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The Great Blog Off has come to a close – after a marathon day of writing, hundreds of new posts were created by the Entertainment writers (and many guest writers!) and by the Business writers.
As you know, the Blog Off was a charity event. If you enjoyed this marathon, I encourage you donate to The Actors Fund to "sponsor" the great work of our writers. Your donation will help people in performing arts who have hit hard times.
To explore some of the great new content in Entertainment that was created for the Blog Off, check out the roundup posts on …read more

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Hart Hanson, Executive Producer for Bones, gave an excellent talk at the Banff World Television Festival in Alberta last week: from how the show was created, to how David Boreanaz was cast (and his initial dislike for Emily Deschanel!), to spoilers for the next season. Not to mention what would have happened to Zack Addy had the full Season 3 aired without the strike interruption.
Hart Hanson, who has been a great supporter for our SearchingBones.com site, talks about the series of decisions that led him to Bones. After a number of unusual decisions in the industry, including quitting a series, …read more

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David Hoselton, Producer & Writer for House (recently promoted from co-producer), appeared at the Banff World Television Festival in Alberta last week to give a speech about the "art of story editing" for the show: from concept to execution, and all the changes along the way.
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David Hoselton gave a play-by-play look at the production of episode 3.18, "Airborne", in which House and Cuddy find themselves on a plane from Singapore amidst a possible epidemic. Throughout the discussion, David tells us many interesting things about working for House, such as the three doctors kept on retainer for the series. …read more

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The Monte-Carlo Television Festival and Eurodata TV Worldwide have awarded prizes to the international television programs which have delivered the highest ratings worldwide from June 2007 – May 2008. Three US programs picked up the awards at the 48th Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
CSI: Las Vegas ( USA ) won for “Drama TV Series”
CSI: Las Vegas gathered more than 83.9 million viewers worldwide in 2007*.

Runners up: CSI: Miami ( USA ) and House ( USA ).

Desperate Housewives ( USA ) for “Comedy TV Series”
Desperate Housewives gathered more than 61.5 million viewers worldwide in 2007*.
Runners up: Monk ( USA ) and Ugly …read more

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b5media has teamed up for a 24-hour blog-a-thon to support Accion International and The Actor’s Fund.
The Great b5media Blog Off will begin on June 20th at 12:01am (in each writer’s respective time zone), to celebrate the summer solstice, which hasn’t occurred on any date other than June 21st since 1975 – this year it lands on June 20th. Writers from the b5media Business and Entertainment channels will be posting fresh news at least once per hour for a full 24 hours.
The Entertainment channel will be supporting The Actor’s Fund, a charity that helps professionals in performing arts & entertainment when …read more

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Kim Cattrall was in Banff, Alberta this past week for the Banff World Television Festival and the 2008 Banff World Television Awards.
Kim Cattrall was awarded the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction at the awards ceremony on June 9th. Cattrall, a Canadian actress, has led an outstanding career in the broadcasting industry and spoke candidly about her career in her acceptance speech and in an hour-long "in conversation" session held the next day.
Still glowing from the recent success of the Sex and the City movie, Cattrall had much to share about her life in the theatrical world. For, the theater …read more

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Dana Delaney doesn’t know why Desperate Housewives is so popular, but after turning down the role of Bree four years ago she was desperate to get onto Wisteria Lane herself.
After the show became a big hit she admitted “to a few 3:00 in the morning nights of, ‘oh my God’ what did I do?” she said at a press conference at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
While in town Delaney picked up the festival’s coveted Annual International TV Audience Award on behalf of the cast and crew of the show. At the awards ceremony she told the audience, …read more

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David Krumholtz has played everything from a sarcastic elf to a mouth-foaming psychopath on a terrifying episode of ER. He has finally found a home on his first hit series playing a genius crime-solving mathematician on Numb3rs. Krumholtz sat down with b5media at the 2008 Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
Are you as logical in real life as your character on the show?
I don’t like to admit it, but my girlfriend complains a lot that I like to plan everything out. I must have everything organized, I am very organizational. So yes, I am very logical. I am a …read more

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Jorge Garcia is going to miss the island he has adopted as his home almost as much as he will miss working with his Lost cast members when the show wraps in two years – if his character makes it to the finish.
“We all bonded easily and we enjoy working with each other. We hang out together, Josh has barbecues that we go to sometimes and Daniel has had people over. His old place was especially good for that because he had a screening room and when those of us had to stay on the island …read more

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Season three of Ugly Betty will include lots of guest appearances from people in the fashion and theater industry, including Patti Lupone, who will likely be a more regular guest now that the show has moved to New York, according to Michael Urie and Becki Newton, who attended the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
“The move to New York is going to be great because New York is where the fashion world really exists and we can have more appearances by people like Naomi Campbell and others in the fashion industry,” said Newton, who came to Monte-Carlo with her …read more

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