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31 July 2008 4:20 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Hulk Hogan's son, Nick Bollea, who is serving an eight-month sentence in Florida for reckless driving, has been moved to a minimum-security facility where "it's much better," Hogan tells People exclusively. "They moved him to the place that he should have been in the beginning," says Hogan, 54, whose son was transferred out of maximum-security after turning 18 last Sunday. While he was under-age, Bollea was segregated from the rest of the prison population – at one point spending 28 days in solitary confinement because no other cell was available. "It's much better," he says. "Nick describes it as like a two-story warehouse with tables,

21 May 2008 9:40 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

While Kristi Yamaguchi was kicking butt on the ballroom floor at the Dancing with the Stars finale on Tuesday night, Laila Ali was taking a beating in the audience. The six-months pregnant season four Dancing alum tells People that her unborn son "was kicking me like crazy" during the show. That's right, Ali and her husband, former Nfl star Curtis Conway, are expecting a boy this September. "We're going to name him Curtis Muhammad. This boy is going to be an athlete, definitely," a glowing Ali said. "I'm so blessed to be having such a smooth pregnancy. No cravings, no sickness.

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3 April 2008 3:25 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Best known for laying the smack-down, Hulk Hogan showed his softer side this week in Miami Beach – splashing around with new girlfriend Jennifer McDaniel. "He's very happy," a source tells People. "He just seems very happy. His mood has changed. He's in a better place." Hogan (real name Terry Gene Bollea), 54, whose wife Linda Bollea, 46, filed for divorce in November, reportedly met McDaniel around the first of the year. And while Hogan hasn't publicized his relationship, the two are spending a lot of time together. Besides their latest frolic in south Florida (both live in the Sunshine State), the duo

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25 March 2008 10:50 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Laila Ali and her husband, former Nfl star Curtis Conway, are expecting their first child together, she confirms exclusively to Essence magazine. "I don't know yet if we are having a boy or a girl, but I'm excited that I have a life inside me that my husband and I created," Ali says in the May issue, which hits newsstands April 11. The boxing champ, who co-hosts American Gladiators, and Conway married last July in the rose garden of the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, Calif. Among the 200 guests were Laila's parents, Muhammad Ali and Veronica Porsche Anderson, along with her sister Hana Ali,

15 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The second week of ABC's Dance Wars produced solid results Monday as it averaged a 7.3 rating and an 11 share between 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., outperforming NBC's American Gladiators, which finished with a 5.8/9 in the 8:00 p.m. hour. NBC moved into first place in the 9:00 p.m. hour with its Deal or No Deal game show. A repeat of CBS's CSI: Miami at 10:00 p.m. turned out to be the highest-rated program of the night, as it scored a 10.0/16.

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14 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

NBC found itself besieged from all sides following its decision to air the Golden Globes presentation as a three-hour news special Sunday night. On the one hand, it was forced to cancel the original awards show when the Writers Guild of America threatened to picket it and when other entertainment industry unions said that they would observe the picket line. It was then attacked by numerous critics for tearing down the usual wall that exists between the operations of the entertainment and news divisions by insisting that the announcement of the winners at a news conference be covered live in primetime and that it be followed by a two-hour Dateline NBC program in which the nominees would be interviewed. (Although the biggest news about the Globes was that they had been broken by the WGA strike, the strike itself was not mentioned in any of the Dateline interviews.) NBC then failed to reach an agreement with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions that would have allowed it to broadcast the announcement of the winners exclusively. Anticipating lower ratings, it also agreed to return millions of dollars to advertisers who had purchased spots on the Globes telecast. It may not have anticipated just how low those ratings would drop. The Dateline program drew the lowest ratings of the two-hour time period, averaging a 3.2 rating and a 5 share. Viewers' reactions were probably summed up by Chicago Tribune columnist Maureen Ryan, who wrote: "No gowns? No half-drunk acceptance speeches? No thanks." The telecast of the awards announcements was only slightly higher -- pulling a 4.8/7, but still in last place. To make matters even worse, NBC's repeat of its hit American Gladiators series at 10:00 produced a minuscule 2.8/5.

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9 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The combination of football, a game show, and the two-hour return of Law and Order to Wednesday nights turned NBC, the usual fourth-place network, into last week's first-place network. The network placed six shows in the top ten, including the No. 1 telecast of the week, its Saturday telecast of the NFL playoff game between Jacksonville and Pittsburgh. Two episodes of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal also made the top ten. Not quite getting there was NBC's American Gladiators on Sunday night, which marked the season's top premiere among viewers overall and particularly among the key 18-49-year-old demographic. Also noteworthy were big numbers for CBS's 60 Minutes and a new episode of ABC's Desperate Housewives. For the week, NBC averaged a 7.1 rating and a 12 share. CBS was in second place with a 5.7/9, while ABC and Fox tied for third with a 5.3/9. The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research: 1. NBC NFL Playoff Game 2, NBC, 15.0/25; 2. NFL Playoff Pre-kickoff, NBC, 13.8/24; 3. NFL Playoff Bridge, NBC, 13.6/24; 4. AFC Wildcard Post-Game, CBS, 13.5/22; 5. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 12.0/18; 6. 60 Minutes, CBS, 11.6/18; 7. Law and Order, NBC, 8.9/14; 8. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 8.5/13; 9. Deal or No Deal (Monday), NBC, 8.2/13; 10. Deal or No Deal (Wednesday), NBC, 7.8/12; 10. Law and Order: SVU, NBC, 7.8/13.

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