Landis to miss 'Tonight Show' appearance
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Floyd Landis was set to make a triumphant post-Tour de France appearance on the "Tonight Show." Instead, the cyclist may end up as comedy fodder for host Jay Leno.
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The French Anti-Doping agency (AFLD) said on Wednesday it would not rule on Tour de France champion Floyd Landis's doping case until an American arbitration panel had announced the outcome of its own hearing.
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"Entertainment Tonight" says it won't air a video it has acquired that shows the late Heath Ledger at a Hollywood party where drugs were apparently being taken.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis will not take part in this year's race in order to concentrate on fighting doping charges on one front rather than two.
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Fans waiting outside NBC Studios for Monday's taping of "The Tonight Show" fondly remembered Johnny Carson, who ruled the program for three decades before turning it over to Jay Leno. The show was to pay tribute to Carson, who died Sunday at 79 after nearly 13 years in retirement.
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PARIS -- The French Anti-Doping Agency will rule Thursday whether to ban Floyd Landis from racing in France for up to two years after his positive doping test at the 2006 Tour de France.
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Television host Dick Clark, who  suffered a stroke last week, will miss his first New Year's Eve  television broadcast from Manhattan's Times Square in more than  three decades, his spokesman said on Monday.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis will not defend his title in July, the French anti-doping agency confirms.
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The French anti-doping agency postponed a decision Thursday on whether to suspend Tour de France winner Floyd Landis because of a positive doping test.
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NBC Nightly News has moved its Sin City edition to later this week. The show originally planned to broadcast its newscast live from the show floor on Monday.
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If "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno is having second thoughts about surrendering his job as planned, NBC doesn't share them Â at least not publicly.
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Dan Rather will probably be replaced with veteran "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer on an interim basis when Rather steps down next month as "CBS Evening News" anchor.
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LOS ANGELES -- NBC took the unusual step of announcing the next host of &quot;The Tonight Show&quot; five years before the current one retires.
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(SH) - The late night talks shows are a kind of comedic taps to the American day. NBC&#39;s &quot;The Tonight Show&quot; especially is an institution, having been with us for 50 years and having had only four hosts in that time.
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NEW YORK - Jay Leno's takeover as host of NBC's "Tonight" show in 1992 was fraught with drama and bad feelings, but he's assured the next transition will be as smooth as his nightly sign-off: "Stay tuned for Conan."   The comedian and NBC on Monday chose the 50th anniversary of the first "Tonight" show to set a special date for the 55th - when Leno will step down and Conan O'Brien becomes the fifth host of the television institution.    Announcing a transition in five years is odd for any business, let alone one that frequently plans from day-to-day, but NBC was anxious not to lose O'Brien...
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis should learn on Thursday whether he has any chance of competing in this year's race.
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Television viewers welcomed late-night hosts with open arms for their first night back at work in two months because of a writers strike. Jay Leno's "Tonight" show on NBC was seen by 7.2 million viewers, or 43 percent more than what he had been averaging this season before the strike took him off the air Nov. 5, according to national ratings supplied by Nielsen Media Research.