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    TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - After a 15-month absence, FX crime drama The Shield will return for a seventh, and final, season on Tuesday, Sept. 2. -- read full article
    Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:09:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - Season No. 2 of Lifetime drama Army Wives premiered on Sunday, June 8 at 10 p.m. ET as the most-watched and highest-rated original series in Lifetime's 24-year history in households (3.7 rating), total viewers (4.5 million), women 18-49 (1.96 million), women 25-54 (1.97 million) and women 18-34 (805,420). Comparably, Army Wives increased by as much as 67 percent among women 18-49 from it's year-ago debut. -- read full article
    Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:09:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings: CBS Wins; Lackluster Season-Opener for Nashville Star on N
    Mediaweek.com - -Yesterday's Winners: The Bill Engvall Show R (CBS, *regularly airs on TBS), Bones R (Fox), House R (Fox), Two and a Half Men R (CBS), CSI: Miami R (CBS) -- read full article
    Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:09:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    New plays and newcomers salvage Broadway season (AP)

    This is an undated  file photo of novelist Charles Dickens. A musical version of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities' opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York in September. (AP Photo, file)AP - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" on Broadway. Uh, wait. That's this fall when a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in September.


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    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:46:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    XM, EMI settle portable radio lawsuit (Reuters)

    A woman walks past the waiting area of the XM Satellite Radio building in Washington in this file photo from March 25, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc and EMI Music said on Tuesday they have resolved a lawsuit brought by EMI against XM over its Pioneer Inno, a portable satellite radio with advanced recording features.


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    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:11:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    ESPN announces 80 percent of subscriber base locked up for 2012 (Reuters)
    Reuters - Sports cable network ESPN has 80 percent of its subscriber base under contract through 2012, George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and co-chairman of Walt Disney Co's Media Networks told analysts on Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:27:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Cable interactive ad venture taps new head (Reuters)
    Reuters - Canoe Ventures, an interactive advertising joint venture formed by U.S. cable companies, named former Aegis Media Americas chief executive David Verklin as the head of new venture. -- read full article
    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:22:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Ain't It Funky Now: James Brown items for sale (Reuters)

    Fans sign a poster of singer James Brown outside B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York in this December 26, 2006 file photo. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)Reuters - Fans of James Brown will have a chance to own some of the legendary soul singer's funky stuff when Christie's puts hundreds of items up for sale on July 17.


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    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Disney sees merchandise retail sales over $30 billion (Reuters)

    Actors Zac Efron (L) and Vanessa Hudgens, stars of the Disney Channel movie 'High School Musical 2' pose at the film's premiere at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California in this August 14, 2007 file photo. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday it expects retail sales of licensed merchandise to top $30 billion worldwide in fiscal 2008, helped by its popular Disney Princess and High School Musical brands.


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    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:17:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    CBS gets anti-trust approval for CNET deal (Reuters)
    Reuters - CBS Corp on Tuesday said it received U.S. anti-trust approval for its $1.8 billion acquisition of web media company CNET Networks Inc. -- read full article
    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:28:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    `Panda' piles up cash with $60M opening weekend (AP)

    Hollywood actor Jack Black, left, poses for a photo with Po the Panda who he characterizes in the animated film 'Kung Fu Panda' and DreamWorks CEO Jeffery Katzenberg, at the Australian premiere of the movie in Sydney Monday, June 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Jack Black's cartoon tale "Kung Fu Panda" had the right moves at the box office, debuting as the top weekend movie with $60.2 million.


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    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:03:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - Patrick Swayze, who was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, will move forward with production on new scripted A&E series The Beast. Swayze will play an FBI agent with a controversial past. -- read full article
    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:04:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - New CBS drama Swingtown got off to a positive start on Thursday, June 5, with a second-place finish behind game one of the NBA Finals on ABC in households (5.9 rating/10 share), total viewers (8.57 million), adults 18-49 (2.8/ 8) and adults 25-54 (3.4/ 9), and a first-place ranking among women 25-54 (4.3/11). Comparably, Swingtown built from an encore telecast of lead-in CSI by 17 percent in adults 18-49 and 13 percent in adults 25-54. And it outdelivered the debut of NBC's competing Fear Itself by double-digit percentages. -- read full article
    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:04:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Prime-Time Ratings: Weekend Highlights (Mediaweek.com)
    Mediaweek.com - -Ratings Breakdown: CBS and NBC shared leadership on this typically dull pre-summer Friday, with CBS the most-watched network (70,000 viewers ahead of NBC), and NBC No. 1 in households and adults 18-49. Third overall was ABC, followed by the CW and Fox. With the exception of a two-hour edition of NBC's Dateline, ABC's 20/20 and Friday Night Smackdown! on the CW, repeats were the unfortunate observation. -- read full article
    Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:04:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
    Top U.S. networks wrap "upfront" sales on upswing (Reuters)
    Reuters - The three leading U.S. television networks said on Monday they have concluded the bulk of their prime-time advertising deals for the upcoming 2008-09 season with prices for commercials running unexpectedly higher than last year. -- read full article
    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:17:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
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