Bloodthirsty"Blade"slices its way to small screen (Reuters)
Reuters - I've never really been a big vampire guy, and my comic-book tastes always ran to Archie and Superman rather than the darker themes of good and evil. So it stood to reason I wasn't going to rave about"Blade: The Series,"Spike TV's first scripted original series, which is — not shockingly — quite the bloodletting experience, even gratuitously so.

Mullally nabs rights for"Strange"pic (Reuters)
Reuters - Megan Mullally is the latest"Will&Grace"vet to venture into producer territory.

ESPN baseball analyst Gammons stricken (AP)

AP - Peter Gammons, an ESPN analyst and a member of the writer's wing of the baseball Hall of Fame, underwent brain surgery Tuesday after he was stricken with an aneurysm near his Cape Cod home.

UK's ITV picks up Gervais show"Flanimals"(Reuters)
Reuters -"Office"co-creator Ricky Gervais'book series"Flanimals"is being made into a primetime stop-motion animation show for Britain's ITV, the network's director of entertainment and comedy, Paul Jackson, said Tuesday.

'Broken Trail'scores big ratings for AMC (AP)
AP - Robert Duvall and his movie"Broken Trail"proved an historic hit for AMC on Sunday, its 9.8 million viewers making it the most-watched program in the network's history.

Star Jones Reynolds leaving"The View"in July (Reuters)

Reuters - "The View" co-host Star Jones Reynolds said on Tuesday she is leaving the daytime chat show in July, no doubt disappointing fans who hoped to see sparks fly when Rosie O'Donnell joins the program this fall.

Reynolds'announcement upsets Walters (AP)

AP - The gloves are off for the women on "The View." Creator Barbara Walters said she was "betrayed" by Star Jones Reynolds' surprise on-air announcement of her exit from the daytime talk show Tuesday. Reynolds said in a magazine interview she felt she was fired.

Fox slides past CBS with"Hell's"help (Reuters)
Reuters -"Hell's Kitchen"won the battle of the reality series and sitcoms Monday, giving Fox a narrow win in the demo against CBS.

Foxx, Blige, Brown, T.I. among BET winners (AP)

AP - Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Jamie Foxx and Chris Brown were all double winners at Tuesday's BET Awards.

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