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· Meryl Streep dazzles foreigners with her ability to perform the splits in mid-air, as the early international release of Mamma Mia has audiences around the globe wishing every paternity test could be set to the infectious pop-standards of ABBA. [Variety]
· GLAAD pats ABC on the head for being gays-friendly, but FX is still the most transgender-curious network on basic cable! [Variety]
· Greg Berlanti signs a five-year deal with ABC Studios, where he'll continue to oversee his current three series Brothers & Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone, while helping the studio in their ongoing mandate to borrow great foreign show ideas. [THR]
· Jon Heder and his identical twin Dan are producing Loudermilk, about "a Napoleon Dynamite-like oddball who becomes contaminated with a substance that gives him what might arguably be considered superpowers." Great World of Sound writer/director Craig Zobel has been hired to attempt to make it not suck. [THR]
· DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals are doing strongly despite the rest of the economy floating in the Andy Gump. [THR]