&quot;Choirs&quot; clash at Christmas for NBC
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NBC is putting a new  twist on the reality singing-competition genre with &quot;Clash of  the Choirs,&quot; in which five celebrity singers go back to their  hometowns to assemble an amateur choir of everyday people.
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With Madonna urging people to see her show before criticizing her for mounting a Crucifix during one song, NBC is still wrangling over whether millions of television viewers will get that chance.
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LOS ANGELES  - Rudolph the Red-nosed  Reindeer shone for CBS on the final night of the November sweep  Wednesday, while ABC scored with its holiday-themed special  featuring married pop stars Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
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&quot;American Idol&quot; finalists Taylor  Hicks and Katharine McPhee sing for the hearts and votes of  television viewers on Tuesday in a nail-biting showdown that  pits passion against poise.
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Simmering feuds, festering grudges and dramatic showdowns are not in keeping with the Christmas spirit, but they do make for good television.
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NBC won Christmas night  with a two-hour "Deal or No Deal" that was one of only two  originals on broadcast TV.
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The showdown between writers and producers was all too apparent in NBCâs coverage of the Golden Globes.
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On his final night as anchor of &quot;NBC Nightly News,&quot; Tom Brokaw was watched by about as many people as was &quot;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&quot; on Wednesday.
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London - British pop and rock stars are planning a new version of charity song Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?, which raised huge sums for African famine relief 20 years ago, a report said on Wednesday.
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Twenty years after the all-star charity single &quot;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?&quot; raised money to provide famine relief to Ethiopia and inspired the star-studded Live Aid benefit concert, some of today&#39;s top British acts plan to record a new version of the
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It may be beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but Rich Forney is worried it sure won&#39;t sound like it. Forney, administrator of the Salvation Army&#39;s Lawrence operations, said the nonprofit&#39;s annual bell
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This weekend&#39;s Live Earth  extravaganza aims to bring awareness of global warming as well  as music to the world, and NBC Universal wants to make sure its  wall-to-wall television coverage doesn&#39;t strike a sour note.
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ABC's "Duel" was a dud, but a good-natured singing competition on NBC engaged more television viewers in the week leading up to Christmas.
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Fox's series, "The Next Great Champ," which airs on Tuesday night, has been the source of ferocious contention between Fox and NBC.
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Church leaders united Wednesday to  condemn a Christmas nativity tableau depicting soccer star  David Beckham as Joseph and his pop singer wife Victoria as the  Virgin Mary.
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A protester has attacked a controversial waxwork nativity scene featuring England soccer captain David Beckham as Joseph and his pop star wife &quot;Posh Spice&quot; Victoria as the Virgin Mary.
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Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, is favourite to have the Christmas number one with a duet with Ronan Keating.