Ryan Seacrest

If you've ever wanted to spend a day at Disney World or Disneyland -- a whole day -- Feb. 29 is your chance. To celebrate the leap year, Disney will keep its flagship parks open 24 hours straight. That'll be a challenge for the House of Mouse -- and for Leap Day visitors' endurance.

Freelance writer Dennis Hensley calls them Job Hogs: media people who seem to be everywhere while everyone else is out of work. Like Ellen Degeneres. Or Ryan Seacrest. "Ryan Seacrest wants to be Dick Clark, the original Job Hog," he says. "That I get. But Ellen being the spokesperson for Cover...

Usually conservative in its programming choices, CNN is going for broke as it remakes two-thirds of its prime-time schedule by, among other things, replacing a fixture -- Larry King -- and hiring a scandal-tinged newcomer -- Eliot Spitzer.

Although all involved have tried to minimize the damage, there is little doubt that Paula Abdul's departure from American Idol has ripped the beating heart out of the show's chest. Worse than the injury to the show, however, is the underlying economic fiasco that it has revealed: as Simon Cowell...

American Idol parent 19 Entertainment has signed host Ryan Seacrest to an unprecedented 3-year, $45 million deal to host the show and/or any show that succeeds it.It's a recession and American Idol's ratings have been in decline for the past few seasons, but the new deal still triples Seacrest's...