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Fox News has Bill O’Reilly’s back. Facing allegations that the conservative pundit exaggerated war reporting experiences as a CBS News correspondent, a spokesperson for the news net said, “Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes and all senior management are in full support” of the O’Reilly Factor host. For his part, O’Reilly has called allegations that his accounts of time during the Falklands War are inaccurate, “such a smear it is unbelievable.” Over the weekend, three former CBS News employees spoke to CNN, questioning O’Reilly’s version of events.
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Meanwhile Brian Williams, suspended for six months without pay from his post as NBC News anchor and managing editor for an embellished account of events during the Iraq War, resigned as a member of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation’s board of directors. Williams, who apologized for the misrepresentation, had been on the board since 2006.
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Shameless star William H. Macy makes his TV directing debut on the season five episode airing Sunday, March 1 at 9p on Showtime.
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Destination America and USA Today are partnering for the third annual “Red White and You” contest. The competition, running now through Sunday, April 5, will offer two winning towns fanfare-filled Fourth of July celebrations. Nomination form can be found on the net’s web site.
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CW special TV’s Hottest Commercials Countdown airs tonight at 8p, with never-before-seen spots from 17 different countries. What to expect? “Using sex in commercials to sell a product is nothing new,” Robert Horowitz, says president of Juma Entertainment and exec producer of the show. “But as viewers will see tonight, commercials from other countries push the envelope and are often hotter and sexier than what we see in the U.S. These spots are definitely going to have people talking.”
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Wesley Snipes (Blade) hopped aboard NBC drama pilot Endgame, a thriller from Davis Entertainment and Sony Television set in Las Vegas.
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Calista Flockhart (Brothers & Sisters) landed a co-starring role opposite Melissa Banoist in CBS’s Supergirl. Brothers & Sisters exec producer Greg Berlanti is an exec producer on the project.
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German-born YouTube personality Flula Borg will star in NBC comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the BBC Three comedy that starred Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andy Samberg.
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Sunday’s Academy Awards averaged 36.6 million viewers, a six-year low, swooning 17 percent among A18-49 to a 10.8 rating but was still TV’s top entertainment telecast since last year’s Oscars. Digitally it was a different trajectory, with visits to Oscar.com up 8 percent, to 18.3 million, including 7.1 million (up 1 percent) on Sunday.
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Oscars basked in awards show afterglow, earning its second largest audience ever (5.8 million viewers).
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The second Monday airing of AMC freshman Better Call Saul drew 5.8 million viewers and 3.7 million among A18-49 in Live+3, up 1 percent from the week prior.
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Actor Paul Napier died February 21. He was 85. Napier, General Motors’ first Mr. Goodwrench, appeared on over 400 commercials, as well as television shows including L.A. Law, Taxi and Coach.
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Actor Ben Woolf died February 23. He was 34. Woolf, who played Meep in American Horror Story: Freak Show, was hospitalized in critical condition on February 19 after being hit in the head by the side mirror of a passing vehicle in Hollywood. “We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from all over the world,” said his family in a statement Monday.
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