More viewers may have tuned into "The Walking Dead" season finale Sunday night; however, when it comes to most pirated television series, HBO's "Game of Thrones" takes the crown.

The season three premiere became the most pirated episode of television ever on file sharing site Bittorrent with more than 320,000 users sharing the episode, according to TorrentFreak.

What other series make up the most pirated shows? 

"The Walking Dead" makes the cut, but it's not as high up on the list as you may think.

TorrentFreak compiled the most downloaded television series by episode on BitTorrent for the past year.

10. "Revolution": 2.1 million downloads per episode.

Network: NBC

Viewers week of 3/29: 6.7 million

9. "Fringe": 2.28 million downloads per episode.

Network: Fox

3.2 million viewers tuned in for the series finale in January.

8. "House": 2.3 million downloads per episode.

Network: Fox

8.7 million viewers tuned in for the series finale in May 2012.

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• Roger Ebert is taking a "leave of presence" after a recurrence of cancer. "I'll be able at last to do what I've always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review," Ebert wrote on his website. "So on bad days I may write about the vulnerability that accompanies illness. On good days, I may wax ecstatic about a movie so good it transports me beyond illness." Ebert also announced that he will purchase his popular website Rogerebert.com from the Sun-Times' owners and relaunch the site. He is also launching a Kickstarter campaign to  bring "At the Movies" back to TV.
• Angelina Jolie and Lady Gaga are the latest victims of the celebrity hackers who had already exposed the supposed financial secrets of Michelle Obama and Beyonce.
• Jim Henson's wife and partner in the Muppets enterprise, Jane Henson, died of cancer on Tuesday at age 78. The Hensons met in a puppetry class in the middle of the fifties; they married in 1959 and had five children. Though the two separated in 1986, they remained close for the final four years of Jim Henson's life.
• Dreamworks has acquired film rights to the story of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up of its pedophile priests in Massachusetts as uncovered during a yearlong investigation by the Boston Globe.
• Kate Hudsonadmits her second pregnancy was a surprise, considering she gave birth to son Bingham just eight weeks after she starting seeing Muse rocker Matt Bellamy, who is now her fiancé. “[It] was all very old-fashioned and proper and we went on lovely dates,” Hudson says jokingly. “And two months later I was pregnant… Well, yes [I was shocked], but I also thought: ‘This is going to be interesting.’”
• Will Arnett joins Megan Fox in the CGI-slash-live-action project "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." "Arnett’s role is being kept secret, though still uncast from the Ninja Turtles mythology are Splinter, the turtles' sensei rat, and the villainous and masked Shredder,"
• Singer Ryan Cabrera has a tattoo of Ryan Gosling's face on his leg.
• Lindsay Lohanshowed off her bikini and bruises while hanging at the beach in Brazil by herself.
• Bradley Cooper gets a perm and Reese Witherspoon dyed her trademark blonde hair brown.

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Khloe Kardashian is fighting back at allegations of misconduct by her husband Lamar Odom’s charity, Cathy’s Kids.

On Sunday, ESPN show "Outside the Lines" accused the Clippers player and reality TV star of misusing funds raised by the organization, and failing to give money to cancer causes as promised in its mission statement.

The charity was started in 2004 and named after Odom’s mom, who died from stomach cancer, but the sports network claims it was more than $250,000 in debt as of 2011.

During the "Outside the Lines" report, Odom mysteriously stated "It's my money," and now Kardashian is trying to clear up his comment by revealing her husband personally contributed "more than 90% of the money raised by the foundation."

Kardashian took to her blog Tuesday to defend her man and his charity. Read her explanation below:

Lamar’s Work With Cathy’s Kids

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Fans are used to seeing "The Walking Dead" crew solemn, serious, and killing zombies, so seeing them out of character, rocking out and playing around on set is a surprising treat.

Following the series finale of the AMC series Sunday night, actress Laurie Holden, who plays Andrea, tweeted out the following image with the cast from the show.

The set looks like a blast to work on.

twitter.com/Lueberschlag/s… Family Forever.

— Laurie Holden (@Laurie_Holden) April 1, 2013

Unless you get to see the cast at a live panel, it's pretty rare for a fan to see them all together on and off set.

Here's a bigger look at the image:

This second image of Holden with David Morrissey who plays the villainous Governor comes a close second.

I am trying... @davemorrissey64twitter.com/Laurie_Holden/…

— Laurie Holden (@Laurie_Holden) March 26, 2013

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The hottest new attraction in the United Kingdom these days is not a royal palace or some rocks in a field.

It's the studio in Leavesden where Warner Bros. spent ten years making the Harry Potter movies.

A converted factory that was once used to make planes in World War II, Leavesden is still a working studio. But a big portion of it has been transformed into a gigantic show-and-tell Harry Potter sound stage exhibit.

About 5,000 people a day make the trek to Leavesden, which is a half-hour northwest of London. They pay about $30 apiece to get in.

That means that Warner is coining ~$50 million a year from Harry Potter studio tours from ticket prices alone.

(And you're not going to leave with just a ticket — believe me.)

My family is way into Harry Potter, and we were in London last week. So, of course, we went.

It was awesome.

The tour starts with a shuttle bus that picks you up at the Watford Junction train station. The one that picked us up came roaring in so fast it almost ran over my daughter. (Phew!)

Every train that comes to Watford is full of Harry Potter fans. They come from everywhere — even New Zealand. Some have scars painted on their foreheads and round glasses on their heads.

Warner Bros takes the opportunity to show you some upcoming movie trailers on the bus, of course. But in 20 minutes, you're there.

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First Lady Michelle Obama swooned over movie star Harrison Ford during a White House screening of the Jackie Robinson biopic "42" Tuesday night, telling attendees that she was "tripping out" over meeting the film's famous silver fox. 

"I want to thank Harrison Ford – I've wanted to say that for a while," Obama said during remarks after the screening. "You think you trip because I'm here — I'm tripping out because he's here." 

Watch the video below, courtesy of Now This News: 

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If you're the ultimate Marvel fanboy, Disney and Marvel have released an epic 10-disc Blu-ray collection.  

Featuring every Marvel film from "Iron Man" up until "The Avengers," the $219 limited edition set comes boxed in a briefcase with the logo of S.H.I.E.L.D., the secret intelligence agency of the Marvel universe. 

If you already have all of the films on Blu-ray, the real appeal to the set — other than getting your very own S.H.I.E.L.D. briefcase and (fake) spy documents –  is some bonus footage from upcoming releases.   

Here's what's inside:  

• A glowing Tesseract prop from "Thor" and "The Avengers."
• "The Avengers" on Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray.
• "Captain America: The First Avenger" on Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray.
• "Thor" Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
• "The Incredible Hulk" on Blu-ray.
• "Iron Man" on Blu-ray.
• "Iron Man 2" on Blu-ray.
• A bonus disc featuring deleted and extended scenes, along with content from upcoming sequels to "Thor," "Captain America," "Iron Man," and upcoming movies "Ant-man" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."

There are also some "classified" documents featuring images of the tesseract ...

… a file on Captain America …

… and another on Bruce Banner (The Hulk).

If you want an extended look at what's inside, IGN gave a full look at the collector's set.

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Last year, we told you about the real brands that have appeared in Mad Men and the fake ads that the staff of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce have created for them over the years.

Since then, a whole new bunch of clients have come and gone at Don Draper's agency.

So in advance of the premiere of Mad Men Season 6 on AMC this Sunday, we have once again trawled the agency's archives to compare the fake ads of Sterling Cooper vs. the ones that actually ran back in the 1960s.

Those clients include Playtex, Mohawk Airlines, American Airlines and Samsonite luggage.

Turns out the fictional ads are vastly different from the real ones — and that Sterling Cooper's are often better. Hindsight is 20/20, of course ...

Sterling Cooper's Belle Jolie lipstick ad from Season 5 ...

Belle Jolie was one of few made-up brands on the show. In reality, cosmetics companies had been using photos instead of drawings in their ads for years. This one was from 1963.

Sterling Cooper's ad for Playtex Living Gloves ...

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Everyone loves a rags-to-riches story, but some of these riches-to-extreme riches are pretty compelling, too.

We're not counting the children of celebrities, nor those who got famous in large part because of their wealth (sorry, Paris), but the stars who attended the best schools and had the sweetest childhood vacations.

12. Beyoncé's dad was a successful Xerox salesman before becoming her manager.

Beyonce Knowles' father Mathew served as his daughter's manager for decades, but before that he was a successful salesman for the Xerox Corporation.

From 1992 onward, he devoted all his time to Music World Entertainment, which offers management and artist development services.

11. Glenn Close is the daughter of an esteemed doctor.

Glenn Close had a fascinating upbringing.

The daughter of a doctor who was once the personal physician to Congo president Mobutu Sese Seko, Close was raised in a stone cottage on her grandfather's estate until her parents joined Moral Re-Armament, which advocated communal living.

10. Chevy Chase is a private school kid with literary and musical parents.

Chevy Chase is a fourteenth generation New Yorker with a bevy of established relatives in the city's Social Register. His father was a book editor and magazine writer, his mother a concert pianist and librettist.

He attended a number of private schools, including The Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, before heading to college at Bard.

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She may have spent more than a decade playing coveted teen socialite Kelly on Beverly Hills 90210, but Jennie Garth, now 41 and a single mom of three, is clearly ready to embrace her frugal side.

Garth has signed on as a celebrity blogger for coupon site RetailMeNot.com's digital magazine, The Real Deal.  

"As a newly single mom of three, I’m trying to juggle everything: my kids, my career and, if I’m lucky, some sort of personal life," she wrote in her debut post. "Every minute is precious, and now more than ever, every dollar I bring home, or manage to save, means more safety and security for my family and our future." 

Garth has been a star on the small screen since the 80s and spent a decade married to Twilight star Peter Facinelli, whom she divorced last year. She was recently featured as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars and nabbed her own reality show on CMT.

It may sound like an unlikely pairing, but Garth insists her roots are about as humble as they come. 

Garth grew up in Urbana, Illinois, more than 2,000 miles from her alter ego on Beverly Hills. Her family grew their own food on their ranch, where she was raised with five siblings.

"I can still remember flipping through the tattered pages of my mom’s favorite cookbook, about feeding a family on $12 a week," she writes. 

If anything, we hope Garth fares better in the realm of celebrity coupon blogging than Kate Gosselin. The reality TV mom of eight was fired from her gig as a weekly blogger for CouponCabin.com due to creative differences in October. 

“Our goal at RetailMeNot continues to be to help consumers make sense of a world where they are inundated with deals, and to use a blend of news reporting, expert advice and entertainment to help shoppers make well-informed choices," Kristen Remeza, the editor-in-chief of The Real Deal by RetailMeNot said in a statement. 

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Amid much speculation, NBC has finally confirmed that Jimmy Fallon will succeed Jay Leno come February 2014.

The New York Times' Bill Carter reports:

NBC plans to announce on Wednesday its plan to install Mr. Fallon as the show’s sixth host at the conclusion of the network’s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia. NBC also is to confirm reports that it plans to shake up the axes of the television industry by moving the show from its longtime home in Los Angeles to its birthplace, New York. 

And despite his recent jabs at NBC, Leno says he is on board with the succession.

“The main difference between this and the other time is I’m part of the process," Leno told the Times. "The last time the decision was made without me. I came into work one day and — you’re out.”

He continued that this time around, “There really aren’t any complications like there were the last time. This time it feels right.”

Steve Burke, the chief executive of NBCUniversal, added, “Clearly our goal has been to make this a smooth transition. Jay deserves to be treated like someone who has done a wonderful thing for our company for two decades.”

After Leno leaves the air with much fanfare at the same time the network will be broadcasting the Winter Games in February, the "Tonight" show will also leave its longtime home of Los Angeles for New York.

“Jimmy is a New York guy, and the idea of having a show that is in the city Jimmy has always lived in and has Jimmy’s sensibility made sense," said Fallon's "Late Night" executive producer, Lorne Michaels. “It starts from who Jimmy is.”

“There’s no place in the world better to do a show than 30 Rock,” he added. “I know that because I do one every week.”

And after yesterday's musical duet, it appears things really are okay between Leno and Fallon in the land of NBC.

"The Tonight Show’ was number one when I got it,” Leno told the Times. “I’ve kept it number one for about 90 percent of my term here; and I would like to see Jimmy keep it at number one — which I’m sure he will.”

“I have nothing but respect for Jay,” said Fallon. “If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have a show to be taking over.”

As for Leno's next move, the 64-year-old says he expects to be “back on the road, being a comedian again.”

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It's official. 

Disney has shut down LucasArts.  

The Mouse House announced today that it will be laying off all 150 people at the game publishing division of Lucasfilm.  

Current projects, "Star Wars: First Assault" and the much-hyped "Star Wars 1313" have been cancelled.  

Here's the official statement:  

"After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we've had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles."

Disney purchased Lucasfilm October of last year for $4 billion. 

Last month, Lucasfilm announced it was ending its popular Cartoon Network series, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," and was delaying Seth Green's future animated series, "Star Wars Detours."

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We knew this was coming.  

"Jack the Giant Slayer" could lose between $125 million to $140 million for Warner Bros. and partner Legendary Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

The Ewan McGregor fairytale inspired film cost an estimated $195 million to produce.  

During its six-week run at theaters, it has earned $158.1 million worldwide.  

The last two big films to see similar losses at theaters were Disney's "John Carter" and Universal's "Battleship" in 2012. 

Last year, "Speed Racer" lost Warner Bros. more than $114.5 million. 

"Jack" isn't the only film Warner Bros. should be worried about. 

None of its other releases so far this year — "Gangster Squad," "Bullet to the Head," "Beautiful Creatures," and "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" – have fared well at theaters this year. 

Action flick "Bullet to the Head," featuring Sylvester Stallone bombed in February earning $4.5 million opening weekend. The film, which has an estimated budget of $55 million, has earned $9.5 million to date worldwide.  

The $345.1 million worldwide gross of all five of Warner Bros. releases this year is trumped by that of Disney's "Oz the Great and Powerful" which has earned $415.8 million worldwide in four weekends. 

Warner Bros.' box-office intake should improve vastly in the coming two months. 

The studio will be releasing both "The Great Gatsby" and "The Hangover Part III" within weeks of each other next month. 

Come June, Warner Bros. will hope Superman film "Man of Steel" will have the same summer box-office power as Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy did at theaters. 

"The Dark Knight Rises" alone earned more than $1 billion last year at theaters. 

Out next for Warner Bros. is Jackie Robinson baseball film, "42" starring Harrison Ford. 

Given its current box-office slump, it's a wonder the studio didn't move up the highly-anticipated "Gatsby" in order for it to gain more traction at theaters. 

Instead, when it debuts May 10, "Gatsby" will be sandwiched between two other big releases.  

The F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation will have to compete with Disney's "Iron Man 3" out the week prior and Paramount's "Star Trek Into Darkness" the following week.

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Eight writers on E!'s reality show "Fashion Police" on Wednesday filed a claim with state labor officials alleging that they're not being fairly compensated for the hours they've been working.

“The most I’ve been paid for a show has been for eight hours of work,” said "Fashion Police" writer Eliza Skinner. “In reality, I put in anywhere from 12 to 32 additional hours on each show -- time I should have been compensated for. On top of that is all the unpaid overtime we regularly work. There are some shows where we are required to work 16-hour days, from 2:30 p.m. until around 5:30 the following morning.”

Also read: Reality TV: The Invisible Front in Hollywood's Labor Wars

"Fashion Police," which debuted in the fall of 2010, features hosts Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos commenting on celebrity fashions.

The network, which is owned by NBC/Universal, issued this statement in response to the filing: “E! values our Fashion Police writers and we pay them fairly and in full legal compliance.”

The claim was filed with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. If upheld, it could result in the cable TV network having to pay more than $1 million in back wages, according to the Writers Guild of America West, which is providing legal assistance to the writers.

Also read: Moving From 'Mob Wives' to Kardashians: Jeff Olde Joins E! From VH1

According to the writers, who are not working under a guild contract, "Fashion Police" ignores the California laws that require an employer to pay hourly employees their regular wage rate for all time worked in an eight-hour period. In addition, the law requires paying overtime for employment beyond eight hours in any workday or more than 40 hours in any workweek. 

“We love writing for 'Fashion Police,' but the company needs to do the right thing and pay us fairly for all the hard work and time we put into it,” said writer Bryan Cook. “We’ve helped make it one of the network’s top-rated shows and E! needs to start treating us like professional writers.”

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Actress Mackenzie Rosman joined the cast of "7th Heaven" at just seven-years-old in 1996.

Rosman played littlest sister and minister's daughter, Ruthie Camden, until 2007, when the longtime series went off the air.

Here she is, her famous curly hair straightened, posing with some of her "7th Heaven" family at age 12 in 2001:

 And here she is at an Academy event in 2009 at age 20:

Most recently, a photographer posted the below photo of 23-year-old Mackenzie during a shoot for her upcoming feature in Maxim magazine.

After appearing in "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," Mackenzie has three independent films lined up for 2013.

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Marvel just released a collector's edition Blu-ray set filled with a bunch of goodies for fans of the comics and films.

In addition to deleted and extended scenes, fans get a first look at the next wave of Marvel films through 2015.

Video of the footage has hit the web unveiling a lot of new images from movies including "Thor: The Dark World," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Ant-Man," and "Rise of the Guardians."

We've compiled some character shots and artwork from the upcoming films.

We've already seen a lot of images for "Iron Man 3" out next month, but Marvel showed off a few more of Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark) in the suit ...

... and dragging it to a shed.

More images of Stark inside the shed have surfaced online via a novelization of the film.

Here's a silhouette of the Mandarin on a throne ...

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Pepsi really needs a hit ad campaign — the soda has been in a years-long sales funk— and Beyonce might just have delivered the goods.

In a new commercial out today, Beyonce is show rehearsing in a dance studio when, suddenly, the mirrors in the space show her reflection dressed in costumes from a bunch of her past music videos. This cues one of her trademark fierce dance numbers.

It's entertaining stuff, as viewers will want to puzzle out which parts of Beyonce's history are represented by each mirror image.

At the end, she says, "Embrace your past but live for now." The ad comes from agency 180 LA.

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We finally know when the fourth season of "Arrested Development" will launch on Netflix.  

Sunday, May 26 at 12:01 a.m.  

Netflix said that the return of the popular series, which was first cancelled by FOX in 2006, will be extended to 15 episodes.  

Originally, the streaming site was set to air 10 episodes of the comedy. Then Netflix announced in December that the series would have a 14-episode run.  

All 15 episodes of the series will be available for streaming on May 26.  

The return will be limited, as Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed at an investors conference February that "Arrested Development" won't get a second season on Netflix.

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Warner Bros. released a new trailer for "The Great Gatsby," and they just keep getting better.

If you've read the F. Scott Fitzgerald book about the mysterious Jay Gatsby, you'll recognize that much of the story plot is encompassed in the nearly three-minute trailer. 

Fans of the novel will appreciate the references to the green light in the trailer. Plus, there's new music from Beyoncé.

"The Great Gatsby" opens in theaters May 10.

Check out the trailer below: 

Warner Bros. also released a new poster for the film:

SEE ALSO: Stunning posters of "The Great Gatsby" cast >

SEE ALSO: The second trailer for the film >

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