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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Leading Japanese broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against ABC, charging that summer hit "Wipeout" is "a blatant copycat" of several of its classic Japanese competition series.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Meet "The Washingtoniennes."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" expands the Bravo reality brand that has already taken viewers to Orange County, Calif., and New York.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Here's a refreshingly sunny statistic for broadcasters: It's barely October, and 22% of new scripted series already have been picked up for full seasons.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - With the record-setting vp debate now history, it's back to the top of the ticket on Tuesday night.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Force was strong for Cartoon Network as "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" became the channel's most-watched series premiere ever.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - FX has picked up its modestly rated motorcycle-club drama "Sons of Anarchy" for a second season.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The CW's move to farm out its Sunday night bridge-to-nowhere primetime block isn't about to cause any seller's remorse.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ernest Borgnine has signed to star in Hallmark Channel's TV movie "The Wishing Well," which marks the 200th movie of his career.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has renewed its Hollywood-hipster comedy "Entourage," a month after the Emmy-winning series began its fifth season.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - In a possible preview of similar battles to come, TV station group Lin TV yanked the signals of 15 stations in 11 markets from Time Warner Cable systems, affecting about 2.7 million of the cable giant's subscribers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp will pay $104 million in damages to TiVo Inc after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Dish's appeal of a patent infringement case.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sarah Palin's televised showdown with Joe Biden drew nearly 70 million U.S. viewers, far surpassing last week's John McCain-Barack Obama face-off and ranking as the most watched vice presidential debate ever.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Four writers involved with a Writers Guild of America organizing effort at writer-director-producer Tyler Perry's cable TV show "House of Payne" have been fired.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Five months after he turned in his "Law & Order" badge, Jesse L. Martin is returning to NBC with a role in the drama series "The Philanthropist."

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Gerald K. Barclay's documentary "Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan" will premiere November 13 on BET, five days before its release on DVD. Through interviews and rare footage, the film chronicles the pioneering hip-hop group's rise from Staten Island.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There might be a green light in the red planet's future.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Canadian broadcaster CTV on Thursday ordered a new pilot from "Corner Gas" creator and star Brent Butt.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The actor who played muscular "Mr. Clean" in hundreds of dirt-busting television commercials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 92, his family said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film and television actors ratcheted up pressure on Hollywood's major studios on Wednesday when negotiators, stalled in labor talks with producers, sought backing to put a strike authorization vote to guild members.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Tish Cohen's tween-targeted novel "The Invisible Rules of the Zoe Lama" is being adapted as a live-action TV series by Canadian production company 9 Story Entertainment.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox has picked up a full-season order of J.J. Abrams' sci-fi thriller "Fringe."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Showtime's new comedy series "United States of Tara," starring Toni Collette, will debut January 18.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rosie O'Donnell is returning to television as host of a live variety show on NBC.

AMSTERDAM (Hollywood Reporter) - Dutch animal lovers on Tuesday (September 30) launched a national campaign to establish a public TV channel for animals and their owners.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In his first major collaboration with HBO, Norman Lear, who produced such landmark sitcoms as "All in the Family," "Maude," "The Jeffersons" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," has teamed with the premium cable network for a drama series set in the world of 1970s pro wrestling.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Partridge Family" is headed for a return to the small screen. NBC has picked up a contemporary single-camera take on the classic ABC sitcom.