· A video game version of The Sopranos is going forward with much of the show's cast, and with David Chase co-writing a story about Big Pussy's bastard son fighting with Philly mob. However, to get to the action, gamers will have to sit through an unskippable two-hour sequence involving Tony's strange dream about an unconsummated hunt for a cheesesteak. [Variety]
· Catherine Zeta-Jones in negotiations to play Harry Houdini's "exotic" psychic (will she ever escape such pernicious typecasting?) love interest in the in the biopic Death Defying Acts. [THR]
· CW head Dawn Ostroff will gather her lieutenants today in a secret bunker underneath the Warners Bros. lot, where they will decide which select few programs will be doomed to the obscurity of their new network's schedule. [Variety]
· Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Williams, Forest Whitaker, and Catherine O'Hara have all been recruited to provide voices in Spike Jonze's adapation of Where the Wild Things Are. [THR]
· Fox continues to bludgeon mercilessly all comers with American Idol, but last night upped the Nielsen brutality with the second part of a two-hour House special. [Variety]

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