:30:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Jay Leno's first week is ratings hit, but it's settling into a fight with David Letterman</div><div><p>After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy.</p><p>The Nielsen Co. says Leno averaged 5....

Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty

2010-03-10T10:01:04Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.&l...

Letterman: Case against producer handled properly

2010-03-10T04:00:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Letterman says prosecutors 'appropriately' handled attempted extortion case against producer</div><div><p>From the start, David Letterman made sure the story of a $2 million shakedown attempt over his sex life was one he narrated himself.</p><p>It was the comic, not prosecutors, who broke the news of the case, which spurred him last fall to acknowledge affairs with women on his st...

Letterman's scandal is over, but can he beat Leno?

2010-03-09T16:30:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Letterman's scandal is over, but what everyone wants to know now is, Can he beat Leno?</div><div><p>Dave Letterman can heave a huge sigh of relief after the guilty plea Tuesday of a TV producer charged with trying to extort him.</p><p>No time-consuming legal mumbo-jumbo will be dogging Letterman. No more messy, embarrassing public revelations of his sexual affairs — real and alleg...

Leno to Letterman: Thanks for Super Bowl ad invite

2010-02-22T10:33:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Leno says he and Letterman buried the hatchet, reminisced about old times on Super Bowl ad set</div><div><p>Jay Leno has a message for David Letterman: Thanks.</p><p>Leno said that "whatever happened in the last 18 years disappeared" when the two comics got together to film their surpri...

Super Bowl TV spot brings Leno, Letterman together

2010-02-22T10:53:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Super Bowl spot surprises viewers by joining David Letterman with Jay Leno _ and Oprah Winfrey</div><div><p>Super Bowl viewers were rubbing their eyes at the sight of a TV spot pairing CBS late-n...

Just like old times: Letterman vs. Leno renewed

2010-02-22T16:52:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Just like old times: Letterman, Leno feud in full bloom with hosts set to renew competition</div><div><p>It's Letterman vs. Leno, redux.</p><p>With Conan O'Brien's exit official, CBS's David Letterman and NYC judge refuses to throw out case against suspect in David Letterman extortion plot</div><div><p>A jury should get to decide whether a TV producer's dealings with David Letterman were attempted blackmail or just hard-nosed business, a judge ruled Tuesday.</p><p>David Letterman extortion plot</div><div><p>A judge has turned down a TV producer's request to toss out a criminal case accusing him of blackmailing David Letterman over the comic's love life.</p><p>Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice C...

Letterman Suspect

2010-01-19T04:00:40Z

Late Show with David Letterman host David Letterman is shown outside his show's studios in New York, Monday, April 21, 2008. A judge is expected to rule Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010 on a Robert Halderman's bid to have grand larceny charges droppe...

Conan O'Brien rejects moving 'The Tonight Show'

2010-02-22T21:27:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Conan O'Brien rejects NBC's attempt to move 'The Tonight Show' to a post-midnight slot</div><div><p>Conan O'Brien has refused to play along with NBC's plan to move "The Tonight Show" and return David Letterman to apologize for a joke the group has labeled 'transphobic'</div><div><p> <p>The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay rights advocate, has asked comedian David Letterman to apologize for a joke the group has labeled “transphobi...

Celebrities are frequent targets of extortion

2010-02-23T07:34:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Celebrity extortion plots more prevalent than headlines portray, insiders say</div><div><p>There was no shortage of celebrity secrets for sale in 2009, with John Travolta, David Letterman, Cindy Crawford and others claiming they were victims of ...

Celebrity Extortions

2009-12-31T05:30:48Z

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2008 file photo, television talk show host David Letterman walks out of The Ed Sullivan Theater during a taping of "The Late Show with David Letterman", in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

Letterman extortion suspect looks to Woods scandal

2010-02-23T08:16:31Z

<div id="subtitle">Citing Woods scandal, Letterman extortion suspect says it's not a crime to sell silence</div><div><p>The TV producer accused of shaking down David Letterman to keep mum about his affairs is drawing on the Tiger Woods sex scandal to try to bolster his defense.</p><p>In court papers...

Jackson's death voted top 2009 entertainment story

2010-02-23T13:08:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Michael Jackson's death, Susan Boyle's success voted top entertainment stories of 2009</div><div><p>Here are 2009's top entertainment stories as voted by U.S. newspaper and broadcast editors surveyed by David Letterman for $2 million said he needed money to visit his son and would mask the transaction as a business deal, prosecutors said Tuesday.</p><p>David Letterman ?There is no business like show business?. Besides having a perfect business strategy one needs to have quality & presentable product and services for effective execution of the plan.<br>With so many web design companies in the market it becomes imperative that while choosing a Web designer one should fairly explore the niche of different agencies, shop around and check the v...

TV Letterman Woods

2009-12-08T01:15:56Z

FILE -- In a Jan. 13, 2009 file photo talk show host David Letterman leaves a taping of the "Late Show with David Letterman," in New York. Letterman Monday Dec. 7, 2009 dived right into material on Tiger Woods on the "Late Show," joking he ...

With familiarity, Letterman jokes about Woods

2010-02-23T19:18:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Heard that one before: David Letterman jokes about Tiger Woods</div><div><p>David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show" on Monday, joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice.</p><p>Even though the...