CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Survivor: Cook Islands'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', and pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with the chestnut 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', followed by the movie 'The Santa Clause 2', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The CW offers a RERUN'reba', followed by a FRESH'reba', then a FRESH'America's Next Top Model: British Invasion'.
Faux has a RERUN'Nanny 911', followed by a FRESH'Simpsons', then a FRESH'American Dad', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy', then a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has 2 movies, but Faux thinks so little of it's duopoly (and viewers) they can't be bothered to list them.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Never Been Kissed', followed by the movie 'Never Been Kissed', again, then the movie 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] Best of BBC America - Reality;
[3:00 pm] Best of BBC America - Reality;
[4:00 pm] Best of BBC America - Reality;
[5:00 pm] Best of BBC America - Reality;
[6:00 pm] Best of BBC America - Reality;
[6:30 pm] Casino Royale;
[9:00 pm] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9;
[10:00 pm] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 7;
[10:30 pm] Footballers Wives Overtime;
[11:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4;
[12:00 am] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9;
[1:00 am] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 7;
[1:30 am] Footballers Wives Overtime;
[2:00 am] Cash in the Attic - Episode 5;
[3:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[3:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 11;
[4:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[4:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[5:00 am] Comics Unleashed - Episode 6;
[5:30 am] Comics Unleashed - Episode 7;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'Zoolander', 'Mind Of Mencia', and another 'Mind Of Mencia'.
History has 'Decoding The Past and 'The Passion: Religion And The Movies',
IFC -
[07:00 AM] M;
[08:55 AM] Mondays in the Sun;
[10:50 AM] Beauty and the Beast;
[12:55 PM] American Movie;
[02:40 PM] Greg the Bunny: The Passion of the Easter Bunny: Fabricated American Movie;
[02:55 PM] M;
[04:50 PM] Mondays in the Sun;
[06:45 PM] Beyond Rangoon;
[08:30 PM] Making of: Call of Duty;
[09:00 PM] Ripley's Game;
[10:55 PM] People I Know;
[12:40 AM] The eMusic Dozens: Indie Local;
[12:50 AM] IFC News Special: This Film Is Not Yet Rated;
[01:00 AM] Ripley's Game;
[02:55 AM] Wendigo;
[04:30 AM] Beyond Rangoon. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'The Lost Room', another 'The Lost Room', and the last 'The Lost Room'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Rosetta;
[07:45 AM] James' Journey to Jerusalem;
[09:15 AM] We Have Arrived Bonnaroo 2004;
[11:00 AM] Iconoclasts Season 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters;
[11:45 AM] A Game With Stones;
[12:00 PM] The Parole Officer;
[01:35 PM] Bedouin Sand;
[02:00 PM] One Punk Under God: Episode 1;
[02:30 PM] The Hill: Episode 5: Nothing Is Fun In A Hurricane;
[03:00 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 3: Hello Nails;
[03:30 PM] Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 3 - Empty Frames;
[04:00 PM] Hamburger America;
[05:00 PM] The Apostle;
[07:15 PM] A Game With Stones;
[07:30 PM] It's All About Love;
[09:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 3: Hello Nails;
[10:00 PM] What Rats Won't Do;
[11:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[12:00 AM] A Snake of June;
[01:30 AM] The Living End;
[03:00 AM] Dangerous Woman;
[04:45 AM] The Same River Twice. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor and activist Harry Belafonte participates in a march down Fifth Avenue to protest the police shooting that killed Sean Bell on his wedding day last month in New York, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006.
Photo by Shiho Fukada
Arthur Penn will receive an honorary award at the Berlin film festival for his role in helping reshape Hollywood during the 1960s and `70s with films such as "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Night Moves."
Festival organizers praised Penn, 84, for bringing a spontaneity and freedom to the Hollywood screen that was reminiscent of the unconventional production patterns of France's Nouvelle Vague movement.
Penn will receive the Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement. The annual Berlin film festival, or Berlinale, will be held Feb. 8-18.
Members of the band Deep Purple pose for photographers during a news conference in Bangalore December 16, 2006. The band is scheduled to perform in Bangalore on December 17.
Photo by Jagadeesh Nv
Actors and musicians including Tim Robbins and Peter Gabriel called on the U.N. Security Council Friday to approve its first resolution on Myanmar, whose military regime has waged a brutal offensive against ethnic minorities.
The appeal came in letters sent to the office of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after nearly 500 activists gathered in New York earlier in the week to highlight the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, also known as Burma, the human rights group WITNESS said.
"It is past time for the issue of Burma to be addressed by the UN's most powerful body," the letters said. "In eastern Burma, over 3,000 villages have been destroyed, forcibly abandoned or forcibly relocated in the past 10 years."
Celebrities who signed also included Kate Pierson of The B-52s, Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, Nile Rodgers of the band Chic, Grammy-nominated Benin singer Angelique Kidjo and American singer Suzanne Vega.
Americans will spend nearly 10 hours a day watching television, surfing the Internet, reading books, newspapers and magazines and listening to music this year, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Friday.
In its "Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007" released on Friday, the agency also noted that Americans drink about a gallon of soda a week, along with a half gallon each of milk, bottled water, coffee and beer.
Americans will spend another 2 1/2 hours listening to radio and a half hour listening to recorded music. The rest of the nearly 10 hours is spent reading newspapers, looking at the Internet, playing video games and reading other media.
If former Bee Gee Barry Gibb was looking for some inspiration for the country album he plans to record here, he couldn't have picked a more hallowed piece of ground to put down stakes.
Gibb bought and is restoring the lakefront house belonging to the late Johnny and June Carter Cash.
"Do you realize how many hit songs have been written in that 4- or 5-acre area, including Roy Orbison next door? The inspiration, being surrounded by the musical atmosphere that has been there for 35 years, we just had to do it."
Italian composer Ennio Morricone performs during a concert at the Duomo square, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Morricone, who has been nominated for five Academy Awards but never won, will receive an honorary Oscar at the Feb. 25 awards.
Photo by Luca Bruno
ABC has turned off the lights for "Day Break" and "Show Me the Money." The low-rated series airing back-to-back on Wednesday have been pulled by the network.
The failure of "Day Break," a crime thriller starring Taye Diggs, foiled ABC's plan to effectively fill the slot vacated by "Lost" when it went on hiatus after six episodes.
ABC said Friday that repeats of the comedies "George Lopez" and "According to Jim" will air in the 9 p.m. EST time slot that "Day Break" held only briefly. The show, which debuted Nov. 15, attracted fewer than 4.5 million viewers last week and ranked 99th.
On Jan. 3, the sitcoms "Knights of Prosperity" and "In Case of Emergency" will debut in the 9-10 p.m. EST Wednesday time period. When "Lost" returns Feb. 7 with 16 new episodes it will move to 10 p.m. EST Wednesday.
Socialite Paris Hilton fell victim to a hoaxer who wrote a widely publicized Web posting in her name defending the "partying ethics" of her new friend, singer Britney Spears, Hilton's spokesman said on Friday.
But spokesman Elliot Mintz said whoever wrote the entry this week on Hilton's page on the popular social networking site MySpace.com "crafted a very nice piece and the sentiments that were expressed were extremely articulate."
Mintz said Hilton had not so far taken any action against impersonators and acknowledged it was difficult for fans to know the difference between what was real and what was not.
Two filmmakers were refused access to the Smithsonian Institution's collections for their projects but researchers generally have not been restricted so far by the Smithsonian's semi-exclusive deal with a cable network, congressional investigators say.
The public has justifiable concerns nonetheless about the 30-year contract between the Smithsonian and Showtime Networks Inc., a cable network owned by CBS Corp., according to the Government Accountability Office.
The GAO also criticized the Smithsonian for not providing enough information to the public about the contract and for assuring filmmakers their access would not suffer based on analyses that rely on "incomplete data and oversimplified criteria."
Handout picture shows former Monkee Micky Dolenz. Dolenz just finished playing Charlemagne in the play 'Pippin' in Toronto. He's also had two books published this year -- a children's book titled 'Gakky Two-Feet' (Putnam, 2006) and a trivia game book titled 'Micky Dolenz' Rock 'n Rollin' Trivia' (Square One Publishers, 2006).
Photo by Timothy Fielding
American superstar Michael Jackson has postponed a pricey Tokyo Christmas event to next year so he could add another date to his schedule to meet fans, organizers said.
Jackson had been set to appear in a December 19 "Premium Christmas Party" for 1,600 fans in an event to include dancers, a band and gospel singers.
For 400,000 yen ($3,428), 300 "platinum" ticket holders can "meet and greet" Jackson and have a picture taken with the star. The ticket will include food, drinks and a glass of champagne.
Swiss-born American actress Ursula Andress was made an honorary citizen of her native Swiss commune of Ostermundigen, in the suburb of the country's capital Berne.
Her "heart feels love and warmth" for her birthplace, the 70 year-old Andress, best known for her role as the first and most famous Bond girl in 1962's "Dr No," said in the local dialect.
Andress, lived in Ostermundigen until the age of 16, before leaving for Paris, Rome and later Hollywood. Her sister still lives in the family home.
Deaf performers from the China Disabled Peoples' Performing Arts Troupe perform 'Thousand Hands Guan Yin' during an evening show 'My Dreams' at Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai December 16, 2006. The China Disabled Peoples' Performing Arts Troupe was founded in China in 1987.
Photo by Aly Song
The king of the remote Himalayan country of Bhutan has abdicated in favour of his son, the state-run newspaper Kuensel said in a statement on its website.
"The fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, has handed over his responsibilities as the monarch and head of state of Bhutan to the Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck who now assumes the full responsibilities of head of state as the fifth Druk Gyalpo," the newspaper said.
The king announced last year that he would abdicate in 2008, when the country is scheduled to hold its first elections. The report gave no explanation why the abdication had come earlier than expected.
A rib bone and a piece of cloth supposedly recovered after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake are probably not hers, according to experts trying to unravel one of the mysteries surrounding the 15th century French heroine.
Eighteen experts began a series of tests six months ago on the fragments reportedly recovered from the pyre where the 19-year-old was burned for heresy.
Although the tests have not been completed, findings so far indicate there is "relatively little chance" that the remnants are hers, Philippe Charlier, the head of the team, told The Associated Press on Saturday.
The fragment of linen from the 15th century "wasn't burned. It was dyed," Charlier said. And a blackened substance around the 6-inch rib bone was not "carbonized remains" but vegetable and mineral debris, "something that rather resembles embalming substance," he said.
Rivers of ice at the Equator - foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th - are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the great glaciers of Mount Kenya, glinting in the equatorial sun high above them, have retreated into shrunken white stains on the rocky shoulders of the 16,897-foot peak.
Climbing up, "you can hear the water running down beneath Diamond and Darwin," mountain guide Paul Nditiru said, speaking of two of 10 surviving glaciers.
Shelves of steamy fiction sold for 5.66 million euros (7.4 million dollars) at Christie's auction house in Paris in an unprecedented sale of a thousand lots of erotic literature belonging to a Swiss collector.
The auctioneers took "the highest price for an erotic book collection in more than 30 years" for Gerard Nordmann's library of a thousand works dating from 1527 to 1975, sold in two sessions in April and on Friday.
The oldest piece was the "Sonetti Lussuriosi" by early 16th-century poet and writer Pietro Arentino, which also contain a series of woodcuts depicting sexual positions and found a buyer at 325,600 euros, a record for an erotic book at auction.
Erotic works were also on sale by well-known writers and artists such as Apollinaire, Voltaire, La Fontaine, Louis XV, Maupassant, Rimbaud, Sade, Dali and Verlaine.
A piglet rests before the 'pig-ball' event at the 'Russia Piglets' Championship' in Moscow December 16, 2006. The four-legged athletes are competing over the weekend in disciplines such as running and 'pig-ball' - a ball game played with the snout.
Photo by Alexander Natruskin
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