entertainment - "television"

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

Front Page: Co. signs at least a dozen writers to roster -- In a carefully orchestrated post-strike raid on the TV talent pool, Sony Pictures television has quietly signed at least a dozen scribes to its roster in the last month -- many of whom were dropped by other studios during the WGA walkout.

Canada's Survivorman humbled to hear his tips helped

Suzanne Shaw, who has just won the ITV television series Dancing on Ice, will return to the West End stage to star as Roxie Hart in the smash hit West End musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre on Monday 2 June for six weeks only (finishing on 12 July). Her other television credits include The Bill, City Central and Holby City. A member of Hear'Say (the original winners of television's Popstars), Suzanne has had several hit singles.

Poker TV has been a huge benefit to the popularity of the game, and a big money maker for many involved. The WinStar Casino is adding TV coverage to their WinStar World Championship Series of Poker and Blackjack, giving winners the added benefit of appearing on TV. There will be two events, both of which will air on ABC television...

TV News: Channel to launch April 12 on IPTV service -- Sony Pictures television International has inked with Spanish telco Telefonica to launch its third channel in Spain, the Japanese anime feevee feed Animax, which will be carried on Telefonica's IPTV service Imagenio.

International News: Violence part of last week's Shiite conflict -- The studios of public television channel Al-Iraqiya were ransacked and torched amid the violence that engulfed the southern Iraq oil city of Basra last week, although there were no immediate reports of casualties among staff.

'Battlestar Galactica,' now in its final season, remains one of the more beguiling series on television, an action-adventure drama that travels through time and space to explore morality, politics and metaphysics.

Fox Broadcasting said on Friday that it would go to court to try to overturn indecency fines imposed on 13 Fox television stations after regulators declined to reconsider the fines.

A show on the Discovery Channel turns the boring, repetitive and sometimes brutal job of crab fishing into popular entertainment.