When is the top ten not the top ten? When it’s both the top 9 and top 11.

1. American Idol (Tue) — 19.2/28 (rating/share)
2. American Idol (Wed) — 15.9/24
3. Desperate Housewives — 13.5/20
4. CSI: Miami — 13.0/21
5. 60 Minutes — 11.0/17
6. Two and A Half Men — 10.5/15
7. Deal or No Deal (Mon) — 9.8/15
7. [...]

BBC News reports on a growing trend of people insisting that they be buried with their cell phones. According to Martin Raymond of The Future Laboratory, the trend started in Capetown South Africa: “In fact, they were asking for the phones to be put into the coffins with them in case they woke up.” In [...]

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Since you were going to ask about it, here’s a rundown on the Apple Corps/Apple Computer lawsuit. This thing has been going on for years and I’m bored with it now, however, it’s in court today so I’ll sum it up - without resorting to puns based on Beatles song titles.

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In today’s show we whip up interest in Indiana Jones. We watch the Inside Man go outside. The Seinfeld curse evaporates. And Vehicles: Should You Climb Aboard? All this and increased production values, today on Box Office Weekly. Commentary after the jump.

Time Warner cable is in talks with the four big networks to create a Hits channel, which would make episodes of programs available soon after their broadcast premieres on an on-demand basis.
The service would be limited to the top-rated shows, possibly for a 50 cent fee per show, though Time-Warner spokesman Mark Harrad would neither [...]

Our old friend Shari Redstone put up a trial ballon this week, via Reuter’s. Using the digital projection technology now forcing its way into movie theatres, National Amusements says it wants to present live sports events - in 3-D.
The idea, of course it to compete with home entertainment centers, which the industry partially blames for [...]

A computer game based on The Godfather will be bumped way down the weirdness scale when, this fall, Buena Vista Games will release their Desperate Housewives game.

Click here and you’ll see the exciting, 20-times-manlier logo for the Spike Network. It has a quasi-military feeling, like seargent’s stripes; and it features a phallic, if uncomfortably short, spike.  Interesting.
I didn’t know Spike was doing so badly that they’d try a logo change. You’d think that it’s a no-brainer to put together a slate [...]

Well, there are cetain truisms in showbiz - dramas in snowy settings always fail, nobody marries executives for their looks, and Seinfeld alumni will never have a hit series. Imagine my surprise!