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Manti Te'o has admitted that he never actually met Lennay Kekua, despite lying to his parents and briefly misleading the media on this issue, but he maintains that he spent countless nights talking to his "girlfriend" on the telephone.

"American Idol" judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey disagree on advice to a contestant causing one to walk off set.

President Obama's public swearing-in ceremony and parade may have been full of pageantry, but the inauguration wasn't much of a draw on television. About 20.6 million people tuned in to watch as Obama repeated his oath for a second term at the U.S. Capitol on Monday, according to Nielsen, the TV ratings company. That's way down from the nearly 37.8 million people who watched the nation's first black president take office in 2009.

Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o told ABC News' Katie Couric that he had lied to keep up a hoax involving a nonexistent dying girlfriend once he learned he had been duped two days before the Heisman Trophy winner was announced.

The NFL averaged 44.9 million total viewers for its two conference championship games on Sunday, which was down 16% from last year and continued a trend that has gone on all postseason.

In Fox’s series “The Following” Kevin Bacon plays a burned-out former F.B.I agent brought out of retirement to hunt followers of a serial killer.

Best bets: A creepy new TV series, engrossing police drama, and yet another red-carpet awards show are our picks for the best in entertainment this week.

Lance Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, reversing more than a decade of denial.

The cable channel benefited from Lance Armstrong’s confessional interview and a deal to collect subscriber fees from some of the country’s biggest satellite and cable operators.

"Two and a Half Men" star Angus T. Jones is no Charlie Sheen. After a video of the young actor blasting the comedy as "filth" and urging viewers to stop watching surfaced in November, the question arose as to whether CBS and Warner Bros. would want Jones back. The answer: Yes.