Reuters - The Israeli actor playing Saddam Hussein
in a new television series once narrowly escaped a missile
fired by the late dictator's army. -- read full article
AP - Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced Monday he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian with his Corvette and drove away.
AP - As an archery contender at the Summer Olympics lines up a shot, an American TV viewer sits squarely in the bull's-eye. When the arrows fly in Beijing, the view from tiny high-definition cameras is sure to jolt some folks right out of their recliners.
Reuters - NBC and the NFL will stream
online the complete "Sunday Night Football" season, the first
time a complete NFL game has ever been available on the Web in
the United States. -- read full article
Reuters - Steve Keller and Mike
Stone are back on "The Streets of San Francisco." CBS is
developing an update of the classic 1970s cop series starring
Michael Douglas and Karl Malden. -- read full article
Reuters - ABC has teamed with Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. on the new sitcom "18 to Life," the first
time that a U.S. and Canadian network have collaborated on a
comedy in the pilot stage. -- read full article
Reuters - On the heels of its 16
Emmy nominations, including best drama series, AMC's "Mad Men"
opened its second season with 2 million viewers Sunday.