Reuters - USA - This here is a rather ingenious little concept bolstered by the at once self-mocking and self-important intellectual comedic sensibility that we've come to identify with Comedy Central.

"Lewis Black's Root of All Evil" has middle-aged comic treasure Lewis Black's fearless stamp all over it, showing him setting up an ersatz trial pitting various individuals and entities of popular culture against one another to determine which is the more downright wicked. In the opener, it's Oprah vs. the Catholic Church. In the second installment, it's Donald Trump vs. Viagra. The close match of the two subjects is obvious enough. Both Oprah and

E! Online - USA - Will Jane Seymour and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban be competing in the next season of Dancing with the Stars?

I hear television’s Dr. Quinn, 56, has signed on as a contestant. Seymour had been invited in seasons past, but as I was the first to report in February, she had to turn them down because of work conflicts.

Seymour was in the audience when Apolo Anton Ohno won last season’s competition in May. When asked by People magazine after the show if she wanted a turn on Dancing, Seymour said, “Oh my. I don’t know. Maybe.”

Cuban, 49, is also said to be

Blogging Stocks - USA - After reporting a disappointing decline in second-quarter earnings and sales last week, Macy's (NYSE: M) is pulling out the big guns. Donald Trump and Martha Stewart are just two among a coterie of celebrities being employed in the department-store company's $100 million advertising blitz.

New television spots for Macy's - one of which will debut on September's Emmy-Award broadcast - will also feature R&B singer Usher, Tim Gunn from Project Runway, chef Emeril Lagasse, and hip-hop mogul Sean "Puff Daddy" "P. Diddy" "Diddy" Combs.

Also on the roster as a celebrity endorser for the Cincinnati-based retailer is Jessica Simpson. Seems like a

Palm Beach Post - FL, United States - Ryan Seacrest's quest for world television domination continues.

Fox announced that the overexposed American Idol host will join the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLII in February. Seacrest, of course, will do what he does best and that's flashing those pearly whites and working those cute dimples while interviewing a host of celebs. Now that James Brown is doing his thang in God's heaven, Seacrest is the hardest working man in show business. Check it: Dude has his own radio talk show, he's quickly become the new (and younger!) Dick Clark on New Year's Eve and he lords over that little

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Kendra Todd, the first woman hired by Donald Trump as the winner of the NBC television show, The Apprentice, and a nationally recognized real estate agent and investor, will be the guest speaker Friday, July 27th at a free teleseminar presented as part of National Retirement Planning Month.

According to Bill Losey, creator of National Retirement Planning Month, and host of the teleseminar, Kendra's background in real estate investment makes her the perfect person to talk to baby boomers about real estate investing as part of their retirement fund asset allocation.

Kendra, who is host of HGTV's television show, My House Is

Reality TV World - Mansfield, MA, USA - Two months after announcing that it still wasn't sure whether it was going to renew the increasingly poorly-rated series, NBC has formally announced that Donald Trump's The Apprentice will return for a seventh edition.  However rather than featuring another group of previously unknown money-hungry Type-A personalities, The Apprentice's next edition will feature celebrities vying to be crowned Trump's "Best Business Brain."

"It's always good to be in business with [The Apprentice producer] Mark Burnett and Donald Trump," said newly-named NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio (and former reality television producer) Ben Silverman. "I am so excited to offer viewers what

Furniture World Magazine (press release) - USA - Macy’s is hosting an extra special housewarming with Donald Trump to celebrate his latest venture, a new furniture collection. Whether in a city-sized apartment or suburban oasis, the real estate mogul turned television megastar’s latest collection may provide the perfect opportunity to live like Donald Trump, for urban dwellers and suburbanites alike.

An entrepreneur known worldwide for his business expertise and classic American style, Trump has cornered the market on luxury product collections that already include menswear, accessories and super premium vodka. By launching Trump Home™ on Thursday, July 19 at Herald Square, Macy’s will become the first in the market

Home Furnishings Business - Philadelphia, PA, USA - Donald Trump unveiled a new line of office chairs at a Manhattan Staples Tuesday, and during a press conference, the billionaire couldn’t resist an urge to add another chapter to his long-running feud with Rosie O’Donnell.

Trump Office for Staples is a collection of five executive chairs said to be “inspired by the lifestyle of Donald Trump” at prices ranging from $350 to $550.

At the press event hosted by Framingham, Mass.-based Staples, Trump reportedly said, “Someone asked me how Rosie O’Donnell would like these chairs. They’re not strong enough (for her). We’d have to make them stronger.”

Trump made a similar crack

TV Squad - Santa Monica, CA, USA - Reuters is reporting that NBC and Donald Trump have agreed to bring back The Apprentice for one more season, and possibly two. During this spring's Upfronts presentation, The Apprentice was left off the NBC schedule. The network didn't officially cancel the reality show, but Donald Trump opened his big yapper and announced that he had no plans to return for another season. Then, less than two weeks later, he told Larry King that he did want another season. Since then, NBC has hired a new entertainment president and that may be the reason The Apprentice is back on the table.

According

Earthtimes.org - USA - Crying babies, fax machines going bump in the night, and suspicious neighbors have characterized Bob Glickman's and Susan Wright's home businesses for too long - but all that is going to change.

Bob and Susan are the Grand Prize Winner and Runner-Up Winner for the Second Annual "Home Office From Hell(TM)" Contest, created by Offices2Share.com (http://www.offices2share.com/) and promoted by its corporate participants, Dell and Trump University. Offices2Share.com, which helps home-based and small businesses find short-term, ready-to-use office space throughout the United States, asked entrants to share a top-10 list and video of the most compelling and humorous reasons why they needed

New York Post - New York, NY, USA - BILLIONAIRE Mark Cuban is challanging Donald Trump to a head-to-head “Apprentice” competition.

“You can go back to NBC and ask for one more season of The Apprentice,” Cuban writes on his personal blog. “Me against You.”

Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, tried his hand at an “Apprentice” knock-off show called “The Benefactor” several years ago.