The News Review:

- The new podcast with the SEX AND THE CITY review:
- Guardian Daily podcast: PM bids to save 42-day terror law; and…
- Worst (Best?) Reality (Unscripted?) Series Ever (Never?)

The new podcast with the SEX AND THE CITY review:
San Francisco Chronicle – Jun 2, 2008
day –>Monday June 02 2008Sex ThoughtsSo SEX AND THE CITY is a box office smash outperforming industry expectations by about 100 percent which means that today (or maybe this happened earlier) Michael Patrick King’s phone is ringing about a possible SEX AND THE CITY 2. Everyone will want a raise. Kim Cattrall will still want as much as Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis will want at least as much as Kim Cattrall and I’m sure we’ll be reading about that over the next months. But bottom line this will happen.

Guardian Daily podcast: PM bids to save 42-day terror law; and…
Guardian – Jun 2, 2008
Political editor Patrick Wintour says Gordon Brown will not attend the meeting as the government attempts to take the heat out of the debate. Meanwhile David Cameron’s marketing guru Steve Hilton is going to America. What does that mean for the Tories? Is Hillary Clinton’s campaign to become the Democratic presidential nominee now in its final days? Washington correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg has been on the campaign trail with Clinton in South Dakota which votes tomorrow in the last primary election. Economics editor Larry Elliott explains how financial institutions aided by governments have destabilised the global economy.

Worst (Best?) Reality (Unscripted?) Series Ever (Never?)
San Francisco Chronicle – Jun 2, 2008
“Surprise — I’m Not Really Dead!” in which a person’s family and friends are told he’s passed on — and hidden cameras are there when at the funeral the “dead body” walks into the room! Mucho hilarity ensues. “Who Wants To Adopt A Healthy White Infant?” where six infertile couples compete in baby-related tasks like speed-diaper changing and car-seat installation (preferably while sleep-deprived) in order to win the ultimate prize — a middle-class Caucasian teen mom’s newborn child. I think “The Ignorant American” is already sort of being done on Jay Leno’s “Battle of the Jaywalk All-Stars. Posted By: loudfan | June 02 2008 at 10:23 AMThis is an Olympic year so why not have an Olympics reality show? We’ll call it “Can You Make the Olympic Team?” A rag tag band of ordinary people will compete to join the actual Olympic team for a a small country perhaps Liechtenstein or Vanuatu. Naturally most will be fish out of water stories. A typical cast would include the 70′s TV Star (i.