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Project Runway is going to be auf the air for a little longer than expected.

Lifetime, which will be the Emmy-nominated series' new home once the current cycle ends, said Friday that it is delaying the premiere of the show's sixth season until January 2009.

"With this move, the series will resume its traditional cycle of two seasons per year," a network rep told Entertainment Weekly. "We look forward to ringing in the new year by giving Project Runway loyal fans a superlative season six with Heidi, Tim, Nina and Michael. The new date and time will be announced soon.”

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The stars came out tonight with hopes of brightening the way for years to come.

Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Aniston, Salma Hayek, Ellen DeGeneres, Keanu Reeves, Billy Crystal, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Casey Affleck, America Ferrera, Fran Drescher, Forest Whitaker, John Krasinski, Christina Applegate, Josh Brolin and Masi Oka are just some of the A-listers who participated Friday in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, benefiting cancer research, at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

Meryl Streep, Charlize Theron, the stars of Lost, Lance Armstrong, Tina Fey and some fellow 30 Rockers, Carson Daly and Tom Green also spoke up via video.

But despite a roster of names that wouldn't have seemed out of place at the Oscars, it was sobering to see how many of the event's participants' lives have been affected by cancer, including Applegate, who, after being diagnosed with breast cancer this year, underwent a preventative double mastectomy, and Katie Couric, whose husband, Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer in 1998.

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Barack Obama spoke in a football stadium. John McCain spoke after a football game.

Ratings-wise, both moves were good. But McCain's was bigger.

Last night's McCain speech at the Republican National Convention was watched by nearly 39 million people, Nielsen Media Research said today.

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Sarah Palin just might have been bigger than Barack Obama.

More than 37 million watched the surprise vice presidential pick's speech at last night's Republican National Convention, Nielsen Media Research said.

Last week, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama delivered his stadium-sized speech to a TV audience of a Nielsen-tabulated 38.4 million.

But channel for channel, Palin was the bigger draw.

Obama's speech averaged 3.8 million viewers for each of the 10 broadcast and cable networks counted by Nielsen. Palin's speech, which was carried live by four fewer networks, averaged 6.2 million.

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NBC is bringing out the big guns for its 15th and final season of ER. The big, nostalgia-laden, tear-inducing guns.

E! News has confirmed that original ER castmember Anthony Edwards, who played Dr. Mark Greene on the medical hit for eight years before heading to that big emergency room in the sky back in 2002, has signed on to reprise his role for a one-episode guest stint during—when else?—November sweeps.

Show purists can rest easy that producers are only interested in resuscitating ratings, not Edwards' character, and that Dr. Greene will be appearing in flashback form.

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As if Hellboy and Hobbits weren't enough to keep him off the streets, Guillermo del Toro has literally scared up some more work.

The fantastical filmmaker has been tapped by Universal to helm remakes of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, per Variety, along with a big-screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood simply titled Drood, and a new take on Kurt Vonnegut's cult novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

The Oscar-nominated helmer, who is currently prepping the Hobbit films with Peter Jackson, will most likely begin with Drood, a murder mystery that Dickens never completed.

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Sarah Palin might just be what the Republicans need. To boost their TV ratings.

John McCain's surprising vice presidential pick was due to be the star attraction at tonight's Republican National Convention, which in the early going has failed to match the Democratic National Convention as a draw.

Last night's convention coverage was watched by about 21.5 million on six broadcast and cable networks, Nielsen Media Research said.

That's down a bit from the same GOP night in 2004 (22.2 million), and it's down a lot from the same Democratic night last week (26 million).

Nielsen didn't bother to tabulate Monday's ratings as the Republicans scuttled their prime-time show in deference to Hurricane Gustav.

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Sometimes a change in ZIP code can work wonders.

90210, the CW's new Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot, led the struggling network to a big Tuesday night.

The two-hour premiere averaged nearly 5 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research estimates said. The CW said it was its highest-rated scripted show in its three-year history.

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Seeing Jennifer Aniston splash around while filming a guest spot for 30 Rock might bring back memories of that infamous fountain scene during the opening credits of Friends, but that's where the similarities between Rachel Green and her upcoming character on the TV comedy end.

NBC has announced that the actress plays a "free-spirited, Fatal Attraction-like stalker" named Claire Harper, a former roommate of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon. When Claire arrives in New York from Chicago, she begins an obsession with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin).

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He may not have 10 hilarious reasons, but David Letterman really needn't offer any explanation for why he might want to keep doing the Late Show beyond the year and a half he has left on his contract.

"The way I feel now, I would like to go beyond 2010, not much beyond, but you know, enough to go beyond," the 61-year-old funnyman tells Rolling Stone in its new issue. "You always like to be able to excuse yourself on your own terms.

"If the network is happy with that, great. If they wanna make a change in 2010, you know, I'm fine with that, too."

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