Posts Tagged Television programs

Shrinking soaps vie for Daytime Emmy Awards

Julie Marie Berman accepts the award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for "General Hospital" at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday, June 16, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — “Days of Our Lives” won drama series honors for just the second time in 40 years at the Daytime Emmys in a rough-hewn ceremony that included more upsets and an envelope mix-up on Sunday night.

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Game 5 could be Ginobili’s last Spurs home game

A San Antonio Spurs fan arrives carrying a banner for Manu Ginobili before Game 5 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the Miami Heat, Sunday, June 16, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Win or lose, Sunday marked the final home game of this season for the Spurs. The series shifts back to Miami for Game 6 on Tuesday night, and the winner will be decided on South Beach.

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AP IMPACT: Snowden’s life surrounded by spycraft

This Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Posts to online blogs and forums, public records and interviews with Snowden’s neighbors, teachers and acquaintances reveal someone who prized the American ideal of personal freedom but became disenchanted with the way government secretly operates in the name of national security. (AP Photo/The Guardian)

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the nation’s capital, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for “No Such Agency.” But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security Agency’s looming presence was both a very visible and accepted part of everyday life.

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Morning show is latest CNN change under Zucker

This April 16, 2012 file photo shows ABC News' Chris Cuomo at the premiere of the film "Safe"  in New York. Cuomo will host CNN's "New Day" morning show premiering on Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — For anyone watching CNN, it’s been hard to miss the sunny reminders popping up on the bottom of the screen that Monday is the debut of the “New Day” morning show.

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‘Brooklyn DA’ documentary drama is behind camera

In this May 6, 2013 photo provided by CBS, a scene form a CBS documentary entitled “Brooklyn DA,” shows Michael Vecchione, left, Chief of the Rackets Division, speaking with Lawrence Oh, Assistant District Attorney, Bureau Chief, Rackets Division, at the Office of the Kings County District Attorney in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. The documentary series featuring Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes airs Tuesday, June 18, 2013, and gives viewers a look at how cases are prosecuted at one of the largest district attorney offices in the country. Hynes is running for office and his opponents say the timing of the show is unfair. (AP Photo/CBS, Craig Blankenhorn) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO ARCHIVE; NO SALES; NORTH AMERICAN USE ONLY

NEW YORK (AP) — On the CBS documentary series “Brooklyn DA,” the story line is simple: Can prosecutors put the bad guys away?

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