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WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Acorn Media announces it has secured exclusive North American distribution rights for the 1979 NBC miniseries "Backstairs at the White House." Acorn's DVD release of the nine-hour series will be a four-disc boxed set available in stores on Nov.

Saturday Night Live's Kevin Nealon and Angels in America's Justin Kirk also star.

Widows," "Against All Evidence," "Balls" Anyone who can helm "Balls," a comedy about a gay soccer team, into a heart-winning attraction for even hetero nonsports fans players has to be worth a mention.

Character actor J.D. Cannon, who played Dennis Weaver's NYPD boss on "McCloud," died May 20 in Hudson, N.Y.

Although they brought us Monty Python , British comics usually go for a more mature approach to comedy.

The Nicktoons Film Festivalis the only on-air animated film festival dedicated to showcasing the work of independent animation filmmakers.

He shares special WWII sites with USA TODAY's Shawn Sell. Marco Polo Bridge Outside Beijing "This 800-year-old bridge is the place where Japanese and Chinese troops clashed on July 7, 1937, and is considered by most historians to be the spot where the first shots of World War II were fired," Carroll says.

LOS ANGELES, March 29 -- Showtime Networks has joined with IDT Entertainment's New Arc Entertainment, Industry Entertainment and Nice Guy Productions to present a shockingly entertaining new anthology series entitled Masters of Horror.

The period leading up to the Academy Awards is a heady time for any Oscar nominee.

The struggle and the arts are connected almost by definition,'' Ossie Davis once said.

The recorded voice of an Auschwitz death camp survivor told visitors to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum that, exactly 60 years ago, Allied troops freed her from a kind of inferno.

In another TV life, of course, O'Neill was Katey Sagal's husband, back when they were Married .

Thesp William Boyett died Dec. 29 of complications from pneumonia and kidney failure.

NBC, Feb. 1978 King , a solid mini-series about the life of Dr.

Ross and Rachel got together on "Friends," and the series ended so we know they can't split.

A glance back at soap operas--and the meta-soap sendups that have kept the American fanny on the American sofa for half a century and counting.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Jenny Gersten, associate producer at Williamstown Theater Festival, will not be part of the new leadership team under newly appointed artristic director Roger Rees, who takes the reins at the Massachusetts theater in January.

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New Hampshire primary and continuing through the Democratic National Convention.

SYDNEY When Des Monaghan was head of drama for Australia's Seven Network, he teamed up with the U.K.'s London Weekend Television to pitch to CBS a miniseries about a female convict transported from Blighty to the penal colony of Australia in 1788.

The Invasion of the Tinysauruses Universal's latest installment of its animated video premiere series arrives on Jan.

Don't look for an escape on TV, where every day will soon be Election Day, even where you'd least expect it.

Meryl Streep is reportedly to star in the remake of a 1948 Oscar-winning political drama "All the King's Men" along with Sean Penn and Jude Law.

Star By Staff Backstage at the Emmy Awards last week, actress Drea de Matteo couldn't be baited into biting the hand that's now feeding her - the Peacock Network.

It's no accident that Home Box Office released Angels in America on DVD just five days before the Emmy awards.

It was HBO's year for the Emmys, even more this year than in the recent past.

Los Angeles- The headlines last week trumpeted Home Box Office's Emmy Awards triumph - 16 awards in the major primetime categories - as continuing evidence of cable's ascendancy.

Everybody Loves Raymond The first season of the TV sitcom starring Ray Romano was released by HBO Video Sept.

HBO received 32 Primetime Emmy Awards at the 56th annual event Sept.

By Linda Haugsted In late summer, there's no more active sport in Hollywood than "guess the winners." I made my predictions on who would pick up the drama Emmys, and then sealed them.