- Septuagenarian Show To Go Off The Air. "Guiding Light," the soap opera that has been running -- first on the radio, then on TV -- for 72 years, will go off the air, CBS announced yesterday. The soap launched the careers of Kevin Bacon, James Earl Jones and Calista Flockhart, among others. After a move to a reality-show-style filming last year to compete with more-watched competitors, "GL" ratings still stayed low (around 2 million). [BBC News]
- 'Runway' Officially On Lifetime. "Project Runway" has finally -- finally! -- emerged from its legal entanglement, and the move from Bravo to Lifetime is certain. This comes after a lot of complicated negotiations and crap that I re-post here. But the silver lining is that the sixth season of the show will air at some point in the future, and on some channel. So that's more than we knew last week. [Washington Post]
- Chris Nolan Tries To Woo Some Knock-out Brunettes. Oscar nominee Ellen Page, Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and Irish creepster Cillian Murphy (Scarecrow in "Batman Begins"/"The Dark Knight") are being efforted for "Inception," Nolan's latest project that's being kept under super-secret wraps. Leonardo DiCaprio is already set to star, and Nolan both wrote and will direct the project. All Warner Bros. will say is that it's a modern-day science fiction action film, and per Variety, "set within the architecture of the mind." Sounds kind of... "Prestige"-y? [Variety]
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