Reuters - In a rare move for a
cable network, Lifetime is looking to launch a daytime talk
show, handing out a pilot order for a project hosted by "Queer
Eye for the Straight Guy" veteran Carson Kressley. -- read full article
Reuters - Get out your poster
board and scissors. Starz Entertainment will help TV audiences
make their own 3-D glasses at home and then spend some summer
hours with Hannah Montana in 3-D on TV.
AP - General Electric has no plans to sell its NBC Universal media unit even as the conglomerate moves forward with spinning off slower-growing businesses, NBC Chief Executive Jeffrey Zucker said Thursday. -- read full article
AP - The Associated Press and video services operated by CBS and NBC have pulled video allegedly taken of a tornado in Nebraska last weekend after questions were raised about its authenticity.
AP - The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, the studios said Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - Weeks after giving birth to daughter Maddie Briann, Jamie Lynn Spears is showing off the newborn, sharing memories of a "perfect" delivery and longing to be a Southern soccer mom.
AP - Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, tells The Washington Post she is pregnant, and the father is a married federal contractor whom she met while stationed in Iraq.
AP - "Unless I'm home, I cannot be a great husband and father — especially the father of a child with special needs." — Benjamin Bratt, explaining that his 5-year-old daughter Sophia suffered brain injury at birth, resulting in physical disabilities.
