Jon Stewart welcome the man sometimes called "Egypt's Jon Stewart" to "The Daily Show" -- but only after Bassem Youssef's bodyguards swept the studio and frisked Stewart.

"Bassam!" Stewart asked at the conclusion of the bit Wednesday. "What was that?"

"America is not that safe anymore. It's a little dangerous," Youssef replied. "I'm a little bit scared to be here."

"You're scared of us? No, no, no. We're scared of you," Stewart said. To which Youssef replied: "Haven't you seen Fox News?"

Youssef talked about recently attending the Time 100 dinner after being named to the magazine's most influential people list. He said such accolades have only made the Egyptian government more angry at him.

"I love it!" he said.

The...

Fox's "American Idol" is having a really bad week. The network’s big revenue generator is showing signs of distress. 

"The falloff has really been the last two years," Brad Adgate of media-buying firm Horizon Media told TheWrap. "You have to look at what's happened since then with the competition and the audience fatigue and the judges and the number of choices out there."

At its height in 2006, the show was attracting about 30 million viewers an episode. Compare that number to last week's results episode, which brought in 11.9 million total viewers and was beat in the key 18-49 demo by repeats of "The Big Bang Theory" – yes, reruns.

That blow casts a dark shadow on "Idol's" recovery from five consecutive weeks of Wednesday night key demo lows, a...

The story of the "Today" show's fall from grace – from its ratings losses to the debacle of Ann Curry’s firing – has received a lot of press. But, there’s a whole other side of the story, which Brian Stelter’s newly released book, "Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV," exposes.

"I think it's two books in one," Stelter tells TheWrap. "There's the 'Today' book and the 'GMA' book. I think the 'GMA' story is so much more interesting, because 'GMA' finally figured out a way to beat the 'Today' show. 'GMA' had basically given up. Some staffers at 'GMA' felt they’d never win. But, they found a way to do it."

The ABC morning show first broke "Today's"...

NBC's "The Voice" took a ratings hit Tuesday night but still took the night's top ratings, while CBS scored an overall win for the night, according to preliminary numbers.

CBS took first place in ratings with a 2.2 rating/6 share in the key 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with 12.9 million. "NCIS" at 8 p.m. drew even with its last original airing two weeks ago, drawing a 2.7/8 and taking 16.8 million total viewers, while "NCIS: Los Angeles" the following hour dipped slightly to a 2.6/7 and had 13.9 million total viewers. The freshman drama "Golden Boy" inched down at 10 to a 1.4/4 and took 8 million total viewers.

NBC was a close second in...