ABC TV's Andrew Denton, Chris Lilley and Adam Hills will go up against past winners Rove McManus, Kate Ritchie and Lisa McCune for this year's Gold Logie for Australia's Most Popular Television Personality.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration reports that they have received requests from over one million American households for $40 government coupons since Tuesday. The coupons are to help the owners of analog sets pay for converter boxes.

Television can encourage awareness of political perspectives among Americans, but the incivility and close-up camera angles that characterize much of today’s “in your face” televised political debate also causes audiences to react more emotionally and think of opposing views as less legitimate.

Striking Hollywood writers have rejected a new contract offer from producers, the two sides say, three weeks into a dispute that has disrupted the film and television industry.

The Hollywood writers strike against major studios will cost at least $US21 million ($24 million) a day in television production spending alone and idle 10,000 workers if it lasts much longer, experts say.

After weeks of overseeing efforts to fight raging fires and an oil spill, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is weighing in on another potential disaster - the screenwriters strike against film and TV studios.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria joined in as more than 3,000 film and television writers demonstrated in Hollywood on the fifth day of a strike, which has hobbled the entertainment industry with no resolution in sight.

Actor Robin Williams delivered bagels and walked the Writers Guild of America's (WGA) picket line in New York, joined by the likes of David Duchovny and Tim Robbins.

The writers strike has struck down the Fox thriller "24." "24" is absent from the network's revised, strike-affected schedule for midseason. In its announcement, Fox explained the "Day 7" season for the series would be indefinitely postponed to ensure an uninterrupted run.

The fall of New York's Twin Towers during the September 11 terrorist attacks has been voted the most memorable TV moment of the past 50 years in a British poll.

The outrageous soap opera Passions will celebrate its move from NBC to DIRECTV's original entertainment channel, The 101, by attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the "Largest Halloween Gathering" in honor of resident head witch Tabitha's 300th birthday.

SatTV to offer interactive news and bespoke conference services