The legal nightmare engulfing Martha Stewart is increasingly a nightmare for investors in the company bearing her name.

Vivendi Universal said on Tuesday it was ready to sell its American entertainment business including Universal Studios.

The audience appetite for reality television could be tested by a planned cable channel that will offer a diet of all reality, all the time.

Mary Lou Quinlan worked her way up the corporate ladder for 20 years, becoming one of the few women to be named president and chief executive of a major Madison Avenue advertising agency. But for Ms. Quinlan, a usually upbeat 49-year-old, the achievement turned out to be a hollow victory.

The U.S. and British military campaign is not all that is winding down in Iraq.

"Mr. Personality," the Fox reality dating show with Monica Lewinsky as host, displayed a dominant personality with viewers for its premiere Monday night, according to Nielsen Media Research figures.

Blacks prefer TV fare with black casts, but tastes of blacks and whites are converging, a new study says.

Lifetime magazine, backed by publisher Hearst Corp. and entertainment firm Walt Disney Co., hits U.S. newsstands this week on hopes of winning over viewers of the namesake cable network for women.

Katie Couric making jokes about the news she reports? Jay Leno forced to interview the politicians he mocks? Those intriguing possibilities become real on May 12. The two NBC personalities have agreed to switch jobs for a day.

Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of April 7-13.