Don't hate the player, hate the game" has become a refrain of reality shows, an imperative so categorical that it admits no response. Shouted from the window of a reality mansion, or out the window of a reality limousine, it means something like - and paraphrase is murder - "Don't blame me because I'm better than you; it's the system that's unfair."

Cox Enterprises on Monday made investors in its Cox Communications cable subsidiary an offer that they almost - literally - can't refuse.

Men's cable channel Spike TV is stepping onto the dance floor with "The Club," a reality series that will chronicle the goings-on at a dance establishment in Las Vegas.

Satirist-commentator Al Franken will return to his TV roots next month when his radio show begins appearing on cable's Sundance Channel.

French advertising group Havas is in talks with a potential financial backer to buy U.S. rival Grey Global, it confirmed on Tuesday, but investors remain concerned about its ability to fund the deal.

The family that controls a majority of Cox Communications Inc. on Monday offered to take the No. 4 U.S. cable television provider private for $7.9 billion in cash.

Accused this summer of being rogues, reprobates and outright thieves, executives of the Fox network are so far laughing all the way to the Nielsen bank. Meanwhile, the long-suffering ABC network is feeling like the outraged victim of the joke.

Filmmaker Michael Moore's Bush-bashing documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" has apparently upset more than Republicans. The Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington said Friday it sent a letter to Moore and the film's distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., asking for an apology for using what it said was a doctored front page in his movie.

Some TV viewers might not be aware that former President Carter, Al Gore and Al Sharpton all spoke at last week's Democratic convention. They certainly heard from Bill O'Reilly, Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews, though.

TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature -- the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people.