Reuters - Canadian broadcaster CTV on Thursday ordered a new pilot from "Corner Gas" creator and star Brent Butt.

Reuters - Five months after he turned in his "Law & Order" badge, Jesse L. Martin is returning to NBC with a role in the drama series "The Philanthropist."

E! Online - America's got talent—as well as people who impersonate Ozzy Osbourne and shake unnaturally large portions of their anatomy—but only one person can rightfully claim to have more talent than anybody else.

AP - One of South Korea's most popular actresses was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide after suffering from post-divorce depression and harassment by online rumors about her allegedly irregular financial dealings, police said.

Reuters - Film and television actors ratcheted up pressure on Hollywood's major studios on Wednesday when negotiators, stalled in labor talks with producers, sought backing to put a strike authorization vote to guild members.

AP - House Peters Jr., a TV actor who became the original Mr. Clean in Proctor & Gamble's commercials for household cleaners, died Wednesday. He was 92.

AP - Stephen Colbert is hoping to swing into the White House — alongside Spider-Man.

AP - As you sample the half-dozen new series arriving in the next week, you might find that no matter how widely they vary otherwise, they share a common link: All of them are playing with time.

AP - Shooting a donkey, debating a tree stump and checking out Mexico from across the Arizona border were just some of the ways comedians suggested Sarah Palin was preparing for the vice presidential debate.

AP - Stephen Colbert is hoping to swing into the White House — alongside Spider-Man.

E! Online - • Sounds like it's time for Hilary Swank to start working on another Oscar speech. The actress is on the case in Betty Anne Waters, an Erin Brockovich-like drama based on a true story about a woman who fights to clear her brother of a murder he didn't commit. The flick will be helmed by director Tony Goldwyn (best known as the bad guy in Ghost), according to Variety.