Bumstead designed for Eastwood

Forget irony, bring on farce

Yank classics get hit Brit makeover

After Yale, life is a cabaret, old chum

Biz off; 'Wicked' $1.8m

B.O. dips, but still high

Road stuck in the slow lane

Iran keeps its Guard up

High-tech carries U.S. message to Iran

Swiss clock up another web

Pubcaster pledges primetime makeover

Biography pens next chapter

FCC commish has Republican majority; now what?

'Nightline' topics hit dimmer switch

FX struggles as latest launches lost their edge

Affils no longer feeling love

Nets spar with buyers

Hay fest becomes Mecca of filmed lit

'Downfall' helps raise Beta Cinema's pic profile

Promo fever

Pix brake for soccer

Terrific trio tops $300 million o'seas

Snub of the week

The 'Idol' rich

Familiar 'Player' back in game

H'w'd's AIDS awakening

Eye buys big

Mavens talk of Mouse & men

Concorde fills slate

Eastern Europe picks bounty

H'w'd serial bowl

A new tiger for Lionsgate?

Wright interview takes left turn

Cannes wind rocks dock

Bushies need a good rewrite

Comicbook action

Crowe flies, but Baz is unruffled

Stage struck

Bizzers befuddled over 'boo' boors

Morricone kicks off tour with La Scala orchestra

India lines up for 'Da Vinci'

Panel calls for slim NHK

Helmer can't Czech cut-rate DVD sales

Net bid war looms

Noyce workshops E. African tyros

Chip McLean

Michael Petersen

Nathan Marcy, Thea Ellis

Alan Klein

Steve Cheskin

Sid Bedingfield

Keith LeGoy

Auds 'Break-Up' with their 'X'

Stephen Macias

Steve Pritchitt

Mark Flaherty

Steven Binder

Gina Harrell

J.P. Hannan

Consuelo Sayago

Kim Correro, Minda Gowen

Andrew Struse, Patrick Newall

James DiSalle

Troy Marshall

Patrick Kennedy

Mary Heed

Beat the devil

Puppy love good for Spirit

End of fest feast

Oz tunes in for Mouse music

Callender feted

Onion City announces sked

Hill given tribute

ASYMS in tune with benefit

Heartland ups ante

Fox Sports supports femmes

Monte Carlo fest announces lineup

Padua offers workshop

Consumer Products pacts with Naki

Krane bows market

HIM launches

Smith goes with Lippin

Actors Fund honors Liza

Anime USA takes toons to Vienna

Gray Matter expands

Col's putting on 'Pounds'

'Fanaa' claims record week at B.O.

Pakistan latest to ban 'Da Vinci'

Ricardo Chavira, Nadine Velazquez

Alia Shawkat, Illeana Douglas

Stephen Collins

Butch Klein

Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter

Alexander Siddig

The 'Morning' after

'Anatomy' of an expanded deal

FX dishing 'Dirt' for 13

Green goes live on Internet

Zombie dressed up for 'Halloween' sequel

Fox hoofs it to victory Thursday

Col hitched to '99' pitch

'Illusionist' duo up to old tricks

BBC, producers pact on VOD

Adelphia beats lawsuit

'Code' not cracking overseas

IFC takes 'Aura,' 'Man'

WGA agrees to public TV pact

Iron Sink floats skein

'Deadwood' rides again

M-Net keeping door open longer

Tartan votes for 'Election'

Pizza slices for Epic, Sony

Master class x 3

Return of an Oscar-laden fave son

Perfect pitch

Fishburne and the 'Bee'

Taylor's next turns include 'Burns'

Spry Sly espouses indie values

Film lovers split big pot

Program pickers keep focus on filmmakers

Ricci 'Half' right

Hopper canvases town

Mirren's made for max emotions

Fest takes 'dangerous' turn

Duo gets 'Something' started for Mouse

'Biography' rewrite

Helmer makes 'Exchange'

GSN new link in 'Chain'

NBC pads its Nielsen lead in latenight

'Vanished' beckons 'CSI' vet

Bill Kovacs

Bernard Loomis

Five puts U.S. fare on digital channel

John E. Horton

'King' aces syndie test

Premiere offsides

Notro nabs French pix

Subsidy drop pinches Oz theater group

William Driskill

Alex Toth

Brit b'casters in mobile trial

Cop drama farewell

Deluxe format shift

AXN taps Italo G.M.

Sexta teaming on telenovelas

Sydney fest will be topper's last

Farrell keeps tabs on marketing empire

AFI to fete Herskovitz

'Homeland' has a home

B'way biz hits wrong note

Correction

'Shield' cops a 7th season

CTV plugs in U.S. fare

Glen Freyer

Big picture for Hallmark

Marvel stocking up

Nets blink first

Second helping of Asian classics

EMI makes tracks

Par taps biz affairs exec

Fox bets on Vegas pitch

Democrat hopefuls woo H'w'd

Dentsu, Mitsubishi pact

Cartoon net popping for 'Pee-Wee'

Televisa in ABC's family

Shepherd lands 'L' role

'Yet' set for release

Sumner champions China

Genius tells kids tales

Fox ups 'X3' exec

Paramount finds 'Odd Todd'

'Miz' taps whiz cast

Screen revisits 'Stepfather'

Trio to shake, rattle in rolls

Kimmel schools 'Charlie'

Maryse Alberti

Geena Davis

Lauren Shuler Donner

Diane Warren

New prexy aims for higher profile

Out of the fish bowl

'Masters' challenged for domain

Ratings drop dogs the Donald

'Race' cup runneth over

Mixing faux and fact

Jackman gets Fox into Aussie pic biz

Reality gurus flip feature scripts

Cage's 'Dangerous' liaison

Voted off?

A 'Companion' reunion

Categories smooth nonfiction friction

MTV's anything goes kudos

Agents on high alert

Webs face new reality

Ride of a lifetime

ESPN realigns four exex under Skipper

A cut above

Bynes' 'Hair' in place

Fox TV enlists legal, biz exec

A 'Spring' fling for thesp trio

Long Wharf's 'Lintel' tops crix' nods

Rock keyboard master dies

Edward J. Yates

Clive Mizumoto

Phyllis Lycett

Tyro helmer back on the 'Night' shift

Sages suddenly sour on synergy

Par dials Telefonica for VOD

Vegas cans 'Hairspray'

Shochiku, Mitsui team on prod'n deal

Nine news dept. realigns, cuts 100 staff

M-Net gives in to 'Temptation'

Nippon shakedown

Bernard "Buddy" Seigal

Clooney ready for good night

Turner tuner returns

Wesler heads up Conn. Theater

Gurney's new Horizons

'Deal' seals Peacock win

Canucks nab Fremantle

A 'Natural' choice

Correction

MTV, ad giant wed in $300 mil deal

Lewis casts self as 'Nutty' director

Rupe turns a page on Internet TV push

Linda Fisk, Mary Pat Avery

Milinda McNeely

Tanya Lopez

Roger Posacki

Benjamin Tatta

Cindy Elfenbein

Russell Arons

Glen Charles

Steve Smith

Fox exec develops a taste for comedy

Humanitas announces noms

'Country Fried' serves up host

Here races to romance

Buzzetti gets legit at Gersh

Will Scheffer & Mark Olsen

Paul Scheuring

Ali LeRoi

Richard Dahm and Allison Silverman

Greg Garcia

Fred Gross and Nick Holly

Showrunner overdrive

Thesps move to 'Country'

Blogs help auds talk back

Scribes who don't type

Crisis of the well-drawn laffs

Back together again

End games

'Lost' soul finds 'Grind'

'Shadowboxer' is grand Teton bow

Alba tapped for 'Bill' role

Dale Everett

Pair uncork 'Paris' pic

TV Monopoly passes Go

Teri hatches new venture

Mystery money

Film Movement nabs pair of pix

Hugh ready to saddle up for Baz epic

Erika Alexander

Russia piracy plank

Teutonic telco agrees soccer truce

Sony takes digital view

Hilton Ruiz

Cheikha Rimitti

MSNBC prez signing off

Songster salutes Ol' Blue Eyes

S. Africa gov't may reconsider rebate

Peter Dill, Phillip Rosenberg

Josh Pais

Glenn Kaino

Molly Hansen

Zac Reeder

Peter Lops

Stuart Zwagil, Glenn Meehan, Sarah Poage

Michael McEniry

Jill Curran

Allan Louis

Charlie Bodin and Ronnie Sperling

Fans whistling Dixie

Correction

Van Zandts going legit

Seven, Global team

U.K.'s Sky News loses altitude, makes cuts

U.K.'s Freeview in 7.1 mil homes

Czechs halt film-funding protests

Zentropa partners to sell 50% of biz

C4's new media window is open

VNU averts trial with suit settlement

Global TV looks to U.S.

F/x experts going into CG Overdrive

Telemundo revamps scribe course

Mouse plans park push

Atlantic bows new space

Coin contractions

B'way 'Boys' in the black

Demonic day for 'Omen'

CTV skeins on broadband

Charlotte McGinnis

Cheikha Rimitti

Univision gets its kicks

A lewd awakening

IDG's changing plans

Cece Tsou, Mackenzie Mauzy

Vik, Vivendi volley again

Disney dings the soccer fan

'Lord' rules Canuck noms

Bernard Loomis

Azteca affil hits Texas via TW Cable

Inside Move: Fox radio issues errant epithet

WGA in standoff with CBS

VH1 up its Latin carriage

'Oprah,' 'ET' dominate syndie sweep

Nicolo Libero Ditadi

Pol talks on telecoms

Geffen goes 'Drinking'

Linda Fisk

Tough competition

Chandra Wilson, 'Grey's Anatomy'

Polly Walker, 'Rome'

Jaime Pressly, 'My Name is Earl'

Yunjin Kim, 'Lost'

Alyson Hannigan, 'How I Met Your Mother'

Sarah Chalke, 'Scrubs'

A new day for women of '24'

Kyra Sedgwick, 'The Closer'

Mary-Louise Parker, 'Weeds'

Dialogue delicacies

Mary McDonnell, 'Battlestar Galactica'

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 'The New Adventures of Old Christine'

In pilot's chair, Hill sets tone

Surf's up at cabler, with 'Gonzalez,' cops on deck

Maher mapping 'Journey'

How the West was done

Got Milch?

Lisa Kudrow, 'The Comeback'

Geena Davis, 'Commander in Chief'

Tichina Arnold, 'Everybody Hates Chris'

So much for stability

Fox lifts Grogin to sr. VP

'Dogs' fetches Minkoff

Crowd takes no bull

Glass ceiling healing

Poker pic gets new deal

Pic probes power play

Inside Move: Readers addicted to memoir culture

Globes guy returning

Helmers tap into charisma -- and wigs

Duo in 'League' with D'Works

Connery on 007

HBO's 'Little' deal

It's curtains for Off B'way theater

Actors call him mentor and praise his moxie

Fox counting down to '24' pic

Robot exec shifts to CW

Garden state

Sir Sean takes politico high road

Moore new man around town

Celebrating the censored

Beyond Bond, Connery found his inner King

New Line set to do 'Battle'

CAA's Tenzer in online space

Making the Cut

H2O-kay

Step into liquid

'Da Vinci' dropped from China screens

Top spot at Endemol may go to Barnicoat

Teuton credit union

Howard Rosenstone

Get a life

Buyers keen on Brit TV producer Kudos

Rupe's mobile move

'King' swings to Korea

Self-made Tan

St. Pete festival called off

Jessica Walter

Arielle Kebbel

Patrick Tatopolous