· Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks are cast in Kevin Smith's Zach and Miri Make a Porno, the story of two platonic friends who try to use the power of hardcore pornography to solve their debt problems. As the actors previously appeared together in The 40 Year Old Virgin, this film represents the kind of re-teaming effort that drives us so wild with delight. [Variety]
· In one of the final Thursday night shoot-outs at the Nielsen Corral before the networks expend all of their first-run-episode ammunition, CBS defeats ABC. [THR]

· In response to their former evening news anchor's $70 million lawsuit, CBS basically calls Dan Rather a crazy old coot desperately trying to keep his name in the press. [Variety]
· WGA strike picket line ubiquity Katherine Heigl will star in the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth for the re-teamed (see above re: re-teaming joy) writers and director of Legally Blonde. [THR]
· Tim Burton partners with Disney for two 3-D films, Alice and Wonderland and Frankenweenie, sure to become instant classics for fans of hallucinogenic substances. [Variety]