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Art

• One of Francis Bacon’s Pope paintings is up for auction next month.

Commercials

• Bruce Campbell is going to be the new face of Old Spice in the US!

Film

• Apocalypto has had the best UK opening weekend for a foreign-language film.

British TV

• Sex channel Look4Love becomes the first (?) channel to lose its broadcasting licence because it failed to pay a fine.

US TV

• Fox has a trio of new pilots: Canterbury’s Law, about a rebellious female defence attorney; Supreme Courtships, which is about the personal and professional lives of six Supreme Court clerks; and an untitled comedy drama about the lives and loves of nurses.
• NBC has greenlit two pilots as well: one is a “light-hearted drama about a female police office”; the other is based on Candace Bushnell’s Lipstick Jungle, so there’s the hint of Sex and the City about it, apparently.
• There’s an interesting interview with Thomas Schlamme, exec producer of Studio 60, in a magazine. It’s a Christian magazine, incidentally.
• Erik Estrada got annoyed when someone called him Emilio Estevez.
• There’s a long interview on EW.com with Kiefer Sutherland about season six of 24
• From E!’s Kristin:
• Six Degrees should be back in the next two months.
• One of The Class‘s cast is leaving.
• Some juicy Prison Break spoilers.