NEW YORK — It looks like Kanye West has finally given a personal apology to Taylor Swift.

Representatives from "The View" say West called the country sensation after her appearance on yesterday's show. During the broadcast, the 19-year-old singer said West had yet to contact her to apologize for hijacking her acceptance speech on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

After Swift's comments, West called her and the two spoke, according to a statement from "The View."

Afterward, Swift told ABC News Radio: "He was very sincere in his apology and I accepted that apology."

LENO WINS VIEWERS, NOT CRITICS, IN DEBUT

NEW YORK — The critics savaged Jay Leno's prime-time experiment. Viewers gave it the biggest audience for an entertainment show since the "American Idol" finale in May.

What's next is anybody's guess.

An estimated 18.4 million viewers sampled the first night of "The Jay Leno Show" Monday, Nielsen Media Research said. But the most hyped debut of the fall season had the added advantage of being piggybacked on to one of the country's biggest stories. Leno interviewed Kanye West about why he had interrupted Taylor Swift the night before on the MTV Video Music Awards.

The challenge will be holding on to viewers. Leno's variety show will air five nights a week, a grand experiment for network television to see if NBC can build a profitable business competing with dramas on its network rivals.

NEW UNIVERSAL PARK, RIDE ALL ABOUT HARRY

MIAMI — It sounds like a new book in the Harry Potter series, but "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" will be a high-tech ride and the marquee attraction at the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter," a new theme park area opening in spring 2010 at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.

The "Forbidden Journey" ride was named by author J.K. Rowling and described yesterday by Universal officials in a webcast revealing details of the park.

The ride will take guests through scenes and rooms from the blockbuster movies inside a richly detailed remake of Hogwarts Castle, where Harry attends a boarding school for witches and wizards. The Harry Potter park will be part of Universal's Islands of Adventure.

FLEISS SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS' PROBATION

LAS VEGAS — Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation on felony drug charges stemming from her arrest in the rural Nevada town where she lives, her lawyer said.

Nye County District Judge John Davis followed terms of Fleiss' July 7 guilty plea to unlawful use of methamphetamine and possession of the painkiller hydroco-done without a prescription, attorney Robert Hill said.

The charges stemmed from Fleiss' Feb. 7, 2008, arrest outside a plumbing supply store in Pahrump, 60 miles west of Las Vegas.