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Monday, 22 December 2008 at 00:13 Posted by smp

Television News

Woolworths says 2Entertain talks continue with BBC (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 01:30 AM CST

Reuters - Britain's Woolworths Group Plc said talks with the BBC's Worldwide unit relating to the possible sale of its 40 percent interest in 2Entertain, their DVD publishing joint venture, were continuing.

Ailing shows travel from TV land to limbo (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 01:15 AM CST

Reuters - Most TV shows exit the airwaves with a flurry of headlines memorializing their demise. Sometimes, though, a program fades from the spotlight into a scheduling twilight zone: neither declared dead nor returning.

Quirky werewolf tale unleashed at Fox Broadcasting (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Dec 2008 12:48 AM CST

Reuters - Talk about a hairy "Sex and the City."

Chris Matthews mulling "Hardball" future (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 05:19 PM CST

Reuters - MSNBC may find out soon whether "Hardball" host Chris Matthews returns to the invigorated channel.

Tracy Pollan a mom figure for "Holloway" (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 05:16 PM CST

Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan arrive at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research benefit in New York in this file photo from December 1, 2007. (Jeff Zelevansky/Reuters)Reuters - Tracy Pollan, best known for playing the love interest of now real-life husband Michael J. Fox's character on "Family Ties," will star in a Lifetime Movie Network film about missing teenager Natalee Holloway.

Beijing Olympics play again on NBC (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:09 PM CST

U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps holds up one of his gold medals of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at a photo call in London in this file photo from August 24, 2008. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)Reuters - NBC will relive the Beijing Olympics in a two-hour primetime special on Saturday.

Surprising success for My Network TV (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:05 PM CST

In this image released by MyNetworkTV, illusionist Rick Thomas levitates his assistant during a scene from the new series, 'Masters of Illusion.' The weekly program, featuring 70 of the world's top illusionists performing escapes, levitations, and close-up magic, premieres Jan. 5, at 9 p.m. EDT on MyNetworkTV. (AP Photo/MyNetworkTV)AP - For the past three weeks, the upstart My Network TV has accomplished something that would have been considered unthinkable just two years ago.

Pushing Daisies Passes Quietly (E! Online)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:46 PM CST

Pushing Daisies Passes Quietly(E! Online)E! Online - Wednesday TV's Saddest Story: ABC's last scheduled (for now) episode of Pushing Daisies (4.8 million viewers, per Nielsen estimates) got beat in the 8 p.m. hour in adults 18-49 by, among others, a Univision telenovela. (The canceled show's final episodes will air eventually—ABC just hasn't said when.)

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