LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some 28.1 million Americans watched the Grammy Awards show on television, a predictable 30 percent drop from last year's emotion-filled ceremony following the death of singer Whitney Houston, according to ratings data on Monday. Despite the lower numbers, Sunday's 3-1/2-hour show broadcast live on CBS was the second-largest TV audience for the music industry's big night since 1993, and many critics gave the show a thumbs up. ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Don Johnson has ended his lawsuit against the company that co-produced his series "Nash Bridges" after it paid him $19 million. In 2010, Rysher Productions was ordered to pay Johnson $23 million in profits for the show and interest. Rysher was also ordered to pay an additional $28.5 million in interest. But Rysher appealed, alleging jury misconduct and that the amount of interest to which Johnson was entitled was calculated incorrectly. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It's a downward spiral for Charlie, a successful professional whose life slides into despair when his girlfriend breaks up with him. This Charlie could be Charlie Sheen, but it's actually the fictional Charles Swan, a charming, immature character played by Hollywood's favorite bad boy actor and filmed only a few months after Sheen's off-screen antics got him fired in 2011 from TV comedy "Two and a Half Men." Sheen stars in "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III," opening in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese electronics firm near bankruptcy, a ruthless Chinese rival and a laid-off engineer feature in a popular TV drama that is hitting a public nerve in a nation fretting over the decline of a once-admired manufacturing model. A weaker yen due to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's expansionary economic policies has lightened some of the gloom for exporters, but NHK public TV's "Made in Japan" serial reflects a deep angst about an ailing manufacturing sector that was once key to Japan's success and a source of national pride. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There just might be a lot more dragons and swords in HBO's future. George R.R. Martin, whose "A Song of Fire and Ice" fantasy novel series served as the basis for HBO's hit drama "Game of Thrones," has entered an overall deal with the network. The two-year agreement will retain Martin as a co-executive producer of the series, which begins its third season March 31, but will also have him developing and producing series for the network. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Bear Grylls has apparently made up with the Discovery Channel, perhaps over a refreshing meal of urine and larva. The former "Man vs. Wild" host, who experienced a contentious split with Discovery last March, is returning to the company with a new series, "Bear Grylls: Ultimate Survivors," which will air internationally on Discovery in 217 markets across the globe. ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - ABC has picked up a pilot for an untitled John Leguizamo half-hour comedy, the network announced. Co-created by and starring Leguizamo, it is executive produced by David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Jeff Golenberg. It comes from ABC Studios and Mandeville. The pilot is based on the Broadway and film actor's life as a husband and father who feels like a fish out of water on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He balances a privileged wife, friends from back home in the Bronx, and a mother and grandfather "who try to keep him grounded in his Latin roots," according to ABC. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - CBS Films on Wednesday has moved up the release date for "Last Vegas," its comedy starring Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro, from December 20 to Nov 1. The move positions the film - about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single - as counter-programming to Summit's young adult sci-fi film "Ender's Game. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Time to sharpen the knives, for both culinary endeavors and back-stabbing purposes - "Top Chef" has been renewed for an 11th season, Bravo said Wednesday. The hit cooking competition will also begin casting for the upcoming season on February 11 in Austin, Tex. before moving on to casting calls in Brooklyn, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. The series, which is hosted by Padma Lakshmi, is produced by Magical Elves, with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz serving as executive producers. The current tenth season airs its newest episode Wednesday at 10 p.m. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - James Caan is reuniting with the Cullen Brothers. The "Godfather" actor has been cast to star in ABC's untitled comedy from "Las Vegas" producers Mark and Robb Cullen. The series revolves around recently divorced single mother Terry Gannon, who temporarily moves in with her estranged father - a beer-swilling former baseball player. In her new situation, Gannon reluctantly decides to coach her son's underdog little-league team, drawing her back into the world of sports that she vowed to leave behind. Caan will play Terry Sr. in the single-camera project. ...