entertainment - "television"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama has spent days rejecting charges of flip-flopping on Iraq, but the presidential contender on Wednesday owned up to changing positions on another issue -- letting his daughters be interviewed on television.

Narcotics busts and abduction rescues are just ordinary parts of Detective Inspector John Rebus' work. Critic John Powers talks about 'Rebus,' the fictional British detective who is the protagonist of Ian Rankin's series of novels and the popular eponymous television show.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - You know you're at the television Critics Association's summer meetings when one moment you're talking about what Barack Obama's nomination is going to mean to TV One - gavel-to-gavel coverage in Denver, for starters - and the next you're listening to Jane Seymour, ageless and demure in a blue dress, talking about "Dear Prudence," a Hallmark Channel movie the network describes as a "whodunit with a heart."

The American Federation of television and Radio Artists dealt a blow to the efforts of another actors' union.

The Inquirer's Jonathan Storm reports from the television critics press tour in Beverly Hills. Read his blog, "From the Source," with items on Chandra Wilson, Ben Vereen and Jane Seymour, among others, at www.philly.com.

Results of voting by members of the American Federation of television and Radio Artists on ratification of a new deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and television ...

Front Page: Union members ratify primetime deal -- Despite the Screen Actors Guild's avid campaign, members of the American Federation of television & Radio Artists have ratified the union's primetime deal by 62.4% -- a tally strong enough to send a rebuke to SAG, but not so strong that Hollywood's immediate future is clear-cut.

Members of the American Federation of television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) approved a new contract with film and television studios on Tuesday.

Ted Koppel doesn't actually cover much geographic ground in his four-part look at change in China on the Discovery Channel, but he seems a bit like a traveler who has lost his Fodor's.

AFTRA says in results disclosed Tuesday that 62.4 percent of voting members have approved the three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and television Producers.