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Fox adds comedy, thriller to TV's strongest lineup Reuters - 1 hour ago By Paul Thomasch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fox Broadcasting Co. on Thursday rolled out a fall television schedule that adds a science-fiction thriller from one of TV's hottest producers and a workplace comedy to a lineup that is already tops with viewers. Only 2 new shows on Fox network in the fall The Associated Press FOX Exec: Happy with 'American Idol' creatively, not its performance Zap2it.com Charlotte Observer - E! Online - Los Angeles Times - Broadcasting & Cable all 162 news articles

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Warren Cowan, one of the last of the super publicists who helped make Hollywood the glamour capital of the world, has died. He was 87....

AP - CANNES, France (AP) — Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.

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Rest assured, this won't be the first or last time you hear of insects and mammals being used as inspiration for robotic creatures. Nevertheless, a recent MIT mechanical engineering course saw students craft bots that could handle "beaver-like tasks" such as "knocking down trees and gathering food in the form of street hockey balls" while fending off competitors in 45-second rounds. Separately, the EU-funded SPARK endeavor is seeking to "develop a new robot control architecture for roving robots inspired by the principles governing the behavior of living systems and based on the concept of self-organization." There's plenty more material to make your skin crawl in the read links below, just don't feed the mechs, okay?

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Fox speaks geek. The network unveiled fall—and spring—schedules fit for Comic-Con, replete with new series by Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams, a Family Guy spinoff, a returning...

A biologist from East Carolina University has named a newly discovered species of spider after Neil Young, Gigwise reports. Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, a trapdoor spider, was discovered by Jason Bond in Alabama.

Today there's been some talk about M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, The Happening. Unfortunately, it hasn't been very positive. An early review of the film popped up on Collider.com, and it's so negative that it almost makes me want to...

They've already pushed the release of Weezer III up by a few weeks "due to popular demand and the intense reaction to the 'Pork and Beans' single" (akin to indigestion, I'd say), and now, Weezer are throwing even more Red Album at us and hoping it sticks.

A digital single for the "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" has made its way to the U.S. iTunes store, and, well, here's a sample lyric: "I've got the money/ And I've got the fame/ You've got the hots / To ride on my plane." So, yeah, pretty much another "Beverly Hills".

We've also caught wind of the extra goodies Polydor have thrown on the Red Album for its June 9 digital/June 16 physical release in the UK. In addition to the ten tracks from the regular old U.S. release, Weezer tackle the Band's "The Weight" and Talk Talk's "Life Is What You Make It". The U.S. deluxe edition, as you know, sports four very different bonus cuts. It, as with the regular edition, is due June 3 from DGC/Interscope. [MORE...]

Good news for left coast gayers who want the same right to be miserable as their straight counterparts: "California's supreme court ruled that a ban on gay marriage was unlawful Thursday, effectively leaving same-sex couples in America's most populous

Web Exclusive: Aaron Schneider to direct -- Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek have boarded "Get Low," a thriller based on the real-life story of Felix Bush, a reclusive figure who lived in Tennessee during the early 20th century.

So Nigger didn't come out late last year, as planned. But don't you worry. The controversially-titled new LP from Nas (his follow-up 2006's controversially-titled Hip-Hop Is Dead), not unlike the issues he addresses on it, isn't just going to conveniently vanish.

Originally slated for release in 2007, then bumped to February, then April, the album is now due, head-turning title intact, July 1 on Def Jam. Due very tentatively, it goes without saying.

Nas recently sat down with MTV.com to preview and discuss his latest opus. Addressing the delay, he told the website, "Somebody asked me, what's your inspiration for this album? Everything that's happening every day. I can't really turn an album in when, like, next week it will be something else that will come to light and make me want to write about something. It's hard to finally wrap it up, but I finally got there. I'm finally there now...This year looks like it's going to be amazing."

Nigger will include the tracks "Project Roach", which has Nas rapping from the perspective of the reviled insect, and "Y'all My Niggers", on which the MC delves into the history of the titular epithet. Other songs include "This Is Not America", produced by Stargate, "Sly Fox", produced by Stic.Man of Dead Prez, and the title track.

As of a February MTV.com report, an unnamed DJ Khaled-produced track and a Polow Da Don-produced number called "My Legacy" were jockeying for first single status. Another track called "Be a Nigger Too", co-produced by long-time Nas knob-twiddler Salaam Remi and Big Jack, recently surfaced as well.

Jermaine Dupri and DJ Toomp are also rumored to have produced tracks on Nigger, and Rick Ross, the LOX, and both halves of Dead Prez will potentially guest on the record.

In other Nas news, according to a Billboard.com report, the rapper guests on the forthcoming Ice Cube album, Raw Footage. He'll also link up with the 2008 Rock the Bells tour for the duration of its summer run, but not before playing a handful of shows this month up north. [MORE...]

The band Mudhoney, like their record label Sub-Pop, is celebrating their 20th year of existance. This Tuesday, May 20, Mudhoney are putting out a favorites/previously-unreleased collection, Superfuzz Bigmuff Deluxe Edition, in addition to releasing a brand new album, The Lucky Ones.

(left: Twenty years in the game and still goin'.)

Here's a track from Lucky Ones:

I'm Now.mp3

And here's one from Superfuzz Bigmuff Deluxe Edition:

In 'n Out of Grace.mp3

For the youngsters out there, Mudhoney helped make the whole early-90's "grunge" revolution possible, by achieving a moderate amount of success, which made it possible for other bands (i.e., Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) to achieve even more success. Mudhoney never got the big payday, but sometimes that's the price of being a trailblazer. At times though, it seems like they were having more fun.

As summer nears, so do the releases of animated films featuring pretty darn cute creatures, like the wide-eyed WALL•E and chubby Kung Fu Panda. But Jack Black and Cee-Lo Green are one-uppping the robot film in the name of martial arts bears everywhere. How are they doing it? With a cover of Carl Douglas' 1974 karaoke staple "Kung Fu Fighting," of course.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Rodney Atkins is still surprised when people recognize him in the grocery store nowadays. But give it time....