Table of Contents
Week of 08/20/2006

Articles

B.O. bumpy; 'Wicked' on top

 

Bard celebration toasts Sneed a.d.

 

Biz strong; 'Drowsy' 969g

 

Auds like ring of Teuton fest

 

'Curtains' raises crix comparisons

 

Shows ready for close-up

 

Spinning new biz

 

Chinese soap on the job

 

It's still the 'One' in Canada

 

Italos take to tiny TVs

 

Promising bows jostle with faves

 

Sign of the Times: Print TV listings go extinct

 

Brazil eyes sunny winter

 

Israelis get view of other side

 

'Pirates' slides into top dozen worldwide

 

Viewers scramble as networks pass around football

 

Comic crisis means mirth dearth

 

Cape Town studio bows

 

Conflict chills Lebanese biz

 

Grisoni takes the risky writing route

 

Iraq gets feature play

 

Lit biopic tries to go two for Tru

 

Critics zero in on 'Zoom'

 

He had his castle, but never ruled Hollywood

 

Scribes take novel approach to guilds

 

Iran turns tables on cartoon battle

 

Journos battered in Lebanon crisis

 

Disney's twin toon houses draw a distinct line

 

Fall TV's infectious groove

 

A baby 'Step' in Mouse's growth

 

Material world

 

'Bridges' aims for wider span

 

'Phantom' caller

 

Habit turns to 'Vice'

 

A year later, there are no Big Easy solutions

 

Bagging the freebies

 

Toronto fest whistling Dixie

 

Any yen for Ovitz den?

 

CAA: super-size me

 

Grass' past not greener

 

Thesps out to HFPA lunch

 

A slithery slope

 

'Princesses' coming out

 

Pix clean up in U.K.

 

Global sets up IPO

 

Helmer voices pic

 

DVD distrib adopted

 

Matt Lanter

 

Dafne Fernandez

 

Nick Stahl, Taryn Manning

 

Lindsay Sloane

 

Carla Gugino, John Hawkes

 

NBC travels back in time

 

Hey, not so fast: EchoStar wins stay

 

Fox's stream team

 

The buccaneers won't stop here

 

Spy docu sparks spat

 

UMG unit lifts Lang

 

New Line gives Alliance extension

 

Flanders fest announces music noms

 

Keefe ankles Westport

 

Par pops for Latam pic

 

Lifetime has Taylor in 'Mind'

 

Scribe set at Touchstone

 

Law is on VH1's side with drama

 

Mini nabs its Adams

 

Schindel adds up for CBS Par

 

U cues new China distrib

 

Gotham Group pacts for pix

 

Paradigm gets into Little Big Man act

 

Toons get butts kicked by Brits

 

Italo films land H'wood showcase

 

Correction

 

'GMA' reels in a new anchor

 

Weinsteins whistling 'Dixie' rights

 

Broadway biz takes late summer dip

 

ITV exec slams 'complacency' at net

 

CBS taps Petty for new media

 

Venice Days go on 'Trial'

 

Winfrey's girls set

 

Gov lifts Webcasts

 

Gaga part of Usen

 

BRIT awards to air live again

 

Lindner brings WMA big news

 

'Sopranos' star stays in HBO family

 

CFO exits troubled Imax

 

Sci Fi's 'Stargate' swinging closed

 

CBS lowers radio volume

 

AFTRA allies with actress in dispute

 

Regional Spanish Voz enters films

 

Fired journo loses appeal

 

Hulaween in full swing

 

Trans World circles Tower

 

New gig for Warner syndie vet

 

CBS and NBC building bridges to digital realm

 

Prelude to a hiss: Buzz kills

 

Social pix rule Gramado fest kudos

 

La Sexta scores soccer rights

 

H'wood dips into B'wood

 

Par youth brigade

 

Latin America phones in mobile fest

 

Auds applaud versatility

 

The direct approach

 

Paul Koplin

 

Rich Iazzetta and Steve Hawn

 

Allyson Lattman and Andy Richley

 

Peter Phillips

 

Fremantle gears up Gers

 

Smells like teen faves

 

On the Short list

 

'Snakes' & circumstance

 

'Queens' locks in laffs

 

Check mate

 

Rubin banner rocks with Sutherland doc

 

Focus has big designs

 

Thesps gang up on U pic

 

'Dance' partner plots at Par

 

Helmers slate dates for kudos

 

Inside Move: Rickman, Duncan pair for Pinter

 

Crass clowns park pic pair

 

Fox can't resist 'Bait'

 

Game's afoot at ABC

 

Andrew Hyatt

 

Crackdown on Indian cablers

 

'Good Year' on Toronto's calendar

 

TV Acad's DVDs attempt to blur the line

 

Correction

 

Laxton lands 'Allotment'

 

San Sebastian harvests pic Pearls

 

Fest ready for 'Standoff'

 

B'casting on the go

 

ABC News sets fare for iTunes

 

Sahara grows Filmy

 

'Sexual' to close Raindance fest

 

'Montel' lifts producer duo

 

I-Cable scores goal

 

African cabler grows in U.S.

 

Constantin TV revs up

 

ITV adds laffer duo to lineup of U.S. fare

 

USA adding to '4400'

 

Equity prexy named exec director

 

Syndie vet in biz at WB

 

Lifetime's 'Life' fantastic

 

Weather is fine at 'GMA'

 

Helmer solves 'Mysteries'

 

Pair of preems get pre-fest deals

 

Syndies lower as viewers vacation

 

Skeins start fall early

 

Samaha settles with Intertainment

 

Celeb roster on Quills bill

 

EC to Teuton telco: Open your network

 

TBS stoking online laffs

 

Bismillah Khan

 

Rupert Murray

 

It's a war of the words

 

Tony Jay

 

Fox Reality recruits L.A. Sheriff's Dept.

 

MPD to sue ousted execs

 

Ed Thrasher

 

Rogue enlisting in 'Squad'

 

Charles Albertson 'Chuck' Jones

 

Lawrence Sacharow

 

Redstone: Content's king

 

'KANK' shocks Indians, but is winner

 

Joyce Blair

 

Sony reeling in Netco

 

Fox floods streams

 

Pair commit to U comedy 'Pronounce'

 

Sony taps 2 int'l execs

 

IFC's original recipe

 

Peacock divides specials dept.

 

Cash flows to Morgan Creek

 

Blockbuster scores in Netflix suit

 

First Look taps exec duo

 

SAG backs Blasi's appeal

 

Charles' firm taps ex-aide

 

Reveille wakes up to Rierson as exec veep

 

U sets new distrib unit

 

Canuck coin for legit effort

 

Verhoeven's 'Black' is Dutch Oscar entry

 

ITV sells stake in Ireland's TV3

 

Warner's Werner named syndie prez

 

Coming to America

 

U.K. high-speed hot

 

Exec duo will speak

 

Chou scores 'Slam'

 

Triple-play bundle

 

Sean Astin

 

Toronto's Euro anni

 

Distrib feels 'Funny'

 

Gaming pumps PBL

 

Seven using 'Force'

 

Tory Kittles and Rob Brown

 

Gaga pushes 'Back'

 

Court bans A films

 

Russell Peters

 

'Back' to Christina

 

Shannon Lucio

 

Ever Carradine

 

Ryan Devlin

 

Happy day for Hugh

 

'Idol' finalist set for 'Singer'

 

Duncan to play 'Mame'

 

'Dirty' wavers on close date

 

Par shuffles vid execs

 

H'w'd fest casts Stone

 

Calhoun plugs into VNU

 

Vid shows Fox hostages

 

CBS rings register on radio stations

 

Apple is ripe for settlement

 

Azteca America sets up in Big Easy

 

TBS taking a 'Payne' pill

 

Weinsteins, IFC pact

 

Newest 'Survivor' adds racy twist

 

Princely preem for 'Boys'

 

Fox stirring up romance

 

Emmy gives thanks

 

Post-kudos lineup

 

Hot time on the red carpet

 

More bang for the bucks

 

Stylists tally glamour's hit list

 

Emmys vs. Oscars

 

Autofocus: How the stars watch their skeins

 

Feds' swag slag lags

 

Whitaker will visit the 'E.R.'

 

Supernova tour is set

 

Broken Lizard's kegger

 

'Mother' love on B'way

 

Party gone 'Wild'

 

Roth plays 'Funny Games' with Watts

 

Ushering in a new era

 

Bettany dips into 'Inkheart'

 

Lionsgate banks on Mac

 

Who gets what?

 

'Later' leading man

 

San Sebastian's 'Boss'

 

Pat Baird

 

Woody clarifies Spain pic

 

Endemol sells China package

 

Just not interested

 

'Indian' cops Kiwi kudos

 

Sig Shore

 

'Tornado' spins out

 

ITV, Ten take on an Aussie 'Killer'

 

'Farscape' deal set

 

Chow floats 'River'

 

Craig Ferguson

 

Harold Perrineau

 

Henry Thomas

 

W.D. Richter

 

Sam Maccarone

 

Randy Smith

 

1957: Collins gets bungalow at 20th-Fox

 

Imperial will get 'High'

 

Romero will raise 'Dead'

 

BMG suitors line up

 

How to Wear: A Tall Woman

 

'Lieutenant' surrenders

 

Kickin' It

 

States getting creative

 

What's there to do in L.A. this week?

 

Toronto sets center plans

 

PBS finds a pipeline

 

Net makes a racquet

 

TCM, Cavett corral Brooks

 

Pic quartet tackles B.O.

 

Hybrid drama emerges at Yahoo!7

 

Elite Model Look contest for India

 

Kidvidder EM.TV revs are up 21%

 

Eye adds 20th, WB skeins to Web stream

 

O'Donoghue boosts Irish TV, films

 

'Volver' to open Vancouver fest

 

Games inspire Chinese canoe pic

 

Intel funds Anytime for broadband

 

Soaps still hold auds in China

 

Telefe taps sales exec for Europe

 

Amanda kudos salute elephant pic

 

Game: When shopping is hell

 

Cubic

 

Furniture doctor

 

Oz feevee buys brothel drama skein

 

Cox takes TiVo sans box

 

Pushy questions for…

 

Teuton DVD sales, rentals down

 

Synch or swim

 

Lowbrow, high ticket

 

Nina Susan Fleming

 

Let me help you

 

Shot of love

 

How many inches?

 

Regent picks up distrib rights to 'Aurora'

 

Thesps aren't 'Lonely'

 

Net signs 'Shocking' series

 

Court TV gets real

 

Janitors plan to fight dirty

 

Celluloid puts its brand on 'Brain'

 

'Tatooist' gets leading man

 

Oscar's docu deadline set

 

Mandalay hangs 'Five'

 

Reiter writes deal with NBC U

 

Shout! blazes TV trail

 

Surf's up for MTV skeins

 

Residual checks held up

 

Trio of thesps finding 'Love'

 

Two 20th laffers picked up

 

What's Moore up to this time?

 

'Avenger' copped by New Line

 

New Line's wedding vow

 

Inside Move: Horton makes house call for Alphabet

 

Inside Move: Rosenthal channels role

 

'Fur' flies into Rome

 

Walter 'Maynard' Ferguson

 

ITV exec: U.K. prod'n in cash crisis

 

MySpace honcho finds more space

 

Reviews

Black Watch

The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema

The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music

Orson Welles: Volume 2, Hello Americans

On Native Soil: The Documentary of the 9/11 Commission Report

Idlewild

Marlon Brando's Corset

Troilus And Cressida

Il Trovatore

Unfinished American Highwayscape # 9 & 32, or the Broken Tractor Graveyard

Walt Disney's Fantasia

Material Girls

Frost/Nixon

Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn

How to Eat Fried Worms

The Hill

I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda

Holly

A Dirty Carnival

Irma Vep - She's Back!

Mr. Dooley's America

Mother Courage and Her Children

Red Carpet

Hunter Gatherers

Invincible

Double Double

London to Brighton

The Paper Will Be Blue

Ellipsis

Jimmy Bosch's Salsa Dura; Los Angeles Philharmonic

Push

Alpha Male

The Translator

El Benny

Street Thief a Filmed Record

The Man from the Embassy

The Fantasticks

Beerfest

Big Band Bash

Seven Guitars