Ryan Seacrest, The New King of Reality TV

5:57 AM PDT 4/6/2011 by Lacey Rose

For the first time, he tops THR’s annual power list, reveals his role in the NBCU-Comcast conglom and tells how he is expanding his empire with scripted, film and a Tobey Maguire TV show.

Last year, before the NBCUniversal-Comcast merger was finalized, Ryan Seacrest’s Los Angeles office had become an entertainment war room, with the tireless mogul plotting, if not exactly a takeover, at least a strategy by which his empire would expand.