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President Obama has spoken out regarding recently leaked information about two top-secret government surveillance programs during a 45-minute interview on PBS` Charlie Rose. The POTUS` interview was filmed Sunday and aired Monday night, addressing the National Security Agency controversy, Syria, Iran, China and hacking threats. Obama called the controversial, big brother-like surveillance programs "transparent," maintaining that the programs were not at risk of being abused by government officials. He said that the public`s concern was due in large part to the fact that "they`re not getting...

Bruce Lee has been memorialized with a seven-foot bronze statue in Los Angeles' Chinatown. The statue of the late actor and martial arts expert was unveiled Saturday to a crowd of several hundred people in the historical Central Plaza, according to the Los Angeles Times. His daughter, Shannon, said the statue -- which was created by an artist in Guangzhou, China -- is the first of its kind to honor her father in the U.S. Its unveiling comes on the 40th anniversary of Lee's death as well as the 75th anniversary of Chinatown and was part of the annual nighttime celebration Chinatown Summer N...

The three acts still standing on NBC's The Voice sang for the championship on Monday night, and whoever wins will be making show history in some way: The Swon Brothers would be the first winning duo, Danielle Bradbery would be the youngest champion crowned to date, and Michelle Chamuel would be an introductory win for first-time coach, Usher. The finals kicked off with the four coaches teaming up for The Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends," with Usher and...

Scott Disick is going psycho. But this time, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star (and father to Kourtney Kardashian`s two young children) is doing it all in good fun. Kim Kardashian`s beau (and new father)...

Though his band is broken up, Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey recalls what it was like to perform with (and get a kiss from) his idol, The Ataris front man Kris Roe, and ponders what's next. "I want to start scoring music and putting music in TV shows, I don't know how they do that so I want to start learning about that. I would love to have another band or maybe s...

The family of an Arizona man whose suicide was carried live on the air by Fox News Channel last September are suing the cable network. Read the complaint Here. According to the complaint, filed by Angela Rodriguez, the mother of JoDon Romero's three sons, aged 9, 13 and 15, the boys have suffered extreme emotional distress after seeing online video of their father pressing a handgun to his head and pulling the trigger. News Corp, Fox Entertainment Group and Fox...

Quinn Taylor is set to follow former ABC colleague Jeff Bader to NBC. Taylor, who will leave his post as SVP of movies, miniseries and acquisitions at the ABC Entertainment Group, is currently in talks to join the rival. At NBC, he is set to become EVP of miniseries and co-productions, reporting to NBC entertainment president Jennifer Salke. The move comes as NBC, like other broadcast networks, looks to beef up its output of limited series and co-productions in its bid to line its schedule with original programming. Co-productions, in particular, can come at a particularly at...

Showtime is ramping up its fall dramas. A new 30-second teaser for the Michael Sheen-Lizzy Caplan series, Masters of Sex, has made its way to the web. The period entry doesn't debut until Sept. 29, but the premium network is rolling out a voiceover-heavy promo teasing the sexually charged world inhabited by their alter egos, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters and Johnson were the real-life pioneers who explored the science of human sexuality...

Day by day, Netflix continues to movie away from content provider to full on broadcast company, and they show no signs of slowing down. With "House Of Cards," "Hemlock Grove" and "Arrested Development" already out of their original programming gate in 2013, with "Orange Is The New Black" coming next month, the company has now inked another deal that will find even more exclusive shows on their site. We hope your local internet provider is ordering up some new servers.Netflix and DreamWorks Animation are partnering for 300 hours of material exclusive to the streaming sit...

Turns out there is such thing as a free lunch-especially if you`re an Emmy voter and it`s the final full week of campaigning before ballots are due. The most competitive Emmy race in history got another dose of campaign stunt work on Monday when Netflix, which has two hot contenders in the race -- House of Cards for drama series and Arrested Development for comedy series -- delivered a BBQ lunch to the offices of The Hollywood Reporter. The lunch, earmarked for staffers who cover the shows, included an announcement that Cards` fictional BBQ joint Freddy`s would be operating fo...

A week after Community creator Dan Harmon was officially reinstated as showrunner on the fifth season of NBC's cult comedy, the vocal TV writer-producer let it all hang out. Harmon had previously said that he had not yet watched the fourth season of Community, which was co-run by Moses Port and David Guarascio- until now. As Harmon put i...

TAORMINA, Sicily - News Corp`s international pay television unit announced Monday it would launch Fox Sports Italy starting in August. The new channel, which will broadcast top league soccer action from Europe along with sports news and talk shows, is part of a wider international expansion for sports coverage under the Fox International Channels banner: over the last two years, the company launched Fox Sports in Brazil and Japan, it acquired a majority stake in Eredivisie Live in The Netherlands, and it converted the Star-ESPN brand into Fox Sports in southern Asia. The company says its o...

News of Rupert Murdoch's divorce filing from Wendi Deng led many reporters down the breadcrumb trail to his last high-profile breakup -- from second wife Anna in 1999, which, it was widely reported, cost the Australian media magnate $1.7 billion. Among those who cited the staggering figure: The New York Times, The Independent, The Telegraph and The Hollywood Reporter. But Guardian media columnist Michael Wolf, a Murdoch obsessive who penned the book The Man Who Owns ...

Jimmy Kimmel is up to no good. In addition to leading his Jimmy Kimmel Live late-night talker, the host has been pulling double duty with special NBA Finals-themed game night editions in primetime. The latest Jimmy...

The penultimate Mad Men episode, "The Quality of Mercy," perfectly placed a spotlight on all that`s been right and wrong about this season, but thankfully did all of that in an ultimately superb episode that sets up the season finale (which, in turn, might end up defining the season). Mad Men is not a series about Bob Benson, a fact ...

True Blood returned to HBO on Sunday night -- and though its audience by nearly 14 percent, the vampire drama is still outranked the recent Game of Thrones opener. The inaugural broadcast of Sunday's sixth season premiere was seen by 4.5 million viewers. That's down 700,000 viewers from last season's 5.2 million ...

True Blood returned to HBO on Sunday night -- and though its audience by nearly 14 percent, the vampire drama is still outranked the recent Game of Thrones opener. The inaugural broadcast of Sunday's sixth season premiere was seen by 4.5 million viewers. That's down 700,000 viewers from last season's 5.2 million ...

The recently relaunched Myspace and ABC`s Jimmy Kimmel Live! are teaming up for a yearlong initiative that will bring the show`s extended musical performances to a wider audience. Beginning June 18, select artists booked for JKL`s concert series will have their outdoor stage performances, which typically feature as many as five songs, livestreamed in HD on Myspace. The first act scheduled for the bonus webcast: Empire of the Sun, who will perform s...

Dave Chappelle is co-headlining Funny or Die's Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival alongside Flight of the Conchords duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The elusive, reclusive comedian -- who famously walked away from his popular Comedy Central show in 2005 -- will hit 13 cities on the tour, which kicks off Aug. 23 in Austin and winds t...

The alarming, outrage-inducing photos of Charles Saatchi grabbing Nigella Lawson by the neck in a London restaurant have turned the spotlight upon the advertising mogul, Lawson's husband of nearly 10 years. The images, which have now gone global, show the beloved celebrity chef and judge on ABC's The Taste looking fearful in an apparent strug...