NBC’s coverage of Saturday’s Belmont Stakes was watched by 7.67 million viewers, despite the 11th hour retirement of Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another.

The Belmont, which was won by Union Rags, was up 12 percent compared to last year’s race (6.84 million) and 62 percent compared to 2010 (4.74 million).

For NBC, Saturday’s Belmont was the best tune in for a non-Triple Crown since 2005 and the second best in Nielsen ratings history (since 1988).

Private Practice star Kate Walsh confirmed rumors about her departure from the ABC medical drama during a visit to Bethenny Frankel's new daytime talk show Bethenny.

"This is my last season for Private Practice, yes," she told Frankel during Tuesday's visit. "It's been an incredible journey and an amazing ride. It's been a long time being Addison and I feel incredibly grateful to Shonda Rhimes and all the fans. … I'm really excited about the last season."

ABC News earned five Edward R. Morrow Awards including awards for breaking news (for reporting on the assassination of Osama bin Laden), continuing coverage (for following the Gabby Giffords story including Diane Sawyer’s 20/20 interview with the Congresswoman) and hard news (for David Muir’s report on famine in Somalia).

The day after Robin Roberts revealed she has been battling a blood and bone marrow disease, the Good Morning America anchor spent time thanking well-wishers for an outpouring of support.

A&E's Coma kicks off Sept. 4.

The previously announced miniseries, from Ridley and Tony Scott, is getting a Labor Day premiere on the cable network and will conclude the following night.

Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski has found her next gig, and it's a killer.

The actress has been tapped for a multiepisode arc on Showtime's Dexter, the network said Tuesday.

Gordon Ramsay took another Monday for Fox, with NBC down from its recent America's Got Talent scores with Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. Both Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef saw 13 percent bumps from their recent Monday premieres. Hell's Kitchen brought a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49, with MasterChef just behind with a 2.6 in the demo. Altogether, the network averaged 6 million viewers and a 2.7 adults rating.

Days after having kidney surgery, Phillip Phillips is out of the hospital and back in action.

The 21-year-old singer-songwriter underwent a nearly seven-hour operation last Wednesday to remove massive kidney stones that sidelined him during his otherwise victorious run on the latest season of American Idol.

He checked out on Sunday afternoon, his rep confirms to THR.

FX's American Horror Story may have found the head of its insane asylum.

FlashForward star Joseph Fiennes is in talks to join the second season of the FX anthology series from Glee co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is back.

This time around, the Gilmore Girls creator is exploring the world of ballet with ABC Family's Bunheads, but viewers unsure of whether the Sherman-Palladino voice will resonate as strongly as it did on Gilmore Girls needn't worry. Centered on Michelle (theater vet Sutton Foster), a Las Vegas showgirl who moves to a sleepy coastal town (where there's literally nothing to do) after impulsively marrying a man (Alan Ruck) and taking on a new role as a teacher in her mother-in-law Fannie's (Kelly Bishop) dance school, the drama has hints of her DNA sprinkled throughout.

For Sherman-Palladino, Bunheads hits closer to home than Gilmore Girls and the world of Stars Hollow. "I had trained to be a dancer, and I was working on a play at the time that was based on my ballet school when I was young," she tells The Hollywood Reporter, "so I conceived this story about a 35-year-old dancer who was supposed to have gone down one path and because of immaturity and being a wild child took a left turn and 10 years down the road, realizes, 'Holy shit, I’ve thrown away everything.' "

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Sherman-Palladino talks to THR about her failed projects, what has changed the most from when she began in television and the challenges in making sure Bunheads wasn't a Gilmore Girls retread.

The Hollywood Reporter: What did you learn from the projects post-Gilmore Girls (i.e. a Wyoming pilot at the CW, The Return of Jezebel James at Fox) that didn't last that led up to Bunheads?

Amy Sherman-Palladino: The business is the business. People build whole careers and never stumble into a Gilmore Girls. The bottom line is: For a show to work all stars need to be aligned. If any one of those things is even slightly off, chances are it’s not going to work. They’re very, very, very fragile things. They were all projects that I loved. Either we got picked up by Fox and then the guy that picked us up got fired and the new guy came in. Or we tried to do a sitcom and there were many things about the multi-cam process that to me don’t work anymore. The whole multi-cam process is a very tortured one right now because people say that they want it, but I don’t know if they really want it. I would never do [multi-cam] again. That was crazy. So you know it was just not — both those things were great experiences. I enjoyed it on a creative level but it was just not the time or moment for either of them.

THR: How has television changed since you began?