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TELEVISION
NBC has 'Friends' spinoff in works for fall TV season
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Friends is paring down to one friend.
Matt LeBlanc will star in a spinoff of the hit NBC comedy that will wrap up a 10-year run with the 2003-04 season, NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker announced July 24.
Joey will take over the 8 p.m. Thursday time slot held by Friends.
"You probably would never have predicted this when it began, but over the evolution of that show Joey has emerged as the character that America roots for and loves," Zucker told the Television Critics Association.
Viewers want "to see what happens to him as his life goes on," Zucker said.
Joey Trbbiani, now a soap star living in New York.
LeBlanc
ni, now a soap star living in New York, may move to Los Angeles, Zucker said. The rest of the cast has yet to be determined.
Left out are Friends co-stars Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Courtney Cox Arquette. The Emmy-nominated LeBlanc was the only one approached about a new series, Zucker said.
The castmates had negotiated $1 million- anepisode salaries for all in the ninth season. LeBlanc's pay for Joey was not discussed, but the network release noted his deal calls for him to star in two feature films for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Friends is produced by Warner Bros. Television. LeBlanc's film credits include small roles in the two Charlie's Angels movies, Lost in Space and Ed.
Zucker was asked if continuing suspense over the relationship between Joey and Aniston's Rachel is killed because she's not part of the spinoff. He replied by promising a strong final year for Friends.
"Without giving anything away, I think there are still quite a few surprises in store," he said.
The sitcom's final season will include only 18 new episodes. NBC will round out the season with six episodes from past seasons, with viewers invited to vote for their favorite.
FCC station proposal blocked
LEGISLATION
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - House lawmakers voted July 23, to block a new regulation that would allow individual companies to buy up television stations reaching nearly half the nation's viewers.
The provision, included in a spending bill approved 400-21, would roll back part of a Federal Communications Commission decision overhauling decades-old restrictions governing ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations.
That June 2 ruling by the Republican-dominated FCC was a victory for media companies who sought relaxed rules.
Opponents, from consumer groups to songwriters to small broadcasters, said the changes could lead to a wave of mergers leaving a dwindling number of companies controlling what people see, hear and read.
They are urging Congress to roll
House lawmakers voted July 23 to block a new regulation that would allow individual companies to buy up television stations reaching nearly half the nation's viewers. The provision would roll back part of a FCC decision overhauling decades-old restrictions governing ownership.
back all the changes, but the House measure only addresses TV station ownership. The FCC voted to allow single companies to own TV stations reaching 45 percent of U.S. households. The House measure would return the cap to 35 percent.
The fight now moves to the Senate, where several lawmakers of both parties want to include a similar provision in their version of the spending bill. Broader rollback efforts also are being considered.
Top Republicans are hoping that, with leverage from the threat of a
first-ever veto by President Bush the final House-Senate compromise bill later this year will drop the provision.
The FCC also allowed individual companies to own more TV stations in some cities and largely ended a ban on one company owning a newspaper and a broadcast station in a community.
The committee voted last month for a bill that would undo much of the FCC changes, including rolling back the ownership cap and reinstating the broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership ban.
Many media companies said the FCC changes were needed because the old restrictions hindered their ability to grow and compete in a market changed by cable TV, satellite broadcasts and the Internet.
The FCC provision was included last week in a $37.9 billion measure financing the departments of Commerce, State and Justice next year.
FILM
Disney's movies available online
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Scores of Disney films such as Chicago and Monsters Inc. will soon be available for downloading off the Internet through a licensing deal reached between the entertainment giant and online movie service Movielink, the companies said.
The agreement between The Walt Disney Co. subsidiary of Buena Vista Pay Television and Movielink was finalized last week. Financial terms were not disclosed.
dios except one — Twentieth Century Fox Studios — and boosts its library of digitized films to around 400 from the 175 the company had when it launched eight months ago.
The deal gives Movielink access to film titles from all the major stu-
Movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, Miramax and Dimension New Releases will be available through the service.
Among the first releases will be Gangs of New York, The Recruit and The Jungle Book 2.
Plans by Disney to develop a video-on-demand service called MovieBeam this fall were still on, a Disney spokeswoman said.
Unlike Movielink, MovieBeam
would deliver films directly to consumers televisions through a settop box.
Disney will set the retail price for the movie downloads, which typically range between $2.95 and $4.99, Movielink said.
The movie files can be viewed on a PC or on a television connected to a computer, but customers have a maximum of 30 days to begin watching their downloaded movie.
Once they begin to do so, the movie can be viewed only over the next 24 hours.
A computer with a broadband Internet connection is necessary to use the service.
Emily, Jacob top names for babies. KDHE says
RANKINGS
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Jacob remained the most popular name for new baby boys in 2002, for the eighth consecutive year. The most popular girls' name, Emily, was new.
The state Department of Health and Environment today released its annual list of the 25 most popular names for new babies of each gender, based on information gathered from Kansas birth certificates.
Emily replaced Kaitlyn as the most popular girl's name, with Kaitlyn dropping to second place.
KDHE said 272 newborn girls were named Emily in 2002, compared to 270 named Kaitlyn.
For newborn boys, Jacob was by far the most popular name, given to 373 infants. Ethan was number two, given to 242 boys.
Dropping out of the top 25 for girls were Anna, Jessica and Megan. Dropping from the list for boys were Brandon, Christian, Christopher, Nathan and Ryan.
The top 25 girls' names were:
Emily, Kaitlyn, Haley, Madison,
Abigail, Hannah, Emma, Alexis,
Elizabeth, Kaylee, Grace, Lauren,
Brianna, MacKenzie, Ashley,
Makayla, Taylor, Sarah, Olivia,
Sydney, Madeline, Allison, Riley,
Alvssa and Katherine.
the top 25 boys' names were: Jacob, Ethan, Zachary, Nicholas, Caleb, Andrew, Joshua, Michael, Caden, Matthew, William, Braden, Tyler, Austin, Alexander, Joseph, Dylan, Aidan, Gabriel, Noah, Isaac, Logan, Daniel, John and Samuel.
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