Britain's ad police relent after bloody campaign (Reuters)
March 18, 2006Reuters - Australia said "bloody well done" on Saturday after Britain's television advertising regulator lifted a ban on an Australian tourism campaign centered on the slightly risqué phrase "bloody hell."
"South Park" Parked
March 18, 2006
"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have declared war on Scientology after Comedy Central pulled an episode mocking Tom Cruise Wednesday
"Trapped in the Closet," featuring a literally closeted Cruise and a primer on Scientology, was abruptly pulled from Comedy Central's schedule.
The network wouldn't confirm or comment Friday on why "Trapped in the Closet" was shelved, but some reports claim it came at the behest of Cruise.
Cruise's rep, however, did comment: "This has nothing to do with us," publicist Arnold Robinson said Friday.
"Office" Working Overtime
March 18, 2006
The pencil-pushers at Dunder Mifflin are being outsourced.
NBC announced Thursday that 10 new episodes of "The Office" will premiere on NBC.com this summer. The second TV season of the show has been cut short, with the season finale scheduled to air March 30, to give Steve Carell time off to film the upcoming "Evan Almighty."
With boss Michael Scott (Carell) out of the office and unavailable to throw his hilariously self-absorbed weight around, the workaday lives of Dunder Mifflin paper company's accounting staff are taking center stage.