: Viacom's Sumner Redstone showed his true colors in a recent interview with Charlie Rose, admitting to crying when he canned Tom Freston and saying that when it comes to the attention of his virile, youthful male exectives, "I like it, but I would never ask for it." : The William Shatner is being tapped to host a game show called Show Me the Money for ABC.
: Google and YouTube play footsy.
: NBC has finally done something right. Heroes, the top new drama among 18-to-49-year-olds, was picked up by the Peacock for a full season. Just 21 more hours of prime time to fill!
: HBO's The Wire will likely be syndicated ...
on BET.
And in books news..
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: Blogger scores mid-six-figure advance on two-book deal; publishers then compare blogger-to-author craze to dot-com bust and proclaim it over.
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: Galleycat gets ahold of an early letters section from this weekend's New York Times Book Review and it ain't pretty: Sydney Blumenthal wants a piece of Jennifer Senior for her review of his new book, and David Thomson asks his reviewer, Lawrence Levi, "We doin' this?"
: Write a book with plenty of damning material about your opponent then self-publish it. Because that's clearly not what some crackpot would do.
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