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Latest news from Television News: Television Review: A New Detective in the Drawing Room Julia McKenzie will have some convincing to do in the new season of “Miss Marple,” which begins on Sunday on PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” Arts, Briefly: ‘Mentalist’ Wins for CBS A rerun of “The Mentalist” at 10 p.m. delivered CBS the largest audience in prime time on Thursday as 9.7 million viewers tuned in to the crime show. Arts, Briefly: Leno Wins Web Ruling Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas real estate agent who was found to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct people to his own Web site. Mollie Sugden, Sitcom Star, Dies at 86 Ms. Sugden achieved wide popularity in Britain and the United States as Betty Slocombe in the long-running BBC comedy series “Are You Being Served?” Arts, Briefly: NBC Sets Premiere for Antiterror Series “The Wanted,” which will have its premiere on July 20, will follow specialists in foreign intelligence and war crimes, The Hollywood Reporter said. Arts, Briefly: Fired Fox Columnist Files Libel Lawsuit Roger Friedman filed suit against Fox and the News Corporation, saying that the company defamed him in public statements after it fired him. Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97 Mr. Malden’s half-century in show business carried him from theater to films to television’s “The Streets of San Francisco.” Video Game Review | Spore Galactic Adventures: Role Playing at Warp Speed in a Galaxy Darwin Never Imagined The new Spore expansion, Spore Galactic Adventures, tries to remedy the flaws of the original but falls short. Arts, Briefly: Friends and Family Remember Fawcett The life of Farrah Fawcett was remembered on Tuesday at a funeral in Los Angeles, The Associated Press reported. Television Review | 'Monsters Inside Me': The Enemy Within: Wrigglies From Hell “Monsters Inside Me,” a series beginning Wednesday on Animal Planet, tells real stories of parasitic infection and detection in a suspenseful, ticking-clock style. Advertising: Pro Bono Spots Soak Up More Commercial Time Support for public service campaigns is usually stronger during economic downturns because media companies prefer to run classy-looking, altruistic ads to fill space. Television Review | 'Nova: Musical Minds': Our Brains on Music: The Science “Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia.” Fred Travalena, Master of Impressions in Comedy, Is Dead at 66 Mr. Travalena, a comedian and singer, was known for a range of impressions of celebrities like Bugs Bunny, Ted Koppel and singers like Sammy Davis Jr. and Bobby Darin. Gale Storm, TV Star of ‘My Little Margie,’ Dies at 87 Ms. Storm, the Texas-born actress, made wholesome perkiness a defining element of television’s golden age on two hit sitcoms. Television Review | 'Shouting Fire': Some Speech Is More Free Than Others This documentary explores First Amendment issues that everyone should give some dispassionate, platitude-free thought. The Media Equation: Oscars Need Less, Not More And they say the Oscars are never much of a surprise. In Jackson’s Death, Black Ambivalence Fades Concerns that Michael Jackson was not as proud of his race as his race was of him seem to have diminished. Television: Hey, Bud, What Comes After Our 15 Minutes? David Faustino and Corin Nemec, television stars from the 1990s, are trying to move forward by exploiting their faded fame in projects like “Star-ving,” a Web series. One or Two Things He Knows About Teenagers “10 Things I Hate About You,” a series beginning on July 7 on ABC Family, is a new spin on the 1999 movie, which was based on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.” The Medium: The Susan Boyle Experience What the wildly popular video clip was all about. Video Games: Tiger Woods, Sporadic Gamer Tiger Woods is a gamer, or at least as much of a gamer as any parent of two can be. An Appraisal: Farrah Fawcett, a Sex Symbol Who Aimed Higher Farrah Fawcett’s stardom traced that cautionary Hollywood arc: meteoric fame followed by years spent trying first to overcome it, then seeking to recapture it. Farrah Fawcett Dies of Cancer at 62 Ms. Fawcett was an actress, television star and pop-culture phenomenon whose good looks and signature leonine hairstyle influenced a generation of women. Television Review | 'Hung': Gifted and Talented, in a Grown-Up Way This HBO series, about a high school teacher with an asset — a large one — is a downbeat screwball comedy in R-rated clothing. Television Review | 'Virtuality': Saving Earth and Touching Someone That Fox is broadcasting “Virtuality,” a film meant to introduce a series it has not scheduled, on a Friday night in June, carries with it the cruel weight of a live burial. Ed McMahon, Top Second Banana, Dies at 86 Mr. McMahon was Johnny Carson’s affable sidekick on “The Tonight Show” for nearly 30 years. Arts, Briefly: Walter Cronkite Is Seriously Ill The CBS News anchorman of the 1960s and ’70s is seriously ill with cerebrovascular disease and is “not expected to recuperate,” his family members said in a statement Thursday. Arts, Briefly: Viewers Pass on Obama ABC’s “Primetime” special on Wednesday, featuring a town hall discussion about health care with President Obama, attracted just 4.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s estimates. Video Game Review | Prototype: Slaughter on 14th Street: Laying Waste to New York by Pressing a Button Prototype, the new action-adventure game from Activision, invites players to turn Manhattan into their personal combat zone. Television: A Marriage Crumbles in Media Glare On Monday night, Jon and Kate Gosselin announced to a not unsuspecting world that they would be ending the 10-year marriage at the center of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” on TLC. |
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