Big BrotherReality TV: Ten strangers, three months and one network that has taken the reality TV craze one step too far. CBS'much hyped Euro import"Big Brother"debuted Wednesday night with all of the style and drama of a Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol commercial.

Mandel, NBC in'Deal'for game show (Reuters)Reuters - Comedian Howie Mandel isheaded back to NBC, this time as host of the game show"Deal orNo Deal."'Dancing With the Stars'Back in January (AP)AP - "Dancing With the Stars," a summertime hit for ABC, will return for an eight-week run in January.Actress Slain in Gang-Related Shooting (AP)AP - Teen […]

APEC Meeting on Navigation Satellite System to Open in Seoul (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Singapore News)SEOUL, Oct 31 Asia Pulse - APEC countries will open the eighth annual conference of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in Seoul Monday, organizers said Sunday.APEC Meeting On Navigation Satellite System To Open In Seoul (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! […]

Contracts prepare for next weather satellite series (Spaceflight Now)NOAA announced that it has awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Greenbelt, Md., Boeing Satellite Systems of Los Angeles and Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems of Redondo Beach, Calif.

Survivor: The Australian Outback (Survivor II)Reality TV: Die-hard fans might miss Richard, Rudy and the queen of tapioca, but there are plenty of greedy and paranoid players on the prowl for $1 million in"Survivor: The Australian Outback."CBS shrewdly scheduled its money train right after the Super Bowl, and the show that earned the year's most […]

"CSI"Probes Madonna (E! Online)E! Online - If it's good enough for U2, it's good enough for Madonna.

Slumping"Housewives"(E! Online)E! Online - What do Hollywood's struggling box office and DesperateHousewives have in common? Not much, actually. The box office, forexample, has been down four straight weekends. ABC's campy soap has beendown five straight weekends.Tina Fey Back On"Update"(E! Online)E! Online - Live from Studio 8H, Tina Fey's back on "Weekend Update."Anna Nicole Smith's Dogs […]

Thuraya plans third satellite (AME Info)The UAE's Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company plans to launch its third satellite into orbit in 2007. Officials told Gulf News that the project is on plan for delivery from Boeing Satellite Systems in June 2006 or a few months earlier. Thuraya 3 is a back-up for Thuraya 2.Vietnam aims to […]

TV Land lands a'Big Break'Reality TV: Net orders 6 half-hours from Sternberg — TV Land and reality producer Scott Sternberg are teaming on the original series"My Big Break."Cabler has ordered six half-hours that take a"Before They Were Stars"approach to a celebrity's first big break in showbiz.

Bands on the RunReality TV: If video did indeed kill the radio star, then made-for-reality TV bands have their weapons drawn for the gussied-up video stars who fill what's left of musicvideo in music television. VH1 updates"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"for a trio of scruffy rock bands, adds an element of the entrepreneur […]

Satellite Failed to Separate From Booster (RedNova)A Russian military satellite Mozhayets-5 launched from the Plesetsk space center failed to separate from its booster rocket.

Bands on the RunReality TV: If video did indeed kill the radio star, then made-for-reality TV bands have their weapons drawn for the gussied-up video stars who fill what's left of musicvideo in music television. VH1 updates"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"for a trio of scruffy rock bands, adds an element of the entrepreneur […]

Satellite Failed to Separate From Booster (RedNova)A Russian military satellite Mozhayets-5 launched from the Plesetsk space center failed to separate from its booster rocket.

First Internet-built Student Satellite Successfully Launched (Science Daily)SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department, was successfully launched this morning at 08:52 CEST from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Russian Kosmos 3M launcher. At 10:29 CEST this morning, the ground control centre […]

Satellite and cable companies to see improved Q3 results (San Jose Mercury News)NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) — U.S. cable and satellite providers are expected to report stronger subscriber figures for the third quarter, bouncing back from the seasonally weak summer.First Internet-built Student Satellite Successfully Launched (Science Daily)SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and […]

Reports: Russian satellite fails to enter orbit (CNN.com)MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — A Russian satellite has failed to reach its designated orbit, news reports said Friday in the latest is a series of mishaps that have dented the prestige of the country's space program.Russian satellite reportedly fails to reach orbit (MSNBC)A Russian satellite has failed to […]

Kahlua travels branding roads on'Exotic'series (Reuters)Reuters - With a new five-parttravel series premiering Saturday on the Oxygen Network, Kahluahas accomplished what many advertisers are talking about buthave yet to achieve in the branded entertainment space.PBS Documentary Examines Health Problems (AP)AP - The few dozen deaths so far from bird flu are all we need as […]

"CSI"Probes Madonna (E! Online)E! Online - If it's good enough for U2, it's good enough for Madonna.Tina Fey Back On"Update"(E! Online)E! Online - Live from Studio 8H, Tina Fey's back on "Weekend Update."'Junior'Gotti Visits Father's Tomb (AP)AP - John A. "Junior" Gotti visited his dad's Queens tomb for the first time, on what would have […]

TV Land lands a'Big Break'Reality TV: Net orders 6 half-hours from Sternberg — TV Land and reality producer Scott Sternberg are teaming on the original series"My Big Break."Cabler has ordered six half-hours that take a"Before They Were Stars"approach to a celebrity's first big break in showbiz.Temptation IslandReality TV: A knock-off of"Survivor,"Fox's"Temptation Island"is merely a lightweight […]

European students launch satellite into space (Reuters via Yahoo! News)Students from more than 20 universities across Europe have designed, built and on Thursday launched their own satellite into space.Europe's student-built satellite rockets into space (USA Today)A student-built spacecraft rocketed into space alongside several other microsatellites early Thursday, riding a Russian booster skyward into space. The […]