entertainment - "television"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Did President George W. Bush bring luck to a soldier who was a contestant on the television game show 'Deal or no Deal'? Stay tuned.

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

TV Ratings: Fox still on top with 'Idol,' 'Kitchen' -- It's been in the shadow of television's biggest reality shows, but the finale of NBC's 'Biggest Loser' posted some hefty numbers Tuesday night.

Struggling musician Peter Bretter has spent six years idolizing his girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall. He's the guy left holding her purse in paparazzi photos and accidentally omitted from acceptance award speeches.

Film News: Actor appeared in 'Motor Psycho,' 'Tom Horn' -- Actor Stephen Oliver, best known as Lee Webber in the television series 'Peyton Place,' died of cancer March 5 in Big Bear Lake, Calif.

Film Reviews: Inspirational sports docu 'The First Saturday in May' follows six trainers, as demographically disparate as possible, as they nurse their thoroughbreds down the path to the 2006 Kentucky Derby. Granted sweep and stature by the triumph of the legendary Derby winner Barbaro and the big shadow cast by his tragic destiny, pic successfully elaborates on the sorts of color pieces that traditionally precede the race on television.

Most people in the TV industry would probably leap at the possibility to be the series programmer for HBO, long the gold standard of quality television. Of course, these days at HBO, the first step is a doozy, so even if Sue Naegle had a pretty good running...

'Carrier,' a 10-hour PBS series shot on the U.S.S. Nimitz, documents the slightly surreal self-contained floating world of a military ship at sea with tremendous depth.

The true story of a death in the family sheds light on Rudyard Kipling's conflicted nature.