entertainment - "television"

'Dog Whisperer' 100th Episode: Millan draws auds to National Geographic Channel -- Lovey, the three-pawed dog who wouldn't stop licking, has stopped licking. Sophie, who nipped at her foster owner's cheeks like they were lamb chops, rests contentedly on the carpet.Cesar Millan, known to a grateful and growing TV audience as the Dog Whisperer, continues chatting with meditative ease on a folding chair in the scruffy HQ of animal rescue center Last Chance for Animals. It's a lazy Friday afternoon, just another low-key day shooting one of the most beguiling magic shows on television.Millan doesn't pull any puppies out of hats. He simply draws out the good behavior in any dog, however hopeless it might seem, and carefully explains how to maintain it. His tricks of the trade are tranquility and logic -- a unique ability to size up dogs and (more importantly) their owners, and put solutions into action. 'Around dogs, I am going to absolutely admit I have been balanced,' Millan later says.

International News: Co. reportedly being courted by local tycoons -- television Broadcasts, Hong Hong's dominant commercial TV group, upped revenues 8% to HK$2.07 billion ($265 million) as net profits edged ahead 1% to $64.5 million in the first half, compared to the previous year.

TV News: 'Fringe,' 'Times of Tim' to screen -- For the new york television Festival, there's the success you want, and then there's the success you get.

AUSTRALIANS will be able to see the new American version of the hit series Kath and Kim before it premieres on US television.

History's '102 Minutes That Changed America,' which airs Thursday, is a harrowing, painful reconstruction of that morning compiled from professional and amateur video and audiotapes.

THE spectacular rise and rise of Twenty20 cricket continues apace, with television rights to a glorified domestic competition selling for more than $1.1 billion.