Make 'em watch ads! Desperate to make up for commercial-skipping on DVRs, TV networks are scrambling to find even more new ways to slip advertising into shows. The Associated Press' report quotes an NBC exec named Ed Swindler.
Update from Cannes: The Weinstein Co. has snapped up the Joy Division biopic Control. (Hollywood Reporter)
HBO wants to make a show based on Joan Didion's The Year Of Magical Thinking, broadcasting a one-woman-show adaptation currently starring Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway. (Variety)
Charles Nelson Reilly, an actor who won a Tony award before really becoming famous on game shows and late-night talk shows, has died at 76. (Variety)
The ever-mooching Family Guy will parody Star Wars next season, with the official approval of George Lucas. (Variety)