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UBS analyst John Janedis on Tuesday downgraded the stock of MTV's parent company, Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB), citing ongoing ratings weakness at the house that Snooki built as one of the primary obstacles for the media giant's future growth potential.

He?s not the only one with a Whitney project.

Click here to listen to Frank Ocean's debut album, Channel Orange, and learn why it's a refreshing departure from the boredom of recent pop/R&B/soul music.

With The Hunger Games movie raking in $152,535,747 in its opening weekend, Lionsgate Entertainment is looking to capitalize on the franchise in every way possible.

Chumbawamba got knocked down and they're not getting up again. The British alternative music band made the announcement on their website, Chumba.com.

The Rattler, a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio that was the world's largest when the park opened in 1992, will thrill its last riders on Aug. 5, the theme park announced Tuesday.

George Obama, who lives in a hut in Nairobi, Kenya, will be featured in 2016: Obama's America, a new anti-Obama documentary by the conservative author and tedious flame-fanner Dinesh D'Souza.

Some members of a Miami school board said Michelle Obama, who is looking to recruit volunteers Tuesday, isn't supposed to use a school for political gain.

Although Florida's school prayer bill -- technically known as an inspiration message law -- technically went into effect on Sunday, state officials say only one school district has even considered implementing the law.

The Mughal empire, which at its peak ruled a vast expanse of territory from Bengal in the east to Baluchistan in the west, was deeply influenced by Persian culture and especially its poetry.

Creator Ryan Murphy keeps leaking spoilers about the second season of American Horror Story, but we still have no idea what to expect! The latest news on the highly anticipated new season is that we have two more new characters joining.

It?s down to two.

Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony are all competing in the race to develop the most dominant brand of next-generation gaming consoles. Nintendo?s upcoming Wii U is the first of the rivaling systems to be launched, with a release date of November 2012 expected for the Wii successor.

A new player is coming to the CW's Supernatural. Fans of the long running series may have thought that Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) would be alone in the eighth season after his brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) was cast in Purgatory, but think again! Canadian actress Liane Blaban has been cast as Amelia, Sam's new love interest.

Sesame Street's Cookie Monster has put his own spin on the hit Call Me Maybe in a new video that is set to go viral.

While Jessica Simpson seemed to have the longest pregnancy in history, another singer may have the shortest.

This year, nine out of 10 of the top-grossing movies in China came from overseas. Most of those, including Men in Black 3, Battleship and The Avengers, are Hollywood blockbusters, which are apparently ruling the Chinese box office at the expense of Chinese films.

The highly anticipated film version of Fifty Shades of Grey now has two notable producers attached.

Pioneering hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. is reuniting after 10 years, choosing Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest to host their reunion in November. The surviving members of the group, Rev. Run and Darryl D.M.C. McDaniels, will headline the Texas festival, which runs from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

We love that the Vampire Diaries cast is just as excited about the upcoming fourth season as us! Cast and crew of the hit CW series have been using Twitter to tease fans with pictures and season four spoilers. The latest Vampire Diaries news comes from Michael Trevino (Tyler Lockwood) and Executive Producer Julie Plec.

Legendary Filipino comedic actor Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr., better known as Dolphy and the Philippines' King of Comedy, died Tuesday after a four-year battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83.

A newly discovered Microsoft patent filed in 2012 seems to confirm some of the details leaked last month about the company?s next-generation gaming console. The Xbox ?720,? also known as Project Durango, may have separate CPUS: one that runs games and another that runs applications.

ABC's Once Upon a Time is ready to bring out the big guns in season two. Last week we learned that Sleeping Beauty and Mulan were cast, and now this week show creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis announced that three more fairy tale characters will be showing up in Storybrooke.

Vampire Diaries fans may have thought that they'd seen the last of Klaus (body wise of course) when Alaric staked him in the season three finale. According to Jeremy's Steven McQueen, Joseph Morgan will be reprising his role as Klaus in season four of the Vampire Diaries.

Attention all Hunger Games enthusiasts - - it's time to rejoice. Another nugget of excitement has exploded now that Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will be playing the role Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Gamemaker of the 75th Hunger Games. Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire confirmed on Monday that the Oscar winner has won the role as the Head Gamemaker.

A supposed cheap shot was taken at the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, when a magazine cover was photoshopped to look like her teeth were rotting out of her mouth.The New Republic morphed Middelton's chompers into the American stereotype of Britons for a special politics and arts issue regarding the future of Britain- - clearly, the magazine doesn't think much of their former motherland's future or their dentition.

In the event that you ever wanted to walk around with your ta-ta's hanging free, you're in luck today. July 9 is national No Bra Day, as per the national No Bra Day Facebook page created by Anastasia Doughnuts.

Anthony Sedlak, a renowned chef and television host on Food Network Canada, died Friday after collapsing from an undiagnosed medical condition, Sedlak's family announced Monday. He was 29.

Americans for the Arts, Actors' Equity Association and the New York Innovate Theatre Foundation (NYIT) are just three of the groups that have been urging artists and arts enthusiasts around the country to write their local representatives and voice their opposition to cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts.