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NBC’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Renewed, Donald Trump Says

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 12, 2013 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump
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NBC’s official 2013-14 schedule issued just two hours ago announced Celebrity Apprentice as being still on the bubble and not renewed for next season. Not according to star Donald Trump. “I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT CELEBRITY APPRENTICE HAS BEEN RENEWED FOR ANOTHER SEASON BY NBC,” he just tweeted. “SEE YOU AT THE NBC UPFRONTS TOMORROW.“ No word back from NBC yet whether Trump has really been renewed or he will be crashing the party. Trump likes the stage at the NBC upfront — two years ago he used it to announce his decision not to run for President and return to Celebrity Apprentice.

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Donald Trump Pulls Plug On $5M Bill Maher Lawsuit

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday April 1, 2013 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Bill Maher, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump

Well, it’s April 1st and we have our fool. After all his huffing and puffing, Donald Trump has unsurprisingly withdrawn his $5 million lawsuit against Bill Maher. The Celebrity Apprentice host had his lawyers file the request for dismissal with prejudice in LA Superior Court on March 29. Trump, whose NBC show hit a season low last night, first filed the breach of contract suit back in early February against the HBO host. He said that Maher broke a written promise that he’d give $5 million to the charities of Trump’s choice if The Donald could prove he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.”

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Bill Maher On Donald Trump Lawsuit: “Suck It Up” – Video

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday February 9, 2013 @ 6:27pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, Donald Trump

To remind you, Bill Maher told Jay Leno he’d give $5 million to the charities of Donald Trump’s choice if the Celebrity Apprentice host could prove he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan”. In the breach of contract lawsuit (… Read More »

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Donald Trump Acts Like Horse’s Ass Again

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 4:59pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump

Talk about stupid lawsuits. Donald Trump has actually sued talk-show host and (fellow?) comedian Bill Maher to pay up on a joke bet Maher offered last month on The Tonight Show. Mocking Trump’s similar offer asking President Obama to … Read More »

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Bob Greenblatt: NBC May Act On ‘Apprentice’ Star Donald Trump If He “Says Or Does Things That Cross The Line”: TCA

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday January 6, 2013 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Donald Trump, NBC
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The Apprentice star Donald Trump was a constant lighting rod for controversy during the recent presidential campaign with his birther obsession and outrageous comments and Twitter rants against everyone from President Obama and the GOP to Rosie O’Donnell. … Read More »

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Trump Talks To Letterman About His Offer To Obama: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 25, 2012 @ 6:20pm PDTTags: David Letterman, Donald Trump, President Obama, Stephen Colbert

Donald Trump explains to David Letterman his $5 million charitable challenge for President Obama to release his college records and his passport application:

And after the jump, watch Stephen Colbert’s report on Trump’s “October surprise” offer, with Colbert’s $1 million counter-offer to Trump. Plus a clip of Barbara Walters on The View, telling her friend Trump “You’re making a fool of yourself.”
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Global Showbiz Briefs: ‘Walking Dead’, Donald Trump, Plus Camerimage, ‘The Taste’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday October 24, 2012 @ 1:45am PDTTags: Donald Trump, The Taste, The Walking Dead

‘The Walking Dead’s International Premiere Eats Competition
The highest-rated non-sports telecast among adults 18-49 on all of U.S. television this fall was the third season premiere of AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead. The international premieres weren’t too shabby either. Fox International Channels completed its weeklong rollout of the first episode of Season 3 with 8.5M viewers, up 20% on the Season 2 debut. The first episode of Season 3 premiered in 122 countries across Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, defeating all cable competition in its time period with total viewers, and in some cases also beating its broadcast competition. Among some of the key markets that outpaced last season’s start are Peru (up 155%); Chile (up 133%) and Australia (up 44%). Across Fox in Latin America, the show was number 1 among all Pay TV channels in the 18-49 demo, delivering double or triple ratings compared to the previous 6 weeks’ primetime channel average. Other strong territories included the UK, Poland and Spain, where the premier outperformed Fox’s primetime average in the market by 712%.

Donald Trump Tries To Stop BBC Airing Doc
Lawyers for Donald Trump reached out to the BBC two days before it was set to air Anthony Baxter’s documentary You’ve Been Trumped about the real estate mogul’s alleged bullying of residents near his golf resort in Scotland. The attorneys were trying to stop Sunday night’s BBC Two broadcast, claiming it was highly defamatory, biased and misleading, according to The Guardian. The Trump organization threatened to complain directly to British regulator Ofcom if the screening went ahead. But the BBC showed the doc anyway to about 1.1M viewers. The letter from Trump’s reps had also asked for a right of reply at the end of the broadcast. Trump International Golf Links exec VP, Sarah Malone, told The Guardian: “We totally denounce the BBC for further abandoning its own editorial integrity by blatantly refusing us a right of reply at the end of the broadcast.” Picking up on the unfolding – and unrelated – turmoil at the BBC, she added, “It just goes to show that recent criticism of the BBC’s lack of sound editorial judgment to be correct.” In reply, the BBC issued a statement: “You’ve Been Trumped is an award-winning Read More »

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NBC To Air Miss Universe Live Dec. 19

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 10:25am PDTTags: Donald Trump, Miss Universe, NBC, Telemundo

The 61st Annual Miss Universe competition will air live December 19 from 8-10 PM ET on NBC with a Spanish-language simulcast set for Telemundo. The Las Vegas-set event will be hosted by Bravo’s Andy Cohen and E!’s … Read More »

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Donald Trump Fired President Obama In Never-Shown GOP Convention Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 8:46am PDTTags: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Republican National Convention

The GOP had to cancel the first day of its Republican National Convention last month due to the threat of Hurricane Isaac. With it went plans to show a Republican Party-produced video of Donald Trump sitting behind his desk The Apprentice-style and giving the business to a man … Read More »

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Tangles With Donald Trump Over Obama’s Birth Place: Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ 3:20pm PDTTags: CNN, Donald Trump

What can you say about Donald Trump‘s refusal to accept that President Obama was born in Hawaii? Even though the president has released his birth certificate, The Donald dug in his heels in an interview with CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer.  ”If you’d report it accurately, you’d probably … Read More »

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Miss Universe 2013 About To Transgender?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 3:27pm PDTTags: Donald Trump

GLAAD announced today that the Miss Universe Organization is close to finalizing an official policy change that will allow women who are transgender to participate in its beauty competitions. It follows more than two weeks of discussions. The new rules still have to be approved by Donald Trump and NBC, who co-own the beauty contest. But let’s face it: this could make ratings soar. Final language on the changed rules is expected in the next few weeks as pageant season begins internationally for the competition. The announcement comes less than a week after Jenna Talackova, a 23-year old Canadian who had a sex change operation four years ago, initially had been disqualified from the 61st Miss Universe Canada pageant after organizers learned that she had once been a he. Talackova’s public pleadings to Trump as well as media attention caused GLAAD to contact the the Miss Universe Organization on March 24th after the news broke. GLAAD called on the Miss Universe Organization to review Talackova’s case, as well as open the competition to transgender women.  Read More »

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Donald Trump Unveils New ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Lineup

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 6:13am PSTTags: Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump, NBC

Not so long ago Donald Trump probably hoped that he’d be talking today about his performance in last night’s Republican caucuses in Iowa. Instead he’s announcing the latest list of personalities who will join him on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice beginning … Read More »

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‘Apprentice’ Self-Promoter Donald Trump Exits As GOP Debate Moderator After Most Candidates Say ‘No’; Hints (Again) At Run

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 12:05pm PSTTags: Donald Trump, GOP Debate, ION Television

The Apprentice hack host Donald Trump grabbed still more publicity for himself today by announcing that he is pulling out as moderator of a planned debate between GOP presidential candidates that had been set for December 27 on ION Television. … Read More »

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Donald Trump To Moderate GOP Debate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday December 2, 2011 @ 2:46pm PSTTags: Donald Trump, GOP Debates, ION Television, The Celebrity Apprentice

Donald Trump has been tapped to moderate an upcoming Republican presidential candidate debate sponsored by online news site Newsmax and to be broadcast on ION Television. The debate, set for December 27 in Des Moines, Iowa, will be the final … Read More »

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David Letterman, Kathie Lee Gifford Among Guests During Regis’ Final Week On ‘Live!’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 8, 2011 @ 12:10pm PSTTags: David Letterman, Donald Trump, Jimmy Fallon, Josh Groban, Live with Regis and Kelly, Regis Philbin
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With Regis Philbin set to depart Live! With Regis and Kelly on November 18, the show has booked “some of Philbin’s favorite guests and friends” for his final week. They include Philbin’s former co-host Kathie Lee Gifford (November 17), fellow … Read More »

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GOP Candidates Seeking Hollywood Help

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 5:44am PDTTags: Donald Trump, GOP, Herman Cain, Michael Moore, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin

UPDATE: TV and radio political pundit Dennis Miller on Monday announced that he’s endorsing Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and will headline a political fundraiser in Los Angeles. Miller also is making donations to the campaign and offering to write for … Read More »

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NBC Calls Donald Trump ‘Apprentice’ Pay Report “Grossly Inaccurate”

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 3:54pm PDTTags: Donald Trump, Mark Burnett, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

NBC today took the rare step of responding to a tabloid story — a report in the New York Post that Celebrity Apprentice executive producers Mark Burnett and Donald Trump have a two-year deal with the network that will pay … Read More »

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Donald Trump Announces He Won’t Run For President And Will Return To ‘Apprentice’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 16, 2011 @ 9:50am PDTTags: Donald Trump, NBC, President, The Apprentice
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NBC made a big headline at its upfront presentation today regarding Donald Trump. Trump took the stage to deliver the news: “After getting so many calls from (top NBC executives), I’ve decided that we are going to continue onward with … Read More »

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UPDATE: Trump Won’t Run; Decision Follows NBC’s Contingency Plan To Recast Donald On ‘Apprentice’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 15, 2011 @ 11:50am PDTTags: Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump, NBC, recast, Sunday Night Football
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UPDATE MONDAY AM: NBC made a big headline at its upfront presentation today regarding Donald Trump who took the stage to deliver the news: “After getting so many calls from NBC executives, I’ve decided that I will continue onward with The Apprentice. I will not be running for president, as much as I wanted to,” he said. “This will be our 12th season. I love Celebrity Apprentice.” Just yesterday, NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said on a conference call that NBC was working on plans to replace Trump on The Apprentice should he decide to run. After Trump’s statement, which drew big applause from the audience of ad buyers, Greenblatt quipped, “Every network wants to make news at its upfront. Try topping that!” Over the past few months, Trump had been publicly flirting with the idea of running for President. At some point, he mulled announcing his final decision on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice but then scrapped that idea.

SUNDAY: NBC had both Sunday Night Football and Celebrity Apprentice on its just-revealed schedule for next season despite the NFL football season being in limbo because of the current players lockout and Celebrity Apprentice star Donald Trump mulling a presidential bid. During a conference call today, NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt expressed hope that both football and The Donald will be back but also said that the network is working on contingency plans if that doesn’t happen.

“Certainly we’re hoping that he will be back with us,” Greenblatt said of Trump. But if he isn’t, “we will bring the show back and have someone else at the head of the boardroom table. … (Celebrity Apprentice) is too strong a franchise for us not to consider that.” Greenblatt wouldn’t discuss whom they have in mind as a replacement for Trump, only saying that it would be someone who is “confident and galvanizing.”

As for Sunday Night Football, “we feel pretty good about where we are with the NFL and “pretty optimistic that football will be there,” Greenblatt said. “Worst-case scenario, (the season) will be delayed by a few weeks.” NBC is already working on “high-quality, live entertainment reality-type shows that would fill the gap,” Greenblatt said. He wouldn’t elaborate, only noting that they are “attention-getting big ideas” and that NBC will air the specials elsewhere on the schedule if there is no delay to the football season.

Other tidbits from the NBC call: Read More »

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