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Setanta is believed to be seeking an urgent meeting with the Premier League in the hope it will help broker a deal to regain the rights it lost in last week's record-breaking TV auction. The Irish company won only one package for the rights to broadcast the Premier League between 2010 and 2013, cutting in half its current output. That would restrict coverage to 23 matches on Saturday evenings, which analysts believe may not be enough to sustain subscriber numbers and could plunge the loss-making channel further into the red.The talks will revolve around trying to re-secure the Monday night package, which Sky won last week, but those close to the process believe that such a manoeuvre would be 'virtually impossible'. The auction process is heavily regulated by an independent scrutineer under a compromise agreement with the European Commission.The six-year agreement, signed in 2005, allowed the Premier League to continue to auction its domestic rights collectively so long as its live mat

'Shakespeare a la Carte originally ran at Pizza Express in Brighton last May, offering audiences the chance to order extracts from Shakespeare plays and watch them performed by actors masquerading as waiters. BBC Radio 4's version of the show will be recorded live before customers at a restaurant in Brighton next month.'...

Mandy Moore's publicist says the U.S. actress and recording artist is set to marry singer/songwriter Ryan Adams....

Photo gallery of Kingda Ka, Six Flags Great Adventure's record-shattering roller coaster.

Music News: Show benefited L.A. Works -- A reformed New York Dolls played the Avalon Saturday night as part of a pre-Grammy benefit for volunteer/community service organization L.A. WORKS, with sponsorship from MTV Games, Los Angeles magazine, Von Zipper sunglasses and the Dolls' current home, Rhino Records. Although the Dolls are down to two original members -- frontman David Johansen, 59, and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, 57 - the five-piece group's performance gave no suggestion that their first show was 38 years ago. Opening the show was a DJ set from Bad Meaning Bad, a duo comprised of 'Juno' director Jason Reitman and the film's composer, Mateo Messina. The next night, Messina became a Grammy winner for his music supervision on 'Juno,' which won Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Other rock stars in attendance included Urge Overkill and Jane's Addiction founder/'Entourage' theme-song composer Perry Farrell.

The owners of the Field of Dreams Movie Site near Dyersville in northeast Iowa have called off plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary ...

More than 1,500 people attended a memorial tribute at the Majestic Theater in honor of Gerald Schoenfeld, the theater owner and producer who died in November.

A year-long web series produced by CNN will track two first-year representatives in Congress, both of whom film most of the series themselves. Because of that, Freshman Year is confessional and feels more like a YouTube video than anything else, covering both minutiae and interesting things about their jobs.The two men are Jason Chaffetz, 'a conservative Republican, a college football record-setter and a married father of three who is sleeping on a cot in his congressional office to save money,' and Jared Polis, 'a Democrat and former Internet entrepreneur who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress and the first openly gay male to be elected to the House of Representatives as a freshman,' CNN reports.While CNN has given the series a name, it's not really calling it a reality series, that they're 'a series of firsthand reports from two new representatives' who 'won convincing victories in November to represent parts of neighboring states in the West: Utah and Colorado.'Chaf

Calcutta TelegraphIPL: The ?Marriage? of Bollywood and CricketCricket360, FL - 12 hours ago... now part owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders has described the Indian Premier League as a marriage between cricket and Bollywood and she thinks it rocks! ...In times of economic chill, a bonfire of vanities Hindustan TimesIt?s not about getting the best players, but making the weakest ... LivemintTesting times for cricket Express BuzzCalcutta Telegraph - Cricketnext.comall 109 news articles

Lily Allen has begged fans to buy her new album. The 'Fear' singer is desperate for her new record 'It's Not Me, It's You' to top the US album charts and has pleaded with fans to make sure it moves up from its current number two slot.