In the news...

CHINA BANS FOREIGN CARTOONS - Beginning Sept. 1, regulators will bar foreign cartoons from TV from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves...



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STARGATE SG1 BROADCASTS 200th EPISODE TONIGHT - with a self-parodying, post-modern, deconstructed episode in which the meta-version of the show itself is once again referenced in the show within a show Wormhole Xtreme which in this case is trying to do a feature film of itself. Hilarity ensues...

(And it don't hurt if you bring back Richard Dean Anderson for a guest slot.)



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CBS TO OFFER FREE DOWNLOADS OF PRIMETIME SHOWS - Seven series will be offered for "next-day" download including the CSI franchises and Survivor - and yes they will be free. Downloads will be available through the CBS site innertube...



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BONO PLACES A NOTE IN BILLBOARD FOR TONY BENNETT

Tony,

Trying to sing with you was a humbling, if not humiliating experience. You're like A HOUSE YOU CAN'T BREAK INTO, at least not by force. You can run at the door, but the doors are locked ... you can bang on the windows ... I got into the HOUSE OF BENNETT, but only as the cat burglar ... looking to steal a place in this incredible legacy.

I've had the pleasure of singing with you, AND FOR YOU ... I broke in through the bathroom window, up a drainpipe ... I'm not leaving

Bono

"I'm not worthy!"