AP - The contract between movie and TV actors and major Hollywood studios expired early Tuesday after the studios made a final offer and the Screen Actors Guild said it would take more than a day to study it.

Reuters - British actor Tim Roth, currently in theaters with "The Incredible Hulk," is making a rare foray into television with the one-hour Fox pilot "Lie to Me." He will play the lead role, a cutting-edge researcher in the field of "deception detection."

AP - The head of the Screen Actors Guild doesn't want to hear the s-word as a deadline for contract expiration looms.

AP - Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he's got something to fight for.

AP - Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he's got something to fight for.

AP - He was the comedian who actually said the seven words you can never say on television, but close friends and family members remembered George Carlin as a man who, when he was off stage, had only a kind word for everyone he met.