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• Today's News: Our Take - Housewives' Denton: Mike and Susan Are Splitsville

  TV Guide - Sun Jul 6, 3:32 PM PDT

  Gale Harold is a force to be reckoned with. James Denton confirmed as much, telling People.com that, as strongly suggested in Desperate Housewives' end-of-season, five-year flash-forward, "Mike and Susan have definitely split up." But as reported in the June 24 Mitovich Mega Minute, that does not mean Denton is necessarily done with the ABC serial. "Im not sure exactly in what capacity " [series creator] Marc Cherry is being a little cagey " but I will certainly be more »

• 'Project Runway': Still in Fashion for Season 5??

  Entertainment Weekly - NOW
  Settled into the backseat of a town car on a sticky June morning in New York City, Heidi Klum is explaining who she is — and isn't. Yes, she's the German-born supermodel who, over the past three years, has transformed herself from Victoria's Secret pinup to an Emmy-nominated TV star and producer. In 2004, with a little help from her big-shot friends (does the name Harvey Weinstein ring a bell?), Klum co-created and signed on to host Project Runway , the reality series more »

• 'Bachelor' Andrew Firestone weds

  Entertainment Weekly - NOW
  Former Bachelor Andrew Firestone wed model Ivana Bozilovic in Los Olivos, Calif., over the weekend, according to Usmagazine.com . ''After kissing the bride, Firestone's cousin and niece led the processional in a rendition of 'Livin' on a Prayer' by Jon Bon Jovi ,'' the site reports. Firestone asked Bachelorcontestant Jen Schefft to take his hand in 2003, but they didn't make it to the altar. The latest installment of the ABC reality show, The more »

• Koppel series shows changes in China

  Associated Press - 1 hour and 35 minutes
  The image of Ted Koppel interviewing world leaders is so ingrained that it feels odd to see him wearing a hardhat for a nervous trip into a Chinese coal mine, or sitting in a Chongqing karaoke bar where teenage girls are hired to "entertain" male customers. Good thing he did, since the field work is what makes his four-part Discovery Channel series, "The People's Republic of Capitalism," so valuable. It premieres 10 p.m. Wednesday, with three other installments at the same more »

• Lynda Carter's Wonderful Recovery

  E! Online - Sun Jul 6, 1:30 PM PDT
  On television, she had an invisible jet, a lasso of truth and indestructible silver bracelets, but in real life, Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has her own secret weapon: sobriety. The 56-year-old actress is opening up about her longtime battle with the bottle and 10 years of sober living. "I needed help," Carter told The Insider, explaining she was "brilliant" at hiding her alcoholism. "I begged God in heaven to help me figure this out." She said she finally entered rehab in Washington, more »

• NBC Universal, partners to buy Weather Channel

  Reuters - Sun Jul 6, 8:16 PM PDT
  NBC Universal and private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group said on Sunday they agreed to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications. Terms of the widely expected deal were not disclosed, but sources familiar with the transaction said the price tag was just under $3.5 billion. Privately held Landmark, which put The Weather Channel up for sale along with other businesses, originally had sought $5 billion for the unit, which produces national, regional more »

• Olympian research effort at NBC

  Reuters - Sun Jul 6, 8:13 PM PDT
  In an attempt to measure consumption of what at 3,600 hours will be the largest amount of Olympics coverage in history, NBC Universal is pulling out all the stops. The company, which has more than $1 billion in ad revenue riding on the Beijing Games, will announce Monday the closely guarded specifics of its 17 days of Olympics coverage. Not only will it easily dwarf the 171 hours available 12 years ago on NBC, the coverage will extend to near-constant coverage on NBC, more »

• TomKat: The British Are Coming!

  E! Online - Sun Jul 6, 12:23 PM PDT
  While some celebrated the holiday weekend with a Budweiser, the Cruise family enjoyed theirs with Becks. E! News has learned that David and Victoria Beckham , along with their sons, flew to Telluride, Colo., on Saturday afternoon to spend part of the weekend with Tom Cruise and family. A source says that in the late morning, David drove his family in his black Rolls Royce convertible to the Burbank hangar where Tom Cruise's jet is kept, and the family jetted off to join the more »

• One month to go: Beijing prepares to deliver Olympics

  Reuters - Sun Jul 6, 6:12 PM PDT
  With a month remaining until the opening ceremony of one of the most scrutinized Olympic Games in history, the time has come for Beijing to deliver on seven years of promises and billions of dollars spent. On July 13, 2001, the state news agency Xinhua hailed the decision to award the Olympic Games to Beijing as being a "milestone in China's rising international status and a historical event in the great renaissance of the Chinese nation." Six months ago, preparations more »