entertainment - "television"

TV News: 'Jonas Moore' to be developed as series -- MGM Domestic television Distribution has optioned U.K.-based online graphic novel 'The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore' for development as a series. MGM execs say the move is part of a burgeoning effort to put the Lion back into the TV production biz in a significant way.

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'Samantha Who?' star Christina Applegate, 36, is free of cancer after having both breasts removed to combat the disease, the actress told a U.S. television news show on Tuesday.

'PROJECT GHOSTLIGHT' the new series pilot from SchoonerScout Productions has been named an Official Selection in the fourth annualNew York television Festival (NYTVF) held September 12-17, 2008 at New World Stages in new york and BroadwayWorld.com has a sneak peek at this new and unique show!

AP - In an Aug. 18 story about a new book by Bob Woodward, The Associated Press reported erroneously that CBS television Network is owned by Viacom Inc. CBS Corp. split off from Viacom in 2006.

Front Page: Staff to visit cities with 15% analog TV users -- Coming soon to a town hall near you: the Federal Communications Commission with a message about how to survive the impending switch to all-digital television.

Front Page: Class action suit to pay out $4.5 million -- A group of over-40 television writers settled a long-running age discrimination lawsuit again ICM Tuesday.

SOCIAL networking site MySpace will commission a series of original local television shows in a bid to capitalise on the growing number of people turning to the internet to watch TV.

Exec Shuffle: Glick, Limerick to top business affairs -- Adam Glick and Dan Limerick have been tapped to co-head the business affairs department at Warner Bros. television.

CBS has announced the 11 teams who will compete as part of the 13th Amazing Race, which debuts Sept. 28.Executive producer Betram van Munster told the AP that despite Survivor's switch to high definition, his show won't switch to high definition anytime soon. 'I don't think it's a priority. We're just happy to continue making the show as it is.'He also said that, for the first time, the show visited Kazakhstan, perhaps best known to American audiences as the fictional home of Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat. 'We shot most of that episode in the capital. People were a little afraid we were going to pull a 'Borat' on them. I told them we weren't doing 'Borat,' but what happened there is very, very funny. It's not easy to shoot in places like that because they practically have no television industry,' van Munster said.As to the new teams, seven of the 11 teams are male-female, and there are just two male-only teams this season, neither of which seems like the sort of team of 20-