Comment: Bryan Appleyard (timesonline.co.uk)
British television news is dull and lacks substance. In America, anchors have authority and zest. Why won't the BBC join the winning side?
Ruth Conniff: The Take-Down Lieberman Campaign (progressive.org)
Tom Morissey, a retired New Haven police detective, is very, very excited. Monday night he put on a public forum for Ned Lamont, the liberal Greenwich businessman who is challenging Senator Joe Lieberman in a primary this summer. The mood in the room, says Morissey, was "electrifying," adding, "That's not a word you'll hear in connection with Joe Lieberman."
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a FRESH'Close To Home', then a FRESH'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Keri Russell, human cannonball team Brian and Tina Miser, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Mandy Moore, Dave Barry and Rock Bottom Remainders.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'Las Vegas', then a FRESH'Conviction'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Hugh Jackman, Bruce Parry, and Imogen Heap.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Paul Rudd, Chris Klein, and Hawthorne Heights.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Natasha Henstridge, Andy Dick, Anthony Jeselnik, and Metric.
ABC fills the night with the FRESH (LIVE on the East Coast; tape-delayed & edited on the left coast) '33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Joe Gannascoli and Godsmack.
The WB offers a FRESH'Survival Of The Riches', followed by a FRESH'Reba', then a FRESH'Modern Men'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Austin Powers In Goldmember'.
UPN has a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown!'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio', the MOST IMPORTANT program on over-the-air-TV.
A&E has 'American Justice', followed by a FRESH'Biography' (Dolly Parton), and another 'Biography' (Dixie Chicks).
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather, Part II', then the movie 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 7;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served' - Goobye, Mr. Grainger;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[4pm] 'My Hero' - Shock, Horror!;
[4:40pm] 'My Family' - Ep 2 They Shoot Harpers, Don't They?;
[5:20pm] 'My Family' - Ep 3 The Great Escape;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Ogden White;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 7;
[8pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 3;
[8:30pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?';
[9pm] 'Creature Comforts' - Episode 7;
[9:40pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 1;
[10:20pm] 'High Spirits With Shirley Ghostman' - Episode 7;
[11pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Birthday;
[11:40pm] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[12:20 am 'Benny Hill Show, The - Episode 12;
[1am] 'Creature Comforts' - Episode 7;
[1:40am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 1;
[2:20am] 'High Spirits With Shirley Ghostman' - Episode 7;
[3am] 'My Family' - Ep 1 Fitting Punishment;
[3:40am] 'My Family' - Ep 2 They Shoot Harpers, Don't They?;
[4:20am] 'My Family' - Ep 3 The Great Escape;
[5am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 6;
[5:30am] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 5;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', followed by the movie 'Frequency', then the movie 'Frequency', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'King Ralph', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', and 'Stand Up Nation With Greg Giraldo'.
HBO offers a FRESHReal Time with Bill Maher - scheduled guests include George Clooney, Sir Ian McKellen, Rep. Barney Frank and correspondent Michel Martin.
History has 'Las Vegas Hotels', 'Zero Hour', 'Grounded On 9/11', and 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] Smoke Signals (1998);
[7:30AM] Passion In The Desert (1998);
[9:15AM] The King Is Alive (2000);
[11AM] The Sweet Hereafter (1997);
[1PM] At The IFC Center #12 (2006);
[1:30PM] April: IFC Short Film Collection II (2006);
[3:30PM] The Sweet Hereafter (1997);
[5:25PM] Three Tales (2002);
[6:30PM] East is East (1998);
[8:15PM] Solaris (2002);
[10PM] Film School #10 (2004);
[10:30PM] Dinner For Five #30 (2004);
[11PM] Albino Alligator (1996);
[12:45AM] April Media Lab Results (2006);
[1AM] Film School #10 (2004);
[1:30AM] Dinner For Five #30 (2004);
[2AM] Albino Alligator (1996);
[3:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2006);
[4AM] Film School #10 (2004);
[4:30AM] Dinner For Five #30 (2004);
[5AM] Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong (2004). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'John Doe', 'Stargate SG-1', followed by a FRESH'Doctor Who', and 'Stargate Atlantis'.
Sundance -
[6AM] Kiss of Life;
[7:30AM] Celestial Clockwork;
[9AM] The Secret Lives of Dentists;
[10:45AM] Seventeen;
[12:15PM] In Short: In Short: Adam Elliot;
[1PM] Buffalo Bill and the Indians;
[3:05PM] Super Size Me;
[4:45PM] Brother;
[5PM] The Last Days;
[6:30PM] Kath & Kim: Kath & Kim: Fat;
[7PM] The Secret Lives of Dentists;
[9PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 4: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair;
[10PM] Things To Do Before You're 30;
[11:45PM] When the Day Breaks;
[12AM] Fellini's Casanova;
[2:45AM] Whore;
[4:05AM] L'Inondation;
[5:45AM] Brother. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedian and actor Robin Williams and daughter Zelda, left, appear on MTV's Total Request Live, Thursday, April 27, 2006 at MTV studios in New York City. Williams stars in Columbia Picture's new movie 'R.V.' with JoJo, Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
Actor George Clooney is making a plea for international help in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Clooney visited the region recently and says one girl there asked him when he was going to come back and stop the violence. He told her, "Soon," and she laughed and said, "That's what you always say."
Clooney says he had befriended the girl when she checked on him because he was sick after eating goat.
Clooney made his comments at the National Press Club in Washington. He says the best action he can take to help Sudan is to draw attention to the situation. He says he tries to "use the credit card that you get for being famous in the right instances whenever you can."
Sharon Stone has accepted an undisclosed sum in libel damages from a British newspaper that alleged she had left her 4-year-old son in a car while dining at a London restaurant.
Kirsty Howarth, a lawyer for the owners of the Daily Mail, told a judge at London's High Court on Thursday the newspaper now accepted that the allegation was untrue, and apologized to Stone for the distress and embarrassment it had caused.
Stone's lawyer, Rupert Grey, said the 48-year-old actress had agreed to accept an undisclosed sum in damages from the newspaper and planned to donate the money to charity.
Walter Cronkite arrives with Johanna Simon for the Vanity Fair party to celebrate the 5th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, Wednesday, April 26, 2006, in New York. The festival opened Tuesday and will feature screenings of more than 250 films during a two week period.
Photo by Louis Lanzano
British music producer Adam Kidron says that when he came up with the idea of a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem, he saw it as an ode to the millions of immigrants seeking a better life.
But in the week since Kidron announced the song - which features artists such as Wyclef Jean, hip-hop star Pitbull and Puerto Rican singers Carlos Ponce and Olga Tanon - it has been the target of a fierce backlash.
The initial version of "Nuestro Himno," or "Our Anthem," comes out Friday and uses lyrics based closely on the English-language original, said Kidron, who heads the record label Urban Box Office.
Kidron said the song also will be featured on the album "Somos Americanos," which will sell for $10, with $1 going to the National Capital Immigration Coalition, a Washington group.
Actress Sigourney Weaver helped Syracuse University dedicate a new Life Sciences Complex, calling on more women to study science.
Younger students, and women in particular, might not decide to study science because it's not taught in an interesting and exciting way, she said Wednesday during an appearance with "60 Minutes" co-anchor Steve Kroft, a Syracuse alumnus.
"We haven't taken care of our educational system for the last 30 years," she said. "It doesn't surprise me that kids are not ignited by what they are studying."
The verdict is in for "Law & Order": television's second longest-running drama will be back for its 17th season in the fall, NBC announced Thursday.
The network said it has renewed all three series in the franchise from creator and executive producer Dick Wolf, including "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
"Law & Order," which stars Sam Waterston, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina and S. Epatha Merkerson, must air for a total of four more seasons to catch up with "Gunsmoke."
Richard A. Martin III, great nephew of Josephine Baker stands by a headdress worn by Josephine Baker while reviewing an exhibit in Baker's honor at the Sheldon Gallery in St. Louis Tuesday, April 25, 2006. The exhibit highlights the black entertainer who left racially segmented United Statein the 1920s to become a superstar in Paris and on the international stage.
Photo by James A. Finley
"My Bare Lady" will cast four leading ladies from U.S. porn studios in a classic piece of drama to be performed in London's West End. Their experiences undergoing a crash course in acting and appearing before a discerning British audience will air in three episodes on the Fox Reality cable and satellite channels this fall.
"It's a wonderful tale of redemption," said David Lyle, general manager of Fox Reality. "Do they want lines that are a little more challenging than 'Oh, here's the pool guy...'?"
The show will be co-produced with the UK's Zig Zag Productions. Fox Reality is a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp
Rapper Snoop Dogg was released on bail Thursday after a fracas at London's Heathrow Airport that injured seven police officers, his lawyers said.
The rapper and his party were denied entry into the lounge because some of the entourage was flying first class, while other members of the party were flying economy class, said Richard Goodfellow, a spokesman for British Airways, which runs the lounge.
British Airways said they have sent letters to the rapper and his party telling them that they are banned from all future travel on the airline, the spokesman added.
German director Werner Herzog (L) is interviewed by film critic David Sterritt at the San Francisco International Film Festival in San Francisco, California, April 26, 2006.
Photo by Kimberly White
Rosie O'Donnell is expected to make a surprise return to daytime television by taking over exiting Meredith Vieira's slot on the talk show "The View."
O'Donnell's appointment was reported Thursday by the newsmagazine "Extra." It was confirmed by a person close to the show who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because "The View" wanted to make the announcement on Friday's show.
Eighteen anti-war activists who call themselves the Granny Peace Brigade were acquitted Thursday of disorderly conduct charges stemming from a protest outside a Times Square military recruiting center last fall.
Judge Neil Ross said his verdict following a seven-day bench trial was not a commentary on any police action that day.
However, he said the evidence before him showed, "there was no blockage of pedestrian traffic and anyone who wanted to enter the recruiting center could do so."
Officer Miguel Cruz testified that a sidewalk leading to the recruiting center was clear and unobstructed. and he did not see anyone try to enter the office.
A model wears a pair of salim shahi (specially designed shoes for wedding) as he presents a creation by Pakistani designer Naushemian during a fashion show in Karachi, Pakistan April 27, 2006.
Photo by Zahid Hussein
A private eye accused of wiretapping Hollywood celebrities claims federal prosecutors spied on him in prison through a secret deal with his then-girlfriend.
Anthony Pellicano's attorney said in court documents this week that his ex-girlfriend, Sandra Wil Carradine, gave FBI agents and prosecutors a "fountain of information" about his legal strategy after visiting him in jail several times last year.
Pellicano did not know Carradine was secretly cooperating with the government in July or that he had already been indicted on wiretapping charges, said his defense attorney, Steven Gruel, in court documents.
Don Johnson has paid $14.5 million to save his 17-acre Woody Creek ranch from a foreclosure sale.
The former "Miami Vice" and "Nash Bridges" star had until noon Tuesday to make good on a delinquent debt to D.A. Shaw Laminar Lending Inc.
Fourteen acres of his estate would have been auctioned off Wednesday on the steps of the Pitkin County Courthouse if he missed the deadline, deputy public trustee Carol Foote said. Three acres and the guesthouse would have been auctioned off May 10.
A sign announcing a homeowner's displeasure with an insurance company hangs from a flood-damaged home in the Lakeview area of New Orleans, April 26, 2006.
Photo by Lee Celano
Three weeks after a British court passed judgment in the copyright case involving Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code," a lawyer has uncovered what may be a secret message buried in the text of the ruling.
Lawyer Dan Tench noticed some letters in the judgment had been italicized, and it suddenly dawned on him that they spelled a phrase that included the name of the judge: "Smith code."
Justice Peter Smith, who during the trial displayed a sense of humor unusual in the rarified world of bewigged barristers and ancient tradition, appears to have embraced the mysterious world of codes and conspiracy that run through the novel.
Tench said Smith told him to look back at the first paragraphs. The italicized letters scattered throughout the judgment spell out: "smithcodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz."
Hundreds of US soldiers wounded in Iraq have been hounded by bill collectors for military debts after coming home, US television reported.
In one case the Army demanded a soldier repay a 2,700 dollar enlistment bonus because he only served two years of a three year tour -- even though it was a mortar blast in Iraq that cut short his service, according to the ABC News report.
The cases were unveiled in a report by the Government Accountability Office, which oversees public spending for Congress, according to ABC. The GAO report is to be released Thursday.
The report "found hundreds of wounded soldiers were turned over to collection agencies for military debts incurred though no fault of their own," ABC said.
Artist Jeff Koons poses with his sculpture 'Balloon Dog (Magenta)' during the vernissage of billionaire French collector Francois Pinault's show, prior to the re-opening of the Palazzo Grassi gallery in Venice April 27, 2006. Pinault's contemporary art collection goes on show at Venice's Palazzo Grassi this weekend, a major snub to art lovers in Paris which was originally meant to host the works.
Photo by Manuel Silvestri
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