AP - "Gossip Girl" will get people talking. At least, that seems likely as the CW network brings to a boil its new campaign for the sexy prep-school soap.
AP - The widow of producer Aaron Spelling paid a whopping $47 million for a two-story condo atop a Century City residential tower that's still under construction, her lawyer said. -- read full article
E! Online - I read that Sherri Shepherd, who once wondered out loud if the world was flat, has had a ton of abortions. Why do stars share all this? TMI!
E! Online - As all Buffy, Angel and Firefly fans know, when Joss Whedon gets it right, he gets it very, very right. And if he gets it wrong—he'd rather us not know it.
Reuters - Emmy-winning actress Estelle Getty,
best known as a wise-cracking octogenarian on the popular 1980s
and '90s sitcom "The Golden Girls," died on Tuesday. She was
84.
Reuters - A day after influential critic
Roger Ebert quit the film-review show he co-created three
decades ago, the Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday named two new hosts
and unveiled a new format for the nationally syndicated
program.
AP - Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. -- read full article
AP - The last baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium and the most-watched midsummer classic since 2002 at least through the first nine innings helped Fox to a TV ratings victory. -- read full article