Earnhardt visits `Handy Manny' prime-time special
(Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:50:23 GMT)
AP - The children's animated TV series "Handy Manny Big Race" is going prime time Saturday night with Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Secrets unravel as "Breaking Bad" returns to TV
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:26:49 GMT)
Reuters - Walt White's wife has left him, his crystal meth partner in crime has gone into rehab, and his desperate double life as a chemistry teacher turned drug lord is in danger of unraveling.

Hourglass still full for "Days of Our Lives"
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:37:53 GMT)
Reuters - At least one daytime soap is safe for another year. NBC has picked up "Days of our Lives" for its 45th season, keeping the show on the air through 2011.

FCC kicks off cable-broadcaster review
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:18:03 GMT)
Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched a review into how broadcasters and cable companies negotiate retransmission deals following a recent spat between Walt Disney Co's ABC Network and Cablevision Systems Corp.

Famed for divorce, Yemeni girl set to read memoir
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:23:16 GMT)
Reuters - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.

Losing the battle to keep female flesh off Afghan TV
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:24:25 GMT)
Reuters - Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned television and barred women from appearing in public without an all-enveloping burqa, the Afghan government is fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off TV.

Cable networks eye Sarah Palin reality show
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:08:42 GMT)
Reuters - Sarah Palin is closer to landing a deal for a reality show.

"Life" breathes new vitality into nature series
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:29:35 GMT)
Reuters - Eleven hours of watching birds fly, frogs leap and whales frolic might seem to be taking a viewer's curiosity about nature a bit too far, but honestly, there's never been anything like "Life." Although this Discovery miniseries is just the latest in a long line of natural-science documentaries going back to Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom," it has the ability to instantly make all others look tragically dated.

Blue Collar Comedy celebrates 10 years
(Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:01:30 GMT)
AP - You'd think after 10 years, comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy would be tired of each other's jokes.