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  • Queen Latifah: Returning as Host of ‘People’s Choice Awards’

    Queen Latifah will return as host of the ‘2010 People’s Choice Awards’ ij January, and a few people of color and their respective projects will battle it out for the title of ‘People’s Choice.’

    Emmy Award-winning supermodel-turned-talk show host Tyra Banks’ daily talk show is nominated for favorite TV talk show, but she will have to beat ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ as well as ‘Chelsea Lately,’ ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ and ‘Live with Regis & Kelly.’

    LL Cool J‘s show, ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ — the newest in the popular CBS franchise — is nominated in the new TV drama category, but would have to oust ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘The Forgotten,’ ‘Mercy,’ ‘Melrose Place,’ FlashForward,’ ‘Eastwick,’ ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ ‘V,’ and ‘Three Rivers,’ for the win.

    Finally, competing for ‘New TV Comedy’ are two Fox shows the feature African-American ensembles;’The Cleveland Show,’ the animated series featuring the voices of Sanaa Lathan and Regan Preston-Gomez, and ‘Brothers’ starring former New York Giants star Michael Strahan and Darryl ‘Chill’ Mitchell. Also nominated in that category are ‘Accidentally on Purpose,’ ‘Community,’ ‘Cougar Town,’ ‘Glee,’ ‘Hank,’ ‘The Middle’ and ‘Modern Family.’

    The People’s Choice Awards will air live on Jan.6 on CBS from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

    Below is a complete list of nominees and categories:

    TV DRAMA:
    ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’
    ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
    ‘House’
    ‘Lost’
    ‘NCIS’

    TV COMEDY:
    ‘Desperate Housewives’
    ‘How I Met Your Mother’
    ‘The Big Bang Theory’
    ‘The Office’
    ‘Two and a Half Men’

    TV DRAMA ACTOR:
    Hugh Laurie
    Kiefer Sutherland
    Mark Harmon
    Matthew Fox
    Patrick Dempsey

    TV DRAMA ACTRESS:
    Anna Paquin
    Blake Lively
    Jennifer Love Hewitt
    Katherine Heigl
    Mariska Hargitay

    TV COMEDY ACTOR:
    Alex Baldwin
    Charlie Sheen
    Jim Parsons
    Neil Patrick Harris
    Steve Carell

    TV COMEDY ACTRESS:
    Alyson Hannigan
    America Ferrera
    Amy Poehler
    Eva Longoria Parker
    Tina Fey

    TV OBSESSION:
    ‘Dexter’
    ‘Gossip Girl’
    ‘The Hills’
    ‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’
    ‘True Blood’

    TV TALK SHOW:
    ‘Chelsea Lately’
    ‘Live with Regis & Kelly’
    ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’
    ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’
    ‘The Tyra Banks Show’

    TV SCI-FI FANTASY:
    ‘Heroes’
    ‘Lost’
    ‘Supernatural’
    ‘The Vampire Diaries’
    ‘True Blood’

    TV COMPETITION SHOW:
    ‘American Idol’
    ‘Dancing With the Stars’
    ‘Project Runway’
    ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
    ‘Survivor: Samoa’

    ANIMAL SHOW:
    ‘Animal Cops’
    ‘DogTown’
    ‘Dog Whisperer’
    ‘It’s Me or the Dog’
    ‘Rescue Ink’

    NEW TV DRAMA:
    ‘Eastwick’
    ‘FlashForward’
    ‘Melrose Place’
    ‘Mercy’
    ‘The Forgotten’
    ‘The Good Wife’
    ‘The Vampire Diaries’
    ‘Three Rivers’
    ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’
    ‘V’

    NEW TV COMEDY:
    ‘Accidentally on Purpose’
    ‘Brothers’
    ‘Community’
    ‘Cougar Town’
    ‘Glee’
    ‘Hank’
    ‘The Cleveland Show’
    ‘The Middle’
    ‘Modern Family’

     

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  • Steve Harvey: His New Wife is the Woman Who Changed His Life

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    Steve Harvey: His New Wife Is the Woman That Changed His Life
    Steve Harvey     is a changed man – and that’s largely due to the new lady in his life.

    But when it comes to his third wife, Marjorie Bridges Harvey, whom he married in June 2007, she’s not new at all. The pair met 17 years ago and dated briefly. And although the popular comedian, top-rated radio personality and best-selling author first saw the hazel-eyed beauty during a comedy club appearance in Memphis, where he declared that she would be his wife, both parties went on to build separate families.

    But they didn’t live happily ever after with their respective former spouses.

    Steve and Marjorie open up to best-selling author Denene Milner about their rekindled love and newfound happiness in the December edition of Essence magazine, which officially arrives on newsstands Nov. 12.
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    “You’re looking at two people who were messing up for real and making bad decisions without conferring with God,” he shared. “But the fact that you can mess up that many times and still come out okay is a testament to just the grace and mercy of God, man. He took us all the way around the block, halfway around the world, and we got back to each other.”

    The missus, who has three children from her previous marriage, told a candid story about how one of ‘The Original Kings of Comedy’ almost let her slip through his fingers after reconnecting; one night, he accepted a phone call from another woman in front of her.

    “I was just at a point where I was like, ‘If what you want is the same thing as what I want, then great. But if it’s not, it doesn’t make you wrong and me right or vice versa. It just means we’re not in the same place,’” she recalled. “What I’m not going to do is sit here and be in something where I’m not happy and not getting what I want. I wasn’t afraid to walk away.”

    Harvey snapped into shape in short order. He made a commitment and rose to the occasion.

    Two years later, the two are still going strong.

    “I mean, there’s not two days that go by when one of us doesn’t look at the other and say, ‘Man, you’re the best thing that ever happened to me in my entire life,’” he said.

     

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  • Content on Demand: Steve Harvey Teams Up With State Farm for Comedy Shorts

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    Steve Harvey Teams Up With State Farm

    To further expand the advancement of his media empire, Steve Harvey is teaming up with insurance giant State Farm for a series of 48 digital comedy shorts. Each short will cover various topics appealing strictly to the interest of car and home insurance consumers. And what better time to embark on his new campaign than during this week’s National Teen Driver Safety Week. Harvey takes a humorous approach at his teen’s desire for purchasing a new Cadillac Escalade.

    steve harvey“The campaign’s basic idea was to extend the Steve Harvey and State Farm brands in an unexpected yet wanted manner,” said Bob Wingo, CEO of Sanders/Wingo, the African-American advertising agency of record, which created and produced the campaign. “Everyone wants to be in social media and utilizing digital content, but to be successful as we believe this will be, it needs to be relevant.”

    “These bits are strictly entertaining,” said State Farm marketing chief Pam El. “Though they address insurance and financial services related topics, to broaden Stat Farm’s brand voice in an unexpected way, they are delivered with Steve’s unique perspective and humor.”

    You can check out Steve Harvey’s first digital comedy short here.

     

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