Two weeks into non-Jay Leno programming, NBC's audience for the final hour of prime-time TV has increased by 45 percent. While NBC doesn't necessarily have any hits in that hour, the instant response by viewers indicates they are more comfortable with the traditional ...

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for March 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership. 1. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 22.75 million. 2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 20.7 million. 3. "NCIS," CBS, 19.58 million. 4. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 19 ...

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - A French documentary film will attempt to show the power television holds over people when it presents the results of a fake television game show in which participants inflict pain on other people. "How Far Will Televison Go?" reproduces its own version of an experiment conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, in which volunteers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Republican congressman and father of "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi tossed his hat into the New York Senate race Tuesday in an bid to challenge Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Joseph DioGuardi, an accountant who served two terms in the House of Representatives in the 1980s, said he was running for the Republican Senate ...