NEWS: Dark Shadows, Rick Springfield, Lisa Rinna, Mark Valley

Rick Springfield addresses 'sex addict' reports, once attempted suicide
Springfield, 61 made his comments on ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA to promote his new book "Late, Late At Night." The title is a lyric from the song.

When asked about reports of being a "sex addict," Springfield said that sex "calmed a lot of things in me," adding: "It's something that I did because it made me feel better about myself. If this person is willing to have sex with me, than she must think I'm okay. It became, like any drug, a habit. Once I took enough time off to be away from it and got out of the habit of it, it was much easier not to do it."

Johnny Depp on his interest in DARK SHADOWS (movie version starts shooting Feb. 2011
"Tim [Burton] and I have tossed the idea for Dark Shadows over the years. It was a TV program in the States in the late 60s and early 70s that I remember watching as a kid. I was obsessed with this character, Barnabas Collins, who was a vampire. I came to find out many years later that when he was a kid, Tim ran home like I did to watch that Gothic soap opera. It was a very strange thing back then.We looked at ways to go, story-wise. We've started to come up with something interesting."

Web Ad Spending Sets Half-Year Record
Advertisers spent $12.1 billion on the Web during the first half of 2010, a record for a half-year period, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Spending climbed by 11.3 percent vs. the same period in 2009.

Parents TV Council publishing a list of shows with erectile dysfunction ads
The conservative watchdog is teaming with the makers of Cialis and Viagra to publish a list of shows that will warn parents about potentially embarrassing erectile dysfunction ads.

Salon.com: GLEE could be great -- if it weren't so awful
"The imaginative, off-kilter dramedy is back, and it's better -- and worse -- than ever."

Lisa Rinna will be on CELEBRITY APPRENTICE
The new season is scheduled to air in early 2011.

"National Weeds Awareness Week"
TV Guide Network, which has picked up reruns of Showtime's WEEDS, has proclaimed next week "National Weeds Awareness Week" to hype its upcoming launch of the series. Beginning this Sunday and running through next Friday (Oct. 22), the network will air a six-day WEEDS marathon from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. each night.

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CHiPs Larry Wilcox was an undercover informant
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department accused Mr. Wilcox and several others last week of securities fraud, saying they had paid illegal kickbacks in order to manipulate the share prices of penny-stock companies, Mr. Wilcox’s being a California operation called the UC Hub Group. But what federal prosecutors did not say was that in regard to the criminal charges against him, Mr. Wilcox, 63, pleaded guilty months ago – and agreed to go undercover to assist federal law enforcement officials with their investigation.

What Mark Valley learned from DAYS OF OUR LIVES
"I learned that if you go into the shower, you might not come out," he muses to Zap2it about his three years on the soap as Jack Deveraux in the mid-1990s. Matt Ashford (who would return to the show later) was Jack before me. He's, like, 6'2" with black hair, and he's kind of quirky and funny. Then there was me, 5'10" with blond hair, acting like Mr. Intense. Doing that show was fun, but I wanted to try some other things and take risks on doing primetime or movies ... so I went into the shower as Jack, then another actor came out. I remember turning down the contract, then they announced that Mark Valley was fired because they wanted to go with somebody younger. I was like, 'OK! Thanks, guys!'"