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‘Duck Dynasty,’ A&E make up after fan backlash

“Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson will return to work on A&E’s reality show despite his comments about gay immorality, the channel said Friday, reversing its decision to suspend him after facing a backlash and threatened boycott.

 
‘Duck Dynasty’ suspension ruffles feathers of fans

When A&E suspended “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson for disparaging gay people, it may have followed a time-honored TV tradition of quickly silencing a star who speaks his mind. But in doing so it also ruffled the feathers of possibly millions of the show’s fans.

CBS admits error in Benghazi story on ’60 Minutes’

CBS News said Friday that it was misled by a “60 Minutes” source who claimed he was on the on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya when it now turns out there are serious doubts about whether he was.

Hollywood plotlines will be tools to educate public on health care overhaul

The health care overhaul might get a Hollywood rewrite. A private foundation is providing a $500,000 grant so TV writers will have information about the Affordable Care Act stitched into plot lines watched by millions.

Dancer Lacey Schwimmer on plane grounded at LAX

Lacey Schwimmer, a pro dancer for six seasons on “Dancing With the Stars,” was on a plane grounded Friday at Los Angeles International Airport during the deadly TSA shooting.

ABC apologizes for child’s joke on Kimmel’s show

An unscripted joke that came from a child during a segment of Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show prompted a network apology. A boy joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt

In life and especially in death, JFK changed TV

It’s a measure of how long ago President John F. Kennedy died that, at the time, television was described as a young medium. With the shooting in Dallas, TV grew up.

 
Actor Tom Hanks says he has type 2 diabetes

Actor Tom Hanks has said that he has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the metabolic disease.

Kimmel, Kanye in feud over skit

A skit poking fun at West on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Tuesday provoked an irate call from the rapper about an hour and half before Thursday’s show, Kimmel said in his monologue.