Feuding friends Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's reality TV show The Simple Life has been saved, after US network E! Entertainment Television bought the programme.

British television company BSkyB and an American counterpart have found a creative way around the ban on cameras for Michael Jackson’s child-sex trial - dramatic re-enactments.

Simon Cowell is planning to create a fictionalised version of his Pop Idol reality TV talent show for US television.