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Film, TV casting briefs (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - Actress Spencer Locke has been cast in a guest spot on the CW's "Vampire Diaries." She will play Amber Bradley, a girl who enters a beauty pageant along with Elena and Caroline. Locke has appeared in the ABC series "Cougar Town," the film "Resident Evil: Extinction" and the Nick series "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide."
WB's reality shows an affront to female viewers (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - The CW is taking its largely female audience into two women-centric worlds with the reality shows "Fly Girls" and "High Society."
NBC renews "Miss Universe" pageant (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - Miss America may be searching for a new home, but NBC said Monday it has renewed its deal with Donald Trump and the Miss Universe organization to televise "Miss Universe" and "Miss USA" for three more years, beginning 2011.
ABC Family buys TV rights to "Alice" (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - Along with a monster box office haul in its opening weekend, Walt Disney Pictures' "Alice in Wonderland" has bagged a TV deal.
"Heroes" actor cast in new USA series (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - "Heroes" co-star Sendhil Ramamurthy is joining USA Network's new drama series "Covert Affairs" as a regular.
"Ed" star floats to "Edgar" crime drama at ABC (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - Former "Ed" star Tom Cavanagh has closed a deal to play the lead in ABC's drama pilot "Edgar Floats."
Sotheby's raises record sum at Amsterdam auction (Reuters)
March 9, 2010Reuters - An auction at Sotheby's of more than 160 works of post-war and contemporary art from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection exceeded all expectations on Monday, raising a record 13.6 million euros ($18.6 million).
Suburban NY mayor says 'SNL' got her city wrong (AP)
March 9, 2010AP - A suburban New York mayor wants to correct the record after "Saturday Night Live" made fun of her city.
Stay tuned: More fee disputes over local TV coming (AP)
March 9, 2010
AP - Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups.
Google, Dish testing new TV search service: report (Reuters)
March 9, 2010
Reuters - Google Inc and No. 2 U.S. satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp are jointly testing a television programing search service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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