VIDEOAGE "PAPER CLIPS" — A WEEKLY PRESS REVIEW
<p><br>
  PROGRAMMING<br>
  With the end of "Friends" and "Frasier" forcing NBC to rethink 
  its future <br>
  line-up, the network plans to focus on reality TV this summer, with new seasons 
  <br>
  of "For LovAe or Money" and "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?" 
  [Yahoo! News]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381670">Yahoo! 
  News<br>
  </A></p>
<p>Britain's Channel 4 will air "My Foetus," a controversial new film 
  that will <br>
  show graphic, previously banned images of aborted fetuses. [The Guardian]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381819">The 
  Guardian<br>
  </A></p>
<p>Though the women's team ruled during the early days of the series, only one 
  <br>
  female now remains on NBC's "The Apprentice," showing the world once 
  again that <br>
  the fairer sex still works under that glass ceiling. [USA Today]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381728">USA 
  Today</A></p>
<p>Charlotte Ross, who has played Detective Connie McDowell on ABC's hit show 
  <br>
  "NYPD Blue" since 1991, is reportedly leaving the series after this 
  season. <br>
  [Yahoo! News]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381683">Yahoo! 
  News<br>
  </A></p>
<p>Due to the unprecedented success of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," 
  <br>
  ABC, Fox News and the History Channel will all air documentaries about the <br>
  life and times of Jesus, on Easter Sunday. [New York Times]<br>
  <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/arts/television/05STAN.html">New 
  York Times</A></p>
<p>Producers are searching for a British family to move "down under" 
  and <br>
  effectively be transported back in time to the days of early settlers in Australia. 
  <br>
  [Yahoo! News]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381689">Yahoo! 
  News<br>
  </A></p>
<p><br>
  CABLE<br>
  When the cable rerun rights to the hit NBC comedy, "Friends," become 
  <br>
  available in September 2011, the network is hoping to get a minimum of $1 million 
  per <br>
  episode. [Yahoo! News] <br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381784">Yahoo! 
  News<br>
  </A></p>
<p><br>
  BROADBAND<br>
  Things are thinking up for Europe's cable television providers, with the big 
  <br>
  players managing to pay off most of their numerous debts. [International <br>
  Herald Tribune]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=382448">International 
  Herald Tribune</A></p>
<p><br>
  STUDIES<br>
  According to a study appearing in the April issue of "Pediatrics," 
  children <br>
  as young as one year of age can be harmed by overexposure to television. [Times 
  <br>
  of India]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381709">Times 
  of India<br>
  </A></p>
<p><br>
  TECHNOLOGY<br>
  This past week's MIP-TV festival saw the launch of the first-ever soap opera 
  <br>
  for mobile phones. With episodes of "Hotel Franklin" lasting just 
  one minute, <br>
  News Corp., which produces it, hopes that that is the perfect length for busy 
  <br>
  people viewing it on their phones. [Yahoo! News]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381590">Yahoo! 
  News<br>
  </A></p>
<p><br>
  UNIONS<br>
  The last time the Writers Guild of America had to renegotiate its contact <br>
  with Hollywood Studios, an all-out war almost broke out. Contracts are again 
  up <br>
  for renegotiation in less than a month, but Tinseltown seems surprisingly <br>
  unperturbed. [Los Angeles Times]<br>
  <A 
  HREF="http://www.latimes.com:80/business/printedition/la-fi-wga5apr05,1,2772368.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business">Los 
  Angeles Times </A></p>
<p><br>
  FILM<br>
  Though film trailers generally air at theaters before being shown in homes, 
  <br>
  Sony, which is distributing the upcoming "Spider-Man 2," will air 
  the trailer <br>
  for the film during an episode of the Donald Trump reality series, "The 
  <br>
  Apprentice." [USA Today] <br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381717">USA 
  Today</A></p>
<p>Though the new "Pink Panther" film starring Steve Martin won't be 
  in theaters <br>
  for almost a year, MGM, banking that it will be a success, is opening the <br>
  first-ever retail store devoted exclusively to the bumbling Inspector Jacques 
  <br>
  Clouseau, in Shanghai. [Yahoo! News]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381737">Yahoo! 
  News<br>
  </A></p>
<p>"Hotel Rwanda," a new film being shot in South Africa, is using actual 
  Tutsi <br>
  refugees who fled the genocide, as extras. [The Guardian]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381802">The 
  Guardian<br>
  </A></p>
<p>"Misafa Lesafa (From Language to Language)," a film by director Nurit 
  Aviv, <br>
  won the award for best film at Israel's DocAviv documentary film festival in 
  <br>
  Tel Aviv. [Haaretz]<br>
  <A HREF="http://test.presstoday.com/show_article.php?id=381861">Haaretz 
  </A></p>
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  ROAD TO L.A. SCREENINGS<br>
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  <br>
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  <br>
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  in <br>
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  on <br>
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  <br>
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  DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS, THERE WILL NO PAPER CLIPS NEXT WEEK. PAPER CLIPS WILL <br>
  RETURN MONDAY, APRIL 19.</p>
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