Runaway battle heads to D.C.

MGM moves 'Softly' to Jan.

Canuck actors' union OKs extras

Terra Lycos logs firm loss

Court to hear ARD case against Kirch

TF1 courts victory

German $ backs pair's pix

Gauls' Factory forges ahead

ITV kicks in $57 mil for int'l rugby rights

NCTA reups topper Sachs

RAI reduces rev forecast

TV signals crossed

Hearst-Argyle profits dive as ad sales dip

Medusa signs pact to release CDI pix in Italy

Teuton's H5B5 names new CFO

Gruber to top BR net

Telefutura christened

Cabler WE, mags create promo push

Jive, Nick in the groove together

Minority orgs will meet net toppers

Acad sci-tech deadline set

A royalty rumble

TCM puts classics on library card

SAG reps mean business

B'way beats summer heat with B.O. gain

Wetlands drying up in Sept.

Disney Channel exex tapped with new titles

Zifkin helps holocaust victims win case

Turner laces up deal with Web's SportsBlast

Chickie Bucco

Seth Burroughs, Megan Harris, Aashlesha Patel, Jennifer Hauser

Showtime heads 'West'

Charter hangs up on AT&T bid

Universal pulls out of condom ad deal

B.O.'s animal planet

Clarification

Domain rings up Call

Martin will clerk on ABC 'Court' drama

Fisher lands double duty at Eye

Guidice set as 'Bob's' boy

USA fills in stripes

News Corp. unites duopoly stations under single G.M.

Halcyon set to fly by edge of 'Seat' with spec comedy

Sex abuse hoax may spur tighter TV regs in U.K.

Scribe finds 'Mask 2' a fit

Revolution fuels 'XXX' with Diesel

SAG reorg plan on hold

Dish: Billionaire Reveres films

KNBC to Phil its news slot

SAG forced to cut back health plan

Amelia Gray Hamlin

Pay channels clock in with Blighty auds

Vintage Vineyard

Pax uses Peacock ties to max

Sagansky scouts series

Mouse House opens up to Fox Family

Studios' vote on VOD mixed

MTV video noms like 'Choice'

Inside Move: U.K. acts fill U.S. sync

Inside Move: Joie D'Amelie

Inside Move: Spreading wings

Inside Move: A franchise to dye for

Auditor backs Ibope ratings

Inside Move: Oohs and Oz

Hard-up Multicanal eyes pact with rival

RCTI takes 'Heart' from Oz sudser

Packer packs a punch at PBL

Soaps reign in Spain

Inside Move: Media titans put spin on din

Will Jackson become local hero for USA?

H'wood's new British empire

Bruce Tuchman, Jules Haimovitz

Nathalie Garcia

Carole Taylor

Margaret Nicoll

Majors fight Napster spawn

South of the Border, B.O. is En Fuego

Politics, recession pummel B.O.

H'w'd pix driving key film reforms

Roundabout's 'Blue' hits high note

Networks exec adds new focus

Spinning a big web

Production firm ABD steppes into town

Vivendi U, Toyota pact for promos

It takes a bailout to raise E-Village

Venevision to rep DirecTV for Cup

Toronto sidebar taps tyro helmers

Channel 4 rallies its heir force

Prisa sheds ISP for $7 mil

Jackson watchers try to unravel a complex chief

Pubcaster SVT hit with $8 mil deficit

Profits rise for Germany's VCL

AOL TW settles with FTC over 3 Tenors

Discovery, Aaj Tak ponder Sony deals

Zee sets its next pic

U.K.'s 3i nabs Civilian stake

Sundance acquires Cho pic

Special to Toronto

Drag dresses up Studio 54

Edinburgh fest boasts Ch. 4 hopefuls

Central leads way to gay TV

Courts boots ARD

Advocacy groups challenge AOL tie

Norway exhib in expansion mode

NBC gets read with demo win

Challenger to ITN enters contract race

Chris-Craft deal closed

Solons on biz's side

July marches to monsters, but B.O. terrain is flat

Report calls for Congress to act on b'casters

H'w'd excited over embryonic cell research

Levy sparks cable news rates gains

ABC bucks yuks trend

Lowbrow fare takes NBC high

Frog taps 2 as shuffle continues

UIP banks its fastest billion

Giacchetto, Feds OK deal

Aussie midwinter's tale

Tribune touts pilots, growing blurb market

Canucks' labor woes spur reverse runaway

Synergy goes sour

Correction

Lifetime, TNN top July cable nets

Net reps, pols talk diversity

Dances fest names top pix

Cameo Technologies hitches to U trailers

Feresten punches Big Ticket

Thiessen to play sex columnist on 'Shoot'

E! inks with XM, Sirius Satellite Radio

Rachel Murray, David Boxerbaum

Inside Move: New cop on ratings claims beat

Thesp jumps into CBS' 'Wolf Lake'

Palm Springs short-films fest unveils slate

Brimm fills TF1 USA post

Nick Morton

Steve Barri

David De Busk

Helmer digs for 'Treasure'

Dan Harrison, Lisa Gillette

Steve Ramirez, Andrew Steiner

Steve Michaels

Ron Mirro

Kurt Bensmiller

Sophia Ruby Syrett

'Rollerball' 'eventized'

'Dr. Phil' to make top 10 house calls

Warner lands legal laffer

'Again' resurfaces at Sci Fi

The Write Stuff: 'Shutterbabe' zooms in

Ray taking reins as United Artists topper

Full Picture sets plans for studio

'Vadis' preems for Pope

U nets beefs up film-tv skein collection

EM.TV brass sets goals

Trust Film picks up 'Elling'

It's all in the family at Fininvest

Granada crosses Border to ITV lead

Lion tops 10 mil Latin subs

Indian tooner making splash

Wrestlers pin PPV

India's Maya launches effects house in U.S.

Garand upped at Walt Disney

Labels, webcasters argue royalty rates

Downey Jr. in front of cameras again

CBS shifting 'Brother' slot

Comcast touts gains, woos support

'Live' rides Ripa current

Haberkamp to head Acad education

Pubcasters WNET, WLIW wed

TNT trims 15 staffers in the Originals group

Parent Itemus tumbles with Shooting Gallery

Catch 23 Management adds Woodward to team

Azteca America launches Stateside

Solons seek to loosen c'right regs

Avid pinkslips 140, shuts offices

Graham lands veepee stripes in Fox talent

George pilots pact

'Corrections' connections for Rudin

Producer deal puts Disney back on laff track

Alda play sets run in Gotham

B.O.'s big dippers

'N Sync is top of the pops

'Race' at start line

'Sin' tempts preemgoers

'Princess' holds court

'Becker' cast bug

Inside move: NBC's Lack sez probe, pol 'absurd'

Univision ups revs, eyes futura

'Retrievers' fetches net's highest rating

Jury clears MGM in TV reality suit

Oz investors seeing red after 'Rouge' tax ruling

Brazil mulls foreign pic tax

Caliendo to be regular on 'Mad TV'

Wolper whipping up bio; Besson set for action

Helmer O'Haver gets 'Enchanted'

New Rebel joins online gaming software arena

Claire Marie-Elaine Hambrick

Ethan Zachary Sharp

Violet Clarisse Dely

Time for 'Dinner'

Al fresco at Drama Dept.

Momentum buys Intermedia pics

U.K.'s DBC calls it a day

Unzeitig exits Germany's Kinowelt

Telewest posts improving results

Disney pacts with Russia's ORT

EAT'M spins to Las Vegas

Leon Wilkeson

Canada renews 2 net licenses

'Unplugged' heads south

TVNZ dropped by TelstraSaturn

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'Sin's' Cristofer eyes toned-down fare

IA joins supporters of tax credit bill

FilmFour taps prod'n topper

Chase makes case

Pols pushing prix fixe Net tunes

Fox ups Hoffman to biz VP

NCTA: Cable is no cartel

AOL Music topper taps BMG exex for Web ops

WBIT puts Birch on sr. VP branch

Musical channels

RIAA expands Flatow's duties

Showtime bows 'America'

Hessinger signs 4-yr. deal as AFTRA director

N.Y. state of mind for UA

Comedy Central vetoes laffer 'Bush'

Int'l Docu Assn. taps new prexy

SAG to discuss board size

Carlyle, Ifans topline 'Once'

Euro media muscla

'Scooby' scribe digs up 'Dead'

'Pie' a la modem

'Nautica' finds a skipper

'Angel' writer gets Fox wings

Whitney trills $100 mil from Arista

Despite pix perfs, Disney profits drop

Fox locks up monkey biz

Becker tapped for 'Lady Killer'

Hughes aligns with NeTune board

Inside move: Ovitz looks to tune in TV partner

UTA names its Price for TV

'Becker' cast is cured but salaries are stable

Code 'Rouge' for Oz

Inside move: Pol plucks at NBC story

'Brother' finds auds online

Author Essex retells 'Kleopatra'

Shirley Barris

Alex Nicol

Ron Townson

'Rush' buddies spank monkeys

NBC nixes channel moves on TW cable

'Malcolm,' 'Gilmore' win Family honors

Gallery parent Itemus falls

Arrow spears int'l rights to 'Run'

Mickey Mouse math

Hoyts back in pack

Technicolor nabs Miles O'Fun

Helmer To ankles as China Star chief

Rivals ink sat soccer deal

Setbacks spin new twist on Welch bio

Alliance sets nonvoting stox offering

Kiwi pic producer exits film for TV

Eye may set up Lane skein

Indie figures wage battle over ratings

Linda's 'Lion Sleeps' re-release aids family

Nat'l Geo's 'Pearl' scores largest aud

U cleans up with 'Dirty' feature

Cimemaxx and Ufa part ways

U sings 'Wild Things'

Inside Move: UWT's 'Date,' 'Wheel' for sale

Leigh lines up for lead in 'Proof'

Inside Move: Rather restraint may win Condit

Cash for digital shorts

Raedlein back at Werk

Birds flock together

Slower B.O. growth seen

Thesp moves 'East' for Fox Searchlight

Mouse buys 'Indiana' pitch

Willman's playing for Game Show net

Hot days, cool o'seas B.O.

Orbit decays as Globe shuts sites

ABC shares U hits with USA

Dinos, apes romp; U.K. rains on 'Rush'

Col TriStar bows SuperBit DVD titles

Pro-Harper SAG group rallies

Congress eyes online bill

Leguizamo winks for Eye action hour

U Music ups Weatherston

AMG toons up deals

Connolly takes AFTRA helm

IEG, DiCaprio gang up

FX net brakes 'News'

HBO serves up 'Dinner' to pals

Hard-sell Mel dumps shares

Rupe and DirecTV hear an Echo

Wall Street analysts lay an egg for SEC

Acker wings to 'Angel'

Dennis Meyers, Doug Spilatro

Erik Flannigan

Bernie Laramie

Clint Manny

Kelly Oien Perez

Keith Walner

'Others' chills N.Y.

MTV's 20th anni serenaded

At a 'Deep' screening

The 'Brady' bunch bows

Charlotte Louise Tampol

Caitlin Dora Ramage

It's an Urbanworld

Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes

They All Laughed!

In Real Life

Tap Divas

Lucinda Williams

Three Sisters

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells

USA's Cannonball Run 2001

James Dean

Osmosis Jones

Mrs. Feuerstein

All About Us

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Smell of the Kill

An Evening With Donna McKechnie: My Musical Comedy Life

Macbeth/Cymbeline

Summer of '42

Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood

Cassavetes on Cassavetes

The Silence of the Lambs

Battle For Life

Out Of The City

Angel Exit

The Settlement

Victims And Murderers

Final

Birthday

Willfull

Sagittarius

Love, Curiosity, Prozac And Doubt

The Quickie

Fixing Frank

Silent Partner

Gypsy 83

Conamara

Lunch with Charles

Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock West Coast Style

Facing The Music

The New Women

My Life as a Troll

Low Fat Elephants

Flush

By Hook Or Crook

The Cat's Meow

The Strokes

The Cult