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America’s Got Talent’s third-season premiere ranked as the No. 1 summer debut to date in average total viewers.

America’s Got Talent’s two-hour third-season premiere at 9PM ET/PT averaged 12.8 million total viewers and a 3.6/10 rating/share in the Adults 18-49 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research’s Fast Affiliate Live Plus Same Day ratings.

In addition to ranking as the No. 1 summer debut to date among average total viewers, America’s Got Talent’s debut broadcast also ranked as the No. 2 primetime entertainment telecast of the summer to date on any network — behind only Grey’s Anatomy’s May 22 season finale.


America’s Got Talent’s third-season premiere also tied Fox’s May 28 broadcast of So You Think You Can Dance as the No. 1 summer debut to date among Adults 18-49.

America’s Got Talent’s third-season debut grew from its first half-hour to its fourth by 29% among Adults 18-49 (3.1/9 to 4.0/11) and by 18% — or 2.1 million — average total viewers (11.5 million to 13.6 million).

Despite airing against ABC’s coverage of the NBA Finals, America’s Got Talent’s third-season premiere was the reality competition series’ third-strongest telecast ever in total viewers behind the second-season’s finale and debut.

By Joal Ryan

David Hasselhoff gets the “Hoff,” the T-shirt slogan and, oh, the elephant foot.

The long, messy split of Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach resulted finally in a dry, civil divorce settlement filed Thursday in a Los Angeles court.

Per the 23-page agreement obtained by E! News, Hasselhoff will retain his most prized possession: his Hoff-ness.

The Baywatch and Knight Rider icon keeps his several self-named business ventures, i.e., Hasselhits, Hasseltunes and Hoffstuff Productions, etc., as well as the Hoffworld-branded trademarks to his nickname, “Hoff,” and his catchphrase, “Don’t Hassel the Hoff.”

Hasselhoff also retains the intellectual property rights to more than 50 of his albums and singles, including David Hasselhoff Sings America, “Wir Zwei Allein Heut’ Nacht,” and “I Don’t Do Sex.”

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NBC has announced America’s Got Talent’s third season will premiere with a two-hour broadcast on Tuesday, June 24 at 9PM ET/PT.

Following its debut, NBC will air another America’s Got Talent two-hour broadcast on Tuesday, July 1 at 9PM ET/PT, with one-hour episodes commencing July 8 in its regular Tuesdays at 9PM ET/PT time slot.

NBC renewed America’s Got Talent last August prior to Terry Fator, a ventriloquist from Dallas, being crowned the show’s second-season champion during a live finale broadcast. America’s Got Talent’s second season was last summer’s No. 1 series, averaging 11.4 million total viewers in its Tuesdays at 8PM ET/PT time period.

America’s Got Talent’s third season is currently holding open auditions for interested applicants at the following locations and dates:

Los Angeles

Auditions: March 9 through 12
Location TBD

Tapings: March 29 through 31
Location TBD

New York

Auditions: April 5 through 7
Location TBD

Tapings : April 9 through 11
Location TBD

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Ozzy and Sharon and family are holding an estate sale to benefit the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The sale, set for Friday and Saturday, will be Web-cast live on www.auctionnetwork.com.

Asked why the family decided to sell so much of its furniture and artwork now, Sharon Osbourne told The Los Angeles Times: “Well, the kids have left, and we have a new house with completely different decor. As you get older, your tastes change.”

Osbourne said she and her rock star husband are over their “Goth phase” and have gone “more contemporary, more streamlined, stark modern and light.”

“We’re moving into simplicity, and I am trying to educate myself that less is more,” she said. “I’m a hoarder by nature, but having five storage rooms on two continents is a complete nightmare.”

Sharon Osbourne a judge on America’s Got Talent, reportedly quit her other gig as judge on the British television talent contest “X Factor” after a preshow spat with fellow panelist Dannii Minogue.

Osbourne quit live on Saturday night’s show.

Before the show, Osbourne visited Minogue’s dressing room and allegedly launched a “verbal attack” on her, The Daily Mail reported Monday

“Dannii was crying so badly she had to have her makeup redone three times. All of Sharon’s frustrations came out. Dannii tried to keep calm, but there’s not much you can do when Sharon is at full throttle. She’s been jealous of Dannii getting all the attention and publicity ever since she was brought on to the show,” a source told The Sun newspaper.

There was no sign of the fight when the first live results show began Saturday. However, Osbourne later walked off, stating, “I’m out, gone.”

The Daily Mail cited sources who said Osbourne’s decision to quit the show may also have stemmed from the fact the acts she has championed were not popular with voters.

A spokeswoman for the ITV1 show said, “We’ve not heard from her, and we don’t know if she’s going to be back.”

Hollywood actor and TV personality David Hasselhoff says he is “doing good” after a recent alcohol relapse and subsequent hospitalization, People.com reported.

Hasselhoff, who starred in the TV shows “Baywatch,” “Knight Rider” and “America’s Got Talent,” issued a statement in May admitting he was battling alcoholism.

“I’m doing good,” he told the magazine Wednesday.

“It’s one of those things, it’s one day at a time,” he said of his relapse earlier this month. “I was doing great, and it just happened, and it took me 24 hours, and I just said: ‘You know what? Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!’ The little brain says that it’s OK, but it’s not OK, and that’s what it’s all about.”

America’s Got Talent judge, David Hasselhoff has been treated for alcohol poisoning at a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ.com said Wednesday.

The Web site cited sources who said Hasselhoff checked himself into Cedars-Sinai Hospital after a drinking binge. He has since checked out and his representative said he is doing fine.

Hasselhoff starred on the TV shows “Baywatch” and “Knight Rider” and can now be seen as a panelist on “America’s Got Talent.”

Although he has physical custody of his children, sources told TMZ.com they have been living full-time with Hasselhoff’s ex-wife, Pamela Bach, for two months while Hasselhoff had been in Romania shooting “Anaconda 3.”

It is unclear how is relapse might affect the custody arrangement.

The former couple is due back in mediation Thursday, TMZ.com said.

David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife has agreed to move out of the home she shared with the “America’s Got Talent judge while her lawyers work on a financial settlement in their divorce, the actor’s lawyer said.

Melvin S. Goldsman said Pamela Bach notified his office Wednesday that she plans to move out of the San Fernando Valley home by Oct. 1.

The agreement came two days after Bach pleaded with Superior Court Judge Mark A. Juhas to delay the trial concerning her request for additional financial support from Hasselhoff.

She told the judge her lawyers needed more time to review Hasselhoff’s financial documents.

Juhas said he could not find legal grounds to grant the request to delay the trial beyond Oct. 1, but agreed to do so if she left the home so Hasselhoff could move back in with the couple’s two daughters.

Hasselhoff has sole legal and primary physical custody of the girls.

Goldsman had opposed delaying the trial, which he said has already cost Hasselhoff $1 million in attorneys’ fees for himself and Bach.

Hasselhoff and Bach were married in December 1989. He filed for divorce in January 2006 and their divorce became final that August.

Terry Fator, a 42-year-old singing ventriloquist from Dallas, TX, won America’s Got Talent’s during last night’s live finale broadcast of the NBC reality talent competition.

“Thank you America, thank you so much America,” Fator said after a final celebratory performance that followed America’s Got Talent host Jerry Springer’s announcement that home viewers had voted Fator the show’s second-season winner.

As America’s Got Talent 2’s winner, Fator received a $1,000,000 prize and the show’s “Best New Act In America” title.

After revealing Fator’s victory, Springer also revealed that Fator would also be receiving one more “surprise” prize. “We’ve got one more surprise for you,” Springer told Fator. “We know your dream is to play Las Vegas, [so] we’re going to make that dream come true. You’re going to be playing the Jubilee Theater at Bally’s Resort.”

The solid ratings enjoyed by “Last Comic Standing” and “America’s Got Talent” have earned both unscripted NBC series a renewal from the U.S. TV network.

With the two series enjoying a successful summer in terms of ratings, NBC executives decided to renew “Comic” for a sixth season and give “Talent” a third season to find unknown stars, Variety reported.

“Both of these innovative series have proven to be summer staples and important franchises for NBC,” network alternative programming exec Craig Plestis said.

“Comic” has averaged an audience of 6.7 million viewers during its run, while “Talent” has enjoyed greater success with an average audience of 12.1 million viewers.

The series’ ratings were solidified this summer through massive makeovers of their base concepts, Variety said.

Each series was given new hosts to introduce their featured amateur performers and new judges to determine the season’s final winners.