AP - Ellen DeGeneres has recorded a series of phone messages that amount to an urgent wake-up call for women: Help yourself fight breast cancer.

Reuters - The Oxygen network has acquired exclusive cable rerun rights to "America's Next Top Model" from CBS Television Distribution.

Reuters - The father of "Heroes" teen star Hayden Panettiere was charged on Thursday with assaulting his wife at their home in West Hollywood last month.

AP - Prosecutors say they have charged the father of "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere with misdemeanor battery for an incident in which he allegedly hit his wife.

Reuters - The Fox network, which has been aiming to bring back the family-comedy-with-a-twist genre of TV series, is developing "The New McToms," a hybrid multi- and single-camera half-hour executive produced by Salma Hayek.

AP - "Late Show" host David Letterman kept up a verbal assault on John McCain Thursday, saying he felt like an "ugly date" because the GOP presidential candidate backed out of a scheduled appearance on his talk show.

E! Online - Everybody knows Luke Perry and Jason Priestley have said "not now" to the CW's new 90210—so how is it then that both Dylan McKay and Brandon Walsh pop up for major plot twists in next Tuesday's episode?!

AP - "Late Show" host David Letterman treated John McCain's decision to cancel an appearance on his talk show more like a stupid human trick than the act of a statesman.

AP - In entertainment journalism, the purpose of the lunch interview is twofold: to help the reporter feel like a normal, social being, and to have an excuse to talk with food in one's mouth.

AP - "Californication" is replete with sexed-up, misbehaving characters who act first and think later (like the morning after, through a pounding hangover). This Showtime comedy boasts a fast crowd of consenting adults — in particular, David Duchovny as womanizing, self-destructive writer Hank Moody.

AP - Ed McMahon has an unexpected new job title: rapper.