* People who watch shows like Mad Men or The Walking Dead are far more likely to do so by recording it on a digital video recorder and watching it later, skipping over the ads as they do so, than viewers of other shows, according to research by digital video recorder maker TiVo. Viewers of Madison Avenue drama Mad Men, for instance, skip 73% of the ads. Similarly, 66% of ads during The Walking Dead are skipped.* Coronation Street's Ken Barlow (William Roache) returns from Canada this week and is shocked to find out that his son Peter is in prison on remand for Tina McIntyre's murder. Said Roache: "Ken is really happy to be back, he has had a great time in Canada, he's used the time to do things he loves doing, he has started writing poetry and become a vegetarian, things which he immediately gets stick about on his return from Deirdre and Tracy. But he wouldn't want it any other way."
* Thursday, August 21 marks the return of Sabrina to General Hospital following portrayer Teresa Castillo's maternity leave (she gave birth to her first child, daughter Victoria Milani, on May 29). "I'm excited to see what Ron [Carlivati, head writer] has planned for the next chapter in Sabrina's journey,” she says. "It will be nice to regain my identity as an actor."
* The Hawaiian film and TV industry saw an 84.9 percent increase in the number of jobs it created from 2001-2011, much greater than the 13.8 percent increase for Hawaii's creative sector as a whole, which also includes marketing, music, radio broadcasting, etc. Much of its success is due to the hit TV show LOST.
* Monica Lewinsky on Orange is the New Black: "I was Orange-bingeing, when along came Episode 11. (O.K., I’m a late adopter. Just getting through Season 1.) In it, there was a vulgar reference to my last name and DNA. I did what I usually do in these situations where the culture throws me a shard of my former self. After the cringing embarrassment, the whiff of shame, and the sense that I am no longer an agent running my own life, I shuddered, I got up off the sofa, and I turned it off."
* Former EastEnders star John Partridge covers Dolly Parton ("Jolene), Nine Inch Nails ("The Hand That Feeds") on his debut album. "Dames, Dudes + Cowboys Too" will be released on September 15 via Big Hand Recordings.
* Was Phil Mitchell vs Ian Beale in EastEnders the best UK soap opera fight ever?
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