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New York's Morgan Spurlock, the indie doc film director who gave us Super Size Me and the upcoming Sundance entry Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, has just signed a deal with Fox to develop both "scripted and nonscripted" fare with Fox, according to Variety.  read more »

A few weeks’ work on a kiddy flick in exchange for the down payment on a house with a stream seemed logical enough to 43-year-old comedian David Cross, but to a certain Internet-empowered subset of his fans, this was nothing short of a betrayal.  read more »

Fox and ABC came to opposite conclusions about what to do with two popular shows with seasons left incomplete when the writers' strike begain. Fox is postponing the premiere of its popular series, 24, rather than begin to air a season that isn't finished; but ABC will go ahead and air episodes of Lost, which is also incomplete.  read more »

Yesterday, Alpha Media Group--the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million--announced plans to fold Stuff, the shopping-centered T&A men's magazine, and resurrect it as a regular section in its lad mag, Maxim.

Maxim and Blender will be the chief beneficiaries of the new owners' money and time from now on, with plans to increase the rate-base for Blender, the music and lifestyle magazine, to 1 million by January 2009.

Maxim will get "Stuff for Men" as a section of the magazine, now that the title no longer has to compete with FHM magazine, the other lad-shopping mag.

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