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TV News: British import gets late-season pilot order -- ABC has given a late-season pilot order to an adaptation of the Britcom 'Pulling.'

The new host of NBC's "Late Night" has gone further to co-opt the Internet than his network rivals.

Peter Bart: NBC's Conan manuever triggers uncertainty -- In retrospect, this was a lousy time for the networks to mess around with the world of latenight TV.

International News: Italian money heads towards television -- Silvio Berlusconi is slashing Italo arts funding once again in an apparent repeat of the TV mogul-turned-premier's past m.o.

International News: Despite regression, programmer acts ambitously -- Forget the recession. Ten years after bowing in the U.S., Indian network Zee TV is expanding its American footprint with local and regional-language programming, moving its HQ from Dallas to new york and reaching out to global distributors.

The series that follows a terminal cancer patient and freelance crystal meth dealer is gaining followers with its story of a good man doing not good things

TV News: Driven by reality fair, network thrives -- The Dow dipped below 7,000 and unemployment could soon hit 10%, but Bravo just had its best February ever, with a 16% year-to-year uptick in coveted young-adult viewers that was driven mainly by hoity-toity chefs, millionaire matchmakers and rich housewives.

TV News: Questionable sponsors can alienate audiences -- In real estate, being surrounded by eyesores can diminish your property's value. So as networks prepare for upfront sales, they ought to be fretting about whether the proliferation of bottom-feeding advertisers in areas once reserved for blue-chip sponsors could produce the same kind of image-deflating effect.

TV News: Smarts, smile fuel MSNBC host's rapid rise -- If there was any doubt about MSNBC's faith in Rachel Maddow, look where they sent her in the past few weeks: She guested on Jay Leno and visited the ladies at 'The View.'And when Keith Olbermann was anchoring MSNBC's coverage of President Obama's first speech before Congress, she was the first analyst he called upon for reaction -- a plum position that in the past may have gone to Tim Russert.After struggling for years to fill the prime 9 p.m. slot -- with personalities as disparate as Rita Cosby to Dan Abrams -- the network has landed a solid performer in Maddow. Her ratings are a vast improvement over what has been there recently, and she has helped erase doubts the network could carry over sizable audiences from the record heights of the campaign season. In fact, she's made enough of a splash that the network is looking to fill the hour after hers with a compatible show, a prospect that has liberal groups lobbying for a like-

Frank Wildhorn's new musical, WONDERLAND: Alice's New Musical Adventure is set to debut in Tampa late this year. WONDERLAND begins performances on November 24, 2009 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.