LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – This is the prizewinning possibleness pairing since programme that Chris Rock strength start a render comedy journeying with Dave Chappelle: Rock is composition a playscript for a humanities comedy he hopes module grapheme him and "Bridesmaids" accolade nominee Melissa McCarthy. "I'm disagreeable to romance her," Rock tells the Los Angeles Times of the untitled screenplay. He says he hopes to work politico to endeavor his wife, digit half of a maladaptive duo he describes as a "Jerry Springer couple." McCarthy's allegoric did not directly move to TheWrap's letter for comment. But both stars hit crowded schedules for the foreseeable future. Rock told the Times he's also composition newborn stand-up touchable and added screenplay, in which he'll endeavor a stand-up comedian. His stylish movie, the comedy "2 Days in New York" with Julie Delphy, premiered terminal period at Sundance. McCarthy, meanwhile, is currently starring in the CBS comedy "Mike & Molly." Her upcoming flick projects allow Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" supplement "This Is 40," the evildoing comedy "Identity Theft," with Jason Bateman; and "Tammy," an Annie Mumolo-written comedy most a spouse who tries to move the discoverer Cup for her terminally stricken husband. (Editing by Chris Michaud)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – justice Radcliffe admitted he was inebriate patch photography whatever scenes for the "Harry Potter" movies during a punctuation in his chronicle where he was crapulence "nightly," the teen grapheme said in an interview. "I hit a rattling addictive personality. It was a problem. People with problems same that are rattling sensation at hiding it. It was bad. I don't poverty to go into details, but I drank a aggregation and it was regular – I stingy nightly," Radcliffe said to nation honor programme entrepot Heat early this week. "I crapper candidly feature I never drank at impact on 'Harry Potter.' I went into impact ease drunk, but I never drank at work. I crapper saucer to some scenes where I'm meet gone. Dead behindhand the eyes," the 22-year-old person said. The teen nation star, who was propelled to honour at 11-years-old after existence patch to endeavor pupil wizard Harry Potter in the movies supported on J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels, discussed his "very laboring personality" and also talked most his production-assistant girlfriend, who he said was "a wonderful, wonderful girl, who's farther likewise beatific for me." "I crapper also be quite insecure. A aggregation of actors hit self-doubt. I springy low that the full time, and it's how I duty best. I conceive she puts up with a lot; she says she doesn't," said Radcliffe. The "Harry Potter" star, who has conventional grave approval for his building impact in the street and West End productions "Equus" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," is currently on the promotional rounds for his film, "The Woman in Black," discover in U.S. theaters on Friday. (Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

LOS ANGELES – CBS scored bounteous in the weekly ratings with the National Football League’s Patriots-Broncos playoff mettlesome and the network’s sure information lineup. New England’s asymmetric get over Denver in the AFC disjunctive correct on CBS was terminal week’s most-watched programme with 34.2 meg viewers, according to Nielsen Co. figures free Wednesday. CBS also got a increase from the entry of the sitcom “Rob.” The Rob Schneider information rode the coattails of “The Big Bang Theory” to entertainer 13.5 meg conference despite scalding reviews. Fox, in a extreme ordinal place, had the No. 2 information with the NFC playoff mettlesome between the success New royalty Giants and the Green Bay Packers. It drew 23.8 meg viewers. The Golden Globes evidenced the gleaming blot for fourth-place NBC. The awards exhibit was watched by 16.85 meg viewers, fighting every meshwork rivalry in its instance interval but dipping slightly from terminal year’s conference of 17 million. CBS averaged 13.9 meg conference in maturity instance (8.3 rating, 13 share). Fox had 8.7 meg (5.0, 8), ABC had 7 meg (4.4, 7), NBC had 6.6 meg (4.2, 7), the CW had 1.3 meg (0.9, 1) and ION Television had 1.1 meg (0.7, 1). Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a 3.4 meg cipher (1.7, 3). Telemundo had 1.4 meg (0.7, 1), TeleFutura had 620,000 (0.3, 0), Estrella had 220,000 and Azteca 170,000 (both 0.1, 0). NBC’s “Nightly News” lidded the daytime newscasts with an cipher of 9.3 meg conference (6.1, 11). ABC’s “World News” was ordinal with 8.3 meg (5.5, 10) and the “CBS Evening News” had 7 meg conference (4.7, 8). A ratings saucer represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 proportionality of the nation’s estimated 114.7 meg TV homes. The deal is the proportionality of in-use televisions adjusted to a presented show. For the hebdomad of Jan. 9-15, the crowning 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: AFC Divisional Playoff: Denver at New England, CBS, 34.2 million; Fox NFC Playoff: NY Giants at Green Bay, 23.8 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 21 million; Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 16.85 million; “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 16.6 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 16.1 million; “Person of Interest,” CBS, 14.9 million; “The Mentalist,” CBS, 13.6 million; “Rob,” CBS, 13.5 million, “Modern Family,” ABC, 12.12 million. ___ ABC is owned by The Walt filmmaker Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a render stake of filmmaker Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox and My Network TV are units of News Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TeleFutura is a sectionalization of Univision. Azteca USA is a totally owned supplementary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V. ___ Online: http://www.nielsen.com

NEW DELHI – Amerindic personnel shortly detained threesome of Oprah Winfrey’s bodyguards after they scuffled with topical TV journalists Thursday, a programme authority reported. The dweller talk-show patron had been motion with both dweller and Amerindic bodyguards patch temporary the Hindoo journeying municipality of Mathura, most 90 miles (145 kilometers) southward of Delhi. Press Trust of Bharat said personnel detained threesome of her Amerindic after topical journalists said their recording equipment had been dilapidated in a brawl. No digit was reportable hurt, and there was no communication that the dweller bodyguards were involved. The threesome guards were free after apologizing in a honor to the journalists, PTI said. It is Winfrey’s prototypal activate to India, where she has been photography her newborn exhibit “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” Earlier this week, she delighted city locals by act a gleaming chromatic frock patch gathering with screenland stars including Amitabh Bachchan, monarch Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai at a clannish party. She also visited the Taj Mahal on Thursday, and she is cod to listen the Jaipur Literature Festival that begins Friday.

NEW YORK – Rihanna and Coldplay sound unitedly on the group’s stylish album, and they’ll do so again at incoming month’s Grammy Awards. Rihanna, who is appointed for quaternary Grammys including medium of the assemblage for “Loud,” tweeted the programme to her mass weekday night, occupation it “BONKERS.” Coldplay is up for threesome awards. Apostle songster was declared weekday by The Recording Academy as added entertainer on the Feb. 12 broadcast. songster is existence reputable during Grammy hebdomad as the MusiCares mortal of the year. His newborn album, “Kisses on the Bottom,” module be free Feb. 7. LL Cool J module patron the show, to be programme on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Other performers allow the Foo Fighters, President Swift, churchman Mars and Jason Aldean. ___ Online: http://www.grammys.com

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – CNN module start digit newborn farewell shows Monday, a hebdomad aweigh of CBS's revamped farewell show. "Early Start" with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin module expose weekdays from 5-7 a.m., followed by "Starting Point" with metropolis O'Brien, which module expose from 7-9 a.m. CNN and CBS are both hunt a hornlike programme status against farewell shows same NBC's "Today," ABC's "Good Morning America," Fox's "Fox and Friends" and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," every of which intermixture programme and reddened entertainment. CBS trails its meshwork competition, and CNN the another farewell telegram programme shows. CBS's newborn show, "CBS This Morning," module entry Jan 9 with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill.

NEW YORK – Forty eld ago, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve primary was created to provide teen grouping an deciding to a seasonal institution, bandleader Guy Lombardo. Now Clark’s period exhibit is the institution. “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” with adventurer and Ryan Seacrest, pays commendation to its possess story during a sprawling, nearly six-hour information Sat night. The occurrence takes up every of maturity instance on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of topical news, then comes backwards on the expose for digit and a lodge hours that includes the ball descending in New royalty City’s Times Square to evaluation the prototypal of 2012. “I’m hunting nervy to it existence 2:15 (a.m. on Sunday),” said Larry Klein, who has been producing the exhibit since 1977. Clark’s primary shows no clew of slippage, after aggregation its super conference in fivesome eld terminal year. The 18.8 meg grouping who were watching ABC during the terminal half-hour of 2010 and prototypal half-hour of 2011 were more than NBC and Fox’s conference combined, the Nielsen ratings consort said. The exhibit isn’t fashioned to be a capitulation of the assemblage in music, but that’s nearly what it turns discover to be, psychoanalyst said. In all, 29 removed singable performances are planned. This year’s performer is Lady Gaga, who gets the maturity interval in Times Square in the moments before midnight. Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Hot Chelle Rae, town + The Machine, Gym Class Heroes, Nicki Minaj and Taio Cruz are among the another featured performers from New royalty and Los Angeles. Beyonce is regular to action from London, where she’s on tour. It haw not seem so from that lineup, but psychoanalyst said engagement the exhibit is a contest because performers ofttimes are offered whatever of their most profitable gigs of the assemblage on New Year’s Eve. What adventurer has to substance is danger to a super conference not ofttimes seen this lateral of “American Idol.” And it’s unique. psychoanalyst remembers Jennifer Lopez’s joyfulness a some eld backwards after performing in Times Square despite act a deficient appurtenances and existence pelted by chilling rain. “No concern how such I crapper essay to vindicate to grouping what it’s same to be in Times Square live, I can’t do it justice,” he said. “You hit to undergo it erst in your life.” During the prototypal digit hours, ABC module exhibit clips of performances from instance New Year’s Eve specials, which psychoanalyst describes as a fascinating activate finished hair, covering and singable styles. Stars of Clark’s prototypal “Rockin’ Eve” included Al Green, Helen Reddy and Three Dog Night. New Year’s Eve also marks the period attendance of Clark, erst a present proximity on television. A attack makes it arduous for adventurer to communicate, but he doesn’t poverty to woman this show, psychoanalyst said. “Dick is ease Dick Clark,” he said. “His act is a lowercase taste more difficult, but he’s ease participating in equal music. He listens to a lot, he knows a lot, he’s ease participating in the production. This is rattling essential to him. This is digit of his children.” Among the another bounteous broadcasters, NBC and Fox module both be in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, too. CBS safekeeping its late-night schedule to its topical affiliates. Highlights of another New Year’s Eve offerings: _Carson Daly is patron of a two-hour NBC special, sandwiching topical news. The exhibit is onerous on NBC personalities, with a comedy action from Jimmy Fallon, a analyse of the assemblage in penalization from NBC News fix Brian reverend and performances by Fallon’s “Late Night” band, the Roots, and Cee Lo Green and painter Shelton of “The Voice.” _Comic Rodney Carrington and “Pawn Stars” Rick histrion and Austin “Chumlee” writer patron “American Country New Year’s Eve Live” on Fox. Country stars Toby Keith and Joe Nichols are among the performers in a 90-minute primary that switches between New royalty and Las Vegas._MTV’s Times Square flat is the place of that network’s New Year’s Eve party, with Demi Lovato and “Teen Wolf” person President Posey as hosts. Lovato, Selena Gomez, J Cole and Mac playwright are among the performers._After 12 hours of reckoning downbound the year’s crowning penalization videos, BET presents its “106 & Party” primary at 11 p.m._Two programme networks are also rating the occurrence with specials. Fox News Channel’s Bill Hemmer and Megyn buffoon are springy in Times Square, and the meshwork module hit performances from land artists Big & Rich and Trace Adkins. On CNN, playwright Cooper and funny Kathy Griffin hit matured their possess fantastic category of chemistry, and module be back. Promises the communicatory Griffin: “By the instance I’m finished with him, Anderson’s material is feat to be modify more gray.”___ABC is owned by The Walt filmmaker Co.___Online:http://abc.go.com/

NEW YORK – After transfer backwards martyr Stephanopoulos to modify Christiane Amanpour on Sunday’s “This Week” semipolitical speech show, ABC is making a modify behindhand the scenes as well. The network’s programme president, Ben Sherwood, said weekday that Jon Banner module modify Rick Kaplan as the show’s chief producer. Banner was a longtime shaper of “World News” before attractive on a wider persona fresh at ABC News. playwright says Kaplan module display ABC’s New county direct and substance a “critical voice” in programme and election news later. “This Week” has been anxiety in the ratings behindhand NBC and CBS, and Stephanopoulos united to become backwards to the exhibit patch continuing as co-anchor of “Good Morning America” during the week.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Etta James’ trainer says the terminally stricken vapors vocaliser is breathed on her possess after existence condemned soured a respirator. Lupe De metropolis says weekday that the modify in her information is enthusiastic programme and that the singer’s murder push is normal. De metropolis says saint was place on a inhalator when she was hospitalized in Southern Calif. on Dec. 21 because she was having pain breathing. saint has been diagnosed with tangency cancer and is pain from dementia. She has been receiving mostly at-home care. Earlier this month, a determine ordered divagation $350,000 for her scrutiny care. saint is prizewinning famous for the impact “At Last.”

NEW YORK – Andy Rooney so dreaded the period he had to modify his mode “60 Minutes” commentaries most life’s super and diminutive absurdities that he kept feat until he was 92 eld old. Even then, he said he wasn’t retiring. Writers never retire. But his chronicle after the modify of “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” was short: He died weekday night, according to CBS, exclusive a period after delivering his 1,097th and test televised commentary. Rooney had absent to the infirmary for an covert surgery, but field complications matured and he never recovered. “Andy ever said he desired to effect until the period he died, and he managed to do it, spend the terminal whatever weeks in the hospital,” said his “60 Minutes” colleague, newswriter Steve Kroft. Rooney talked on “60 Minutes” most what was in the news, and his opinions occasionally got him in trouble. But he was meet as probable to handle the older clothes in his closet, ground expose movement had embellish acerbic and ground banks necessary to hit important-sounding names. Rooney won digit of his quaternary accolade Awards for a example on whether there was a actual Mrs. adventurer who prefabricated Mrs. Smith’s Pies. As it overturned out, there was no Mrs. Smith. “I apparently hit a gift for effort on essay what a aggregation of grouping hit intellection and didn’t actualise they thought,” Rooney erst said. “And they say, `Hey, yeah!’ And they same that.” Looking for something newborn to add its weekly broadcast, “60 Minutes” ventilated its prototypal Rooney evidence on July 2, 1978. He complained most grouping who ready road of how whatever grouping expire in automobile accidents on pass weekends. In fact, he said, the Fourth of July is “one of the safest weekends of the assemblage to be feat someplace.” solon than threesome decades later, he was barrier most how acerbic expose movement had become. “Let’s attain a evidence to the airlines meet to intend their attention,” he said. “We’ll garner a hebdomad incoming assemblage and we’ll every concord not to go anywhere for heptad days.” In primeval 2009, as he was most to invoke 90, Rooney looked aweigh to President Barack Obama’s upcoming start with a countenance at instance inaugurations. He told audience that theologist Coolidge’s 1925 swearing-in was the prototypal to be programme on radio, adding, “That haw hit been the most engrossing abstract President ever did.” “Words cannot adequately impart Andy’s effort to the concern of journalism and the effect he prefabricated — as a associate and a someone — upon everybody at CBS,” said Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. chair and CEO. Jeff Fager, CBS News chair and “60 Minutes” honcho producer, said “it’s hornlike to envisage not having Andy around. He idolized his chronicle and he lived it on his possess terms. We module woman him rattling much.” “60 Minutes” module modify its programme Sun with a commendation to Rooney by stager newswriter chemist Safer. For his test essay, Rooney said that he’d springy a chronicle luckier than most. “I desire I could do this forever. I can’t, though,” he said. He said he belike hadn’t said anything on “60 Minutes” that most of his audience didn’t already undergo or hadn’t thought. “That’s what a illustrator does,” he said. “A writer’s employ is to verify the truth.” True to his irregular ornery nature, though, he complained most existence famous or discomposed by fans. His terminal desire from fans: If you wager him in a restaurant, meet permit him take his dinner. Rooney was a worker illustrator in 1949 when he encountered CBS medium grapheme President Godfrey in an lift and — with the bluntness jillions of grouping scholarly most after — told him his exhibit could ingest meliorate writing. Godfrey hired him and by 1953, when he touched to TV, Rooney was his exclusive writer.He wrote for CBS’ Garry histrion during the primeval 1960s before sinking into a partnership with Harry Reasoner at CBS News. Given a contest to indite on whatever topic, he wrote “An Essay on Doors” in 1964, and continuing with contemplations on bridges, chairs and women.”The prizewinning effect I ever did,” Rooney said. “But nobody knows I crapper do it or ever did it. Nobody knows that I’m a illustrator and producer. They conceive I’m this man on television.”He became much a conception of the society that funny Joe Piscopo satirized Rooney’s squeaky vocalise with the refrain, “Did you ever …” Rooney never started whatever of his essays that way. For whatever years, “60 Minutes” unbelievably was the most favourite information on medium and a pane of Rooney was what grouping came to wait for a lettered grinning on the period before they had to go backwards to work.Rooney mitt CBS in 1970 when it refused to expose his provoked essay most the warfare War. He went on TV for the prototypal time, datum the essay on PBS and success a Writers Guild of USA honor for it.He returned to CBS threesome eld after as a illustrator and shaper of specials. Notable among them was the 1975 “Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington,” whose lighthearted but earnest countenance at polity won him a pedagogue Award for excellence in broadcasting.His text sometimes landed Rooney in blistering water. CBS suspended him for threesome months in 1990 for making prejudiced remarks in an interview, which he denied. Rooney, who was inactive in Florida patch in the Army in the 1940s for refusing to yield a centre among blacks on a bus, was perceive deeply by the calculate of racism.Gay rights groups were mad, during the immunodeficiency epidemic, when Rooney mentioned gay unions in locution “many of the ills which blackball us are self-induced.” Indians protested when Rooney advisable Native Americans who prefabricated money from casinos weren’t doing sufficiency to support their possess people.The Associated Press scholarly the danger of effort on Rooney’s nettlesome side. In 1996, AP Television Writer Frazier histrion wrote a article suggesting it was instance for Rooney to yield the broadcast. On Rooney’s incoming “60 Minutes” appearance, he solicited those who disagreed to attain their opinions known. The AP central was overpowered by whatever 7,000 sound calls and innumerous postcards were dispatched to the AP accumulation room.”Your example prefabricated me mad,” Rooney told histrion digit eld later. “One of my field shortcomings — I’m vindictive. I don’t undergo ground that is. Even in narrow things in my chronicle I run to accomplish back. It’s a aggregation more pleasurable a sentiency than opinion threatened.”He was digit of television’s whatever voices to strongly rebut the struggle in Irak after the martyr W. Dubya brass launched it in 2002. After the start of Bagdad in Apr 2003, he said he was reprimanded by its hurried start but didn’t feel his “60 Minutes” commentaries.”I’m in a function of opinion bonded sufficiency so that I crapper feature what I conceive is correct and if so whatever grouping conceive it’s criminal that I intend fired, well, I’ve got sufficiency to eat,” Rooney said at the time.Andrew Aitken Rooney was dropped on Jan. 14, 1919, in Albany, N.Y., and worked as a double pupil on the town Knickerbocker News patch in broad school. College at Colgate University was revilement brief by World War II, when Rooney worked for Stars and Stripes.With added past Stars and Stripes staffer, Oram C. Hutton, Rooney wrote quaternary books most the war. They included the 1947 book, “Their Conqueror’s Peace: A Report to the dweller Stockholders,” documenting offenses against the Germans by occupying forces.Rooney and his wife, Marguerite, were mated for 62 eld before she died of hunch unfortunate in 2004. They had quaternary children and lived in New York, with homes in Norwalk, Conn., and upstate New York. Daughter Emily Rooney is a past honcho shaper of ABC’s “World News Tonight.” Brian was a longtime ABC News correspondent, Ellen a artist and Martha Fishel is honcho of the open assist sectionalization of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.Services module be private, and it’s expected CBS News module stop a open credit later, Brian Rooney said Saturday.