Americans spend the most time online, but Brits are catching up. This is according to the third annual Intl. Communications Market report conducted by British media regulator Ofcom, which looked at global trends in TV, the Internet and cell phone usage. On average, Americans spent 15 hours a week online last year. In Blighty, where Internet usage per subscriber has risen fastest, Netizens spent nearly 14 hours a week.
Despite the increased use of the web, TV viewing levels remained strong. In the U.S., Ofcom estimated that on average auds watched 4.5 hours of TV a day last year. In Europe, tube addiction is less severe. Polish viewers watched more TV than the other European countries at four hours a day, while the Swedes watched the least at 2.6 hours a day. Brits consume 3.6 hours of TV a day on average. Spaniards spent the least time online of all Europeans -- 7.5 hours a week.
MALA BHATTACHARJEE: Pearl Clutchers Anonymous"I thought [ATWT's] Noah was repressed, but Brian's repression puts his to shame. He is so tightly controlled and courtly, and he dotes on Lucinda. Seeing him kiss Luke was mindblowing — and yet also made a LOT of sense. I don't know about anyone else, but the whole time he was protesting the Nuke PDA and cautioning Luke against the Foundation supporting the Big Gay Film Festival, I got a distinct tinge of 'the gentleman doth protest too much.'"
Also, check out Mala's highlights from Super Soap Weekend.
ATWT's Van Hansis on his "Dance Dance Revolution" character
"Wiggles is a fun-loving, dumpster-diving, teenage renegade. He grew up in the landfill on the south side of town, watching cartoons from the eighties. The nineteen eighties. Like way old school. He and Jaquise have been besties 4FR. Turnons: sequined gloves, busting hot moves, arithmetic. Turnoffs: making decisions, thinking about any sort of consequence that his actions may have, and books without pictures."
Untangling the John Aniston, Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer and Brangelina Gordian Knot
John Mayer met (in person) John Aniston of DAYS OF OUR LIVES fame and father to one Jennifer Aniston. Star Magazine reports that the couple had dinner with John and Jennifer's stepmother on November 20th
Citing a mysterious eyewitness -- who seems to have hidden in the terrine for all the details s/he could give about the outing - there is reasonable hope that this relationship is not only on-again, but hot and blazing.
GOSSIP Guy Nixes Contract
GOSSIP GIRL third-stringer Connor Paolo, who plays Blake Lively's little (and recently outed) brother, Eric van der Woodsen, has rejected an offer from the show to become a series regular.
So what's the deal? Is he scared to be gaycast, as Thomas Dekker allegedly was circa HEROES? Nah. The ONE LIFE TO LIVE alum is "totally comfortable playing a gay character." More likely, it's about dollars and common sense.
The contract offered called for him to appear in only half of this season's 25 episodes, which is about what he's been averaging as a recurring player, anyway. So, basically, by remaining a free agent, he's got the same gig with none of the strings attached.
Berlanti's ELI STONE canceled, Is DIRTY SEXY MONEY next?
ABC officials also would not comment on the fate of DIRTY SEXY MONEY, which Greg Berlanti also produces. The dramedy, starring Peter Krause, has suffered from low ratings all season and is not expected to survive. Berlanti could not immediately be reached for comment.
John Thomson's "loveable" soap role
John Thomson has described his CORONATION STREET character as "loveable". The COLD FEET star is making a highly anticipated cameo appearance in the ITV soap next month.
"I play an electrician stroke children's entertainer called Jesse. He's funny and loveable. It'll be shown on TV on the 15th of December."
Burnet: I'm proud of gay storylineGuy Burnet is proud of being involved in ground-breaking HOLLYOAKS storylines, as he returns in the soap's spin-off mini series, HOLLYOAKS LATER.
"I can't tell even you how proud I am, it was basically the baby of me, James and (producer) Bryan Kirkwood and we worked on it really hard for two years. Initially the idea was that it would be a gay relationship between these two guys, but I don't think that's as interesting as flawed characteristics. So you had John Paul coming out as being gay and proud, but he had to deal with his family's religion and then you have something that was never covered in any medium, which was a character who was heterosexual who you then had to justify being attracted to a man,. In doing my research, I found a lot of people who perhaps were married with children and then discovered they had gay tendencies.
You can't categorise Craig Dean in any way, he said 'I don't know what I am, I'm confused', which I know p****d a lot of people off, but I think there were a lot of people out there who related to that and they're the people I wanted to do it for."
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