TV Land features television moguls
NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. cable's TV Land is featuring a six-part documentary series entitled "TV Land Moguls," focusing on the top producers in each decade of television.
Hosted by Merv Griffin and narrated by actor Adam Arkin, each one-hour installment chronicles the creative pioneers who left their mark on a series of shows in each decade.
The first documentary premieres April 21 at 9:00 p.m., ET, followed by a block of programs representing the work of the moguls featured in the documentary. The remaining documentaries, produced by CBS News Productions, will follow each week on Wednesday in the same time slot.
For example, in golden age of television in the 1950s, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas developed breakthrough television production and three-camera filming of character-driven sitcoms before live audience.
Episodes of "Love Lucy," "Make Room for Daddy, "The Andy Griffith Show," and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" among others will be aired following the first documentary.
'2004 MTV Video Music Awards' in Miami
NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- Van Toffler, president of MTV & MTV2, has announced the "2004 MTV Video Music Awards" will be broadcast live from Miami.
The "2004 Video Music Awards" is scheduled to air live from American Airlines Arena in Miami on Sunday, Aug. 29th at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
Bumped from New York City because of the Republican National Convention, for the first time in the 20-year history of the MTV Video Music Awards the show will be held outside of New York City and Los Angeles.
"The VMAs are always the biggest, craziest party of the year, and Miami is a beautiful backdrop for this summer's show," said Van Toffler.
"When we made the decision to move the VMAs this year, we found a perfect host in Miami, a town with a rich musical heritage and strong cultural diversity."
Female singers banned on Afghan TV
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, April 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in the eastern Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan have banned female singers from television broadcasts.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press reported Saturday the management of the state-run television in Jalalabad was ordered to stop broadcasting performances of women singers with "immediate effect."
During the period the Taliban was in power, women had been banned from all television broadcasts, but under the post-Taliban Afghan Transitional Administration, women had returned to television, but mainly in news programs.
A Jan. 12 broadcast in Kabul aired the singer Salma from footage of 1970s and 1980s.
'Lost' Valentino film found after 75 years
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 17 (UPI) -- "Beyond the Rocks," a silent movie made in 1922 starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson has been found in the Netherlands.
The movie has been considered lost for 75 years, the BBC reported Saturday.
The movie, which is in good condition except for two minutes, was part of a collection of 2,000 film canisters willed to the Dutch Filmmuseum by a private collector.
The Filmmuseum, in Amsterdam, will restore the film, repairing scratches and other minor damage. A new score has been commissioned to be ready when the film is featured at an Amsterdam movie festival next year.
The 81-minute romantic melodrama is about a woman pushed into a marriage with an older man but who then falls for Valentino's character on her honeymoon.
