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HDNet elects Rather for primary coverage 5 May 08, 23:57 ET Reuters - Dan Rather's back in the saddle. more ABC'S "BROTHERS & SISTERS" TO FEATURE HISTORIC TELEVISION WEDDING 5 May 08, 23:37 ET On Sunday, May 11, millions of viewers will tune into the season finale of ABC's critically-acclaimed series "Brothers & Sisters," which will feature the ... more BoxingScene Television Picks of the Week 5 May 08, 23:31 ET By Cliff Rold The Spring fight schedule is going through its share of fits and starts right now; this week is a fits week. Sure, there’s some solid action ... more A&E Television networks launching Crime & Investigation HD channel ... 5 May 08, 21:09 ET by Richard Lawler, posted May 5th 2008 at 9:03PM Not satisfied with A&E HD, History HD and Biography HD, A&E Television Networks is throwing up a fourth ... more Don't Expect to See Tiananmen Square on Television This Summer 5 May 08, 19:48 ET As the Summer Olympics draw closer, China is making plans to try and assure that Tiananmen Square doesn't repeat its role in the country's history. ... more Clinton delivers Top 10 list on Letterman show 5 May 08, 19:23 ET Reuters - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton appeared on Monday on the "Late Show with David Letterman" to deliver the "Top 10" reasons she loves America, which included the ability to order her trademark pantsuits around the clock on the Internet. more Last night on television: Christina – a Medieval Life (BBC4 ... 5 May 08, 19:12 ET By James Walton If you think we’re living in bureaucratic times now, then Christina – a Medieval Life (BBC4) brought reassuring news that it could be worse. ... more Audrina Sets Sights on Cineplex 5 May 08, 19:09 ET E! Online - Audrina Patridge is planning a field trip from the Hollywood Hills to a Hollywood set. more The Stars Come Out for the Met Gala 5 May 08, 18:43 ET E! Online - What a night. more Cartoonist Ted Key, creator of `Hazel' comic, dies at 95 5 May 08, 18:13 ET AP - Cartoonist Ted Key, whose comic strip "Hazel" about a bossy maid went from magazine page to TV screen, has died. He was 95. more LG bets big on flat panel television 5 May 08, 17:57 ET Kuala Lumpur, May 5: Consumer electronics and durables maker LG Electronics India is planning to strengthen its position in the LCD and plasma television ... more Tom Benson agrees to buy FOX television station in New Orleans 5 May 08, 17:52 ET New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, who has a number of business and philanthropic interests in San Antonio, said Monday that he is buying WVUE-TV FOX 8 in ... more `Project Runway' may leave, but NBC keeps its producers 5 May 08, 17:44 ET AP - "Project Runway" may switch from Bravo to the Lifetime cable network this fall, but NBC Universal ensured Monday that the show's creators won't go with it. more Lindsay Lohan rebounds with "Ugly Betty" guest role 5 May 08, 17:33 ET Reuters - Actress Lindsay Lohan, working to rebuild her acting career after a year of personal turmoil, will appear as a guest star on the ABC television comedy "Ugly Betty," the network said on Monday. more NBC Preserves Soul of the Runway 5 May 08, 17:33 ET E! Online - Project Runway may have only one season to go on NBC Universal-owned Bravo, but the studio is looking to make sure it gets first dibs on the next wundershow that comes along. more Former NY DA Pirro gets TV show 5 May 08, 17:19 ET AP - A former district attorney is parlaying her experience as a legal commentator on television into becoming a judge on a TV show. more Lifetime Television Proudly Announces October Marquee Event ... 5 May 08, 17:11 ET Oscar(R) Winner Renee Zellweger ('Chicago') Reteams With Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, Executive Producers of the Oscar(R) Winning 'Chicago' as Producers for ... more Roberts declares `Wright-free zone' for Obama interview 5 May 08, 16:53 ET AP - CNN's John Roberts declared his interview with Barack Obama on Monday a "Rev. Wright-free zone" to telegraph he wouldn't ask the Democratic presidential contender about the controversy over his former pastor. more Warner Bros. Television Group to launch TheWB.com 5 May 08, 16:27 ET The Warner Bros. Television Group is hoping to go where its main demographic is —online — to boost revenue for its traditional TV business. The Warner Bros. ... more Infant Television and Video Exposure Associated With Limited ... 5 May 08, 16:06 ET Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD; Samantha B. Berkule, PhD; Suzy Tomopoulos, MD; Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, PhD; Harris S. Huberman, MD; Jose Alvir, DrPH; ... more Lindsay Lohan signs up for 'Ugly Betty' television sitcom 5 May 08, 16:06 ET Lindsay Lohan will attempt to revive her flagging acting career by starring in six episodes of the hit US sitcom "Ugly Betty", it was confirmed on Monday. more New Canadian Television Fund Incentive Balances Cross-country ... 5 May 08, 15:50 ET TORONTO, May 5 /CNW/ - The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) today announced that it has created a Production Incentive with the goal of balancing the ... more New Canadian Television Fund Incentive Balances Cross-country Production 5 May 08, 15:43 ET The Canadian Television Fund today announced that it has created a Production Incentive with the goal of balancing the distribution of financial support to productions across Canada. more Tom Cruise tells Oprah he wants more challenges 5 May 08, 15:23 ET Reuters - Hollywood's stars paid tribute to Tom Cruise on Monday's Oprah Winfrey television show, with the actor saying he hoped for more challenging roles and to work with the likes of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. more Canadian Television Fund Increases Support to Quebec Regional ... 5 May 08, 15:01 ET TORONTO, May 5 /CNW/ - Valerie Creighton, President of the Canadian Television Fund (CTF), today announced that the corporation has raised the regional ... more Twentyman: Kids needs stimulating television 5 May 08, 14:29 ET A There's no denying TV is a powerful and necessary medium and can be a great communicator but it's really an issue how much it influences our lives. ... more Tom Cruise says he feels at home on a movie set 5 May 08, 14:26 ET AP - A movie set is one of the places Tom Cruise feels most at home. more City Lights Television Forms New Global Unit 5 May 08, 14:12 ET NEW YORK, May 5: Reality format producer City Lights Television has created a new international development division, to be led by Laura Johnson as senior ... more Franco said to have stolen Cliff Richard's glory 5 May 08, 14:11 ET Reuters - British singer Cliff Richard was robbed of victory in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco fixed the vote, according to a documentary. more Revisiting Barbara Walters’s Television Tenure 5 May 08, 14:10 ET By The New York Times Barbara Walters last week in her office at ABC. (Richard Perry/The New York Times) In Monday’s Times, Janet Maslin reviews Barbara ... more 101 pretty good ideas from Home & Garden Television 5 May 08, 13:46 ET We can all learn from each other's garden mistakes. Here are a few that come to mind: Know the conditions your prospective garden additions are going to ... more Now Lohan Heads for Television 5 May 08, 13:39 ET Watch out, TV land -- there's another tabloid princess on the horizon. Britney Spears' stint on How I Met Your Mother brought in a ton of viewers, ... more Miley Cyrus performs at Disney but doesn't address photo 5 May 08, 13:37 ET AP - Miley Cyrus returned to the stage for a concert in Orlando, Fla., but did not say anything about the recent controversy over her Vanity Fair portrait. more SCI FI CHANNEL ACQUIRES OFF-NET CABLE RIGHTS TO CBS TELEVISION ... 5 May 08, 13:35 ET [NOTE: The following article is a press release issued by the aforementioned network and/or company. Any errors, typos, etc. are attributed to the original ... more Egypt TV boss to be tried after attacks on Mubarak posters 5 May 08, 13:31 ET An Egyptian television agency boss was charged by a Cairo court on Monday over helping to broadcast images of protesters tearing down portraits of President Hosni Mubarak during deadly food riots in April. more FOUR ARGUMENTS FOR THE ELIMINATION TELEVISION 5 May 08, 13:18 ET By the Mother Earth News editors What's the matter with ourmodern, technologically based society anyway? Why isn't it more satisfying? ... more DWTS Beat-by-Beat: Week Eight 5 May 08, 13:16 ET E! Online - Step in time with our Dancing with the Stars performance show liveblog: more HD Television FAQ 5 May 08, 12:54 ET Digital Television, or DTV, is an entirely new way of broadcasting TV pictures and sound over the air. The present broadcasting system uses an analog ... more Nina Garcia's Ugly Moment? 5 May 08, 12:32 ET E! Online - Nina Garcia made a cameo in last week's episode of Ugly Betty, but I'm told things didn't go too smoothly. more Stars Come Out (on Tape) for Tom & Oprah, Part 2 5 May 08, 12:32 ET E! Online - Oh, so that's why some people gave a flying fizz about Tom Cruise's opinion on postpartum depression. He used to just be the hot guy (with pretty decent acting chops) in the movies. more Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television 5 May 08, 12:23 ET By the Mother Earth News editors What' the matter with our modern, technologically based society anyway? Why isn't it more satisfying? ... more Television Journalist and Producer Bill Kurtis Interviews Last ... 5 May 08, 12:22 ET CHICAGO, May 5 -- The Cambodia Tribunal Monitor Web site today posted exclusive video interviews by TV journalist, producer and former CBS news anchor Bill ... more Academy of Cinema and Television Students Win Film Roles With ... 5 May 08, 12:12 ET Academy of Cinema and Television (ACT) students — four to be exact — were recently cast in two horror films for a major Hollywood studio. ... more Canadian Television Fund Ups Funding, Launches Newsletter 5 May 08, 11:45 ET The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) has premiered a new online newsletter to celebrate success stories in Canadian TV. "This is a time of renaissance and ... more Myanmar cyclone death toll tops 10,000: foreign minister 5 May 08, 11:36 ET More than 10,000 people have been killed in a tropical cyclone that struck Myanmar at the weekend, Foreign Minister Nyan Win told state television, adding that his nation would welcome international aid. more Cyclone Kills Thousands In Myanmar 5 May 08, 11:26 ET The death toll from the devastating cyclone in Myanmar over the weekend escalated to nearly 4,000 people on Monday, with thousands of others still missing and at least one entire village wiped out, state television and radio reported. more FOX Broadcasting Company and the New York Television Festival ... 5 May 08, 10:44 ET Fox Broadcasting Company joined with the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) today to announce the launch of the FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest. ... more Emmis to Sell Its Last Television Station 5 May 08, 10:38 ET Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: EMMS) is selling WVUE-TV in New Orleans to Louisiana Media Company, LLC for $41 million. ... more BigBand Networks Expanding Digital Television, HDTV For China's Zhongshan Cable 5 May 08, 10:06 ET BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading innovator in video networking, recently announced that Zhongshan Cable is deploying its Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR) to process, manage and deliver digital television services, including HDTV and video-on-demand (VOD) more TANDBERG Television's New Professional Receivers Smooth The Digital Transition And Improve Programming Distribution ... 5 May 08, 10:05 ET TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group, is launching a new professional integrated receiver decoder (IRD) range which will be on display in its booth #SU4210 at the NAB Show (Las Vegas, April 14-17, 2008). Optimized for specific high volume video distribution applications, the new RX8300 series will simplify content acquisition for cable, satellite and telco operators in the all-digital ... more New television programs aim to improve quality of media for children 5 May 08, 10:05 ET Objective news programs for children are being launched in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America with the goal of giving more children a voice and ... more First Look: Britney Spears on Next Week's HIMYM 5 May 08, 09:37 ET E! Online - Neil Patrick Harris and Britney Spears as a couple? It had never crossed our minds, but even we have to admit this is a pretty cute shot. more Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3,969--state television 5 May 08, 09:25 ET YANGON -- The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more may have been killed in the disaster. more Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3969--state television 5 May 08, 09:19 ET YANGON -- The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more may ... more Please Don’t Turn This Website Into a Television Show 5 May 08, 09:15 ET Hi, Telepictures? This is Reason calling. We heard you were thinking of spinning off your website MomLogic.com into a daytime talk show. We are not mothers, ... more Academy of Cinema and Television to Collaborate With Scarlett ... 5 May 08, 09:08 ET The Academy of Cinema and Television today announced the collaboration with Actress Scarlett Johansson, the sixth such collaboration in a series to offer ... more Lindsay Lohan to appear on season finale of 'Ugly Betty' 5 May 08, 08:38 ET AP - Lindsay Lohan will make a guest appearance on the season finale of ABC's "Ugly Betty." more (AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-05 13:09 Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3,969 - state television 5 May 08, 08:32 ET YANGON (Thomson Financial News) - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said on Monday, warning that thousands more may have been killed in the disaster. more Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3969 - state television 5 May 08, 08:18 ET YANGON (Thomson Financial News) - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3969, state television said on Monday, ... more Cyclone kills nearly 4,000 in Myanmar: state TV 5 May 08, 08:14 ET Nearly 4,000 people were killed and thousands were missing in two of Myanmar's devastated cyclone regions, state television reported on Monday, a dramatic increase in the toll from Saturday's storm. more PhotoMedex's XTRAC(R) Excimer Laser To Be Featured On ''The Balancing Act'', which airs on Lifetime Television 5 May 08, 08:00 ET MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa.----PhotoMedex, Inc. today announced that its XTRAC® excimer laser will be the subject of a segment of The Balancing Act, an original, daily, half-hour series for working women on The LIFETIME Television at 7:00AM, 6:00AM CDT. more Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3969: state television 5 May 08, 07:59 ET The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead. ... more Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3,969: state television 5 May 08, 07:50 ET The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead. more Lowe: USBC television event good and bad 5 May 08, 07:34 ET AP Page | ABC Sports By KENT LOWE There is something different about a bowling telecast when the United States Bowling Congress is involved as they were ... more Jamaican artistes banned from state radio and television in Guyana 5 May 08, 06:58 ET By Kevin Lindon GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The state television and radio, National Communications Network (NCN), has now placed a ban on the music of Jamaican ... more Family Guy Guy Goes Cha-Ching! 5 May 08, 06:11 ET E! Online - Fox is paying big bucks to keep Peter, Stewie and Brian all in the family. more The New E! Online 5 May 08, 05:56 ET E! Online - You may have noticed a few changes around here. more "Family Guy" creator seals megadeal 5 May 08, 05:48 ET From wunderkind to TV mogul: After 2 1/2 years of negotiations, "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane has inked a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV that would make him the highest-paid writer-producer working in television. more Burma cyclone death toll reaches 3,969: state television 5 May 08, 05:47 ET Rangoon - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Burma over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television.... more The networks' new advertising model 5 May 08, 05:47 ET In the aftermath of the writer's strike - and with ever-increasing competition from the Internet, cable channels and digital video recorders - primetime network television isn't the all-powerful medium it used to be. more Cristián de la Fuente Going Under the Knife 5 May 08, 05:45 ET E! Online - Just call it Surgery With the Stars. more Barbara Walters puts life on display with book `Audition' 5 May 08, 05:28 ET AP - No one doubts she's hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, "Audition." more Polish TVN boosts April television audience share, Polsat falls 5 May 08, 04:54 ET WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland's only listed television broadcaster TVN increased the audience share of its flagship channel in April leaving the main rival, privately-held Polsat, trailing, an online media service Wirtualnemedia.pl reported Monday. more Hot box: Television to talk about 5 May 08, 04:35 ET Sitcom Starlets: It's official: TV sitcoms are the new rehab. Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to make a guest appearance on the season finale of Ugly Betty. ... more Lindsay Lohan reveals her 'Ugly' side in new television role 5 May 08, 03:51 ET Troubled party girl Lindsay Lohan is attempting to revive her floundering career with a guest appearance on US television comedy Ugly Betty. ... more "Samsung Electronics and Giorgio Armani unveil new premium LCD ... 5 May 08, 03:15 ET Samsung Electronics and Giorgio Armani unveil the new Armani/Samsung premium LCD television at Milan Furniture Fair. ... more Monday's television highlights 5 May 08, 03:12 ET "Bones" at 8 on Fox: Max goes on trial for the murder of FBI Deputy Director Robert Kirby. "Gossip Girl" at 8 on The CW: Blair and Jenny spread scandalous ... more Nets expected to be generous with series renewals 5 May 08, 02:59 ET Reuters - For broadcast series still hoping for a renewal, the past week was rough sledding. more TV offspring expected for MomLogic 5 May 08, 02:52 ET Reuters - Mothers are a big chunk of the daytime audience, and now they could be getting a show just for them. more News hounds get exposure on truTV 5 May 08, 02:48 ET Reuters - TruTV is chasing after the people who chase news. The former Court TV network has ordered six half-hour episodes of "L.A. Stringers," a real-life series about freelance news chasers. more NBC plans big push for expanded summer lineup 5 May 08, 02:44 ET Reuters - With nearly 300 hours of summer programming on the line, NBC is upping its marketing efforts for its "All-American Summer." more Strewth! Aussie Catholics call foul on TV chef 5 May 08, 02:24 ET Australia's Catholic church has taken a swipe at foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay and demanded his reality television shows be either taken off air or shown at a later time. more Hunt for new "Famous Five" author as TV show starts 5 May 08, 01:39 ET British youngsters now have the chance to pen their own "Famous Five" novel, as one of the country's best known children's book series on Monday makes its television debut as a cartoon. more 2 - Media Pass on NY Times Pentagon Piece 5 May 08, 00:00 ET The April 20 New York Times story on television’s use of military analysts who were parroting Pentagon talking points on the Iraq war seemed like a story destined to make an impact; yet, an examination of a week’s worth of coverage by the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index found the media equivalent of a collective yawn -- only two follow-ups in the mainstream press. more

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