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It was an iconic song of the 1980s and one of the first mainstream songs to tackle the subject of Aboriginal Rights in Australia but Goanna's classic Solid Rock has been reworked for 2009.

With the holiday shopping season in full force, you are undoubtedly looking for some big, awe-inspiring items.

A&E Home Video, $149.95 Before HBO's Baltimore-based The Wire came along and blew everyone's minds , the television-consuming public was pretty much dependent on one show to foster its intimacy with Body-More Murdaland.

A Satire on What Would Happen If Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck & Friends Met Big Bird, Elmo & Oscar the Grouch A script treatment for a future sweeps episode of "Sesame Street" was leaked this week and caused consternation in the realms of left & right politics.

JIMMY McGovern's critically acclaimed drama series The Street has won a clutch of high profile television awards.

Gray O'Brien has admitted that his Coronation Street heart attack storyline brought back sad memories.

Have I totally lost the plot, or is Kelly Bensimon walking down the street wearing her bath mat? I'm serious.

Coronation Street busybody Sally Webster is seething when she sees that her daughter's kidnapper John Stape has returned to the cobbles after being released from prison.

"Dancing with the Stars" pro dancers Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani were dancing down Main St.

A weird mixture of the standard Ken Loach film with standard Hollywood fare . Where Woody Allen had a Bogart simulacrum do this in Play It Again, Sam, postman Steve Evets has his football hero, Eric Cantona.

Jimmy McGovern has announced that he is working on a new drama series for the BBC.

As TDA celebrates 20 years , a staple of childhood is celebrating double that. Sesame Street first aired in 1969 as a pilot with a less muppety format.

Did you log on to Google today? My soon-to be-eight-year-old daughter did and said, "Mom, look, it's Big Bird's legs!" The reason for the high tech shout-out I knew is because this month , Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar and friends are turning 40.

Great news for fans of The Street - Jimmy McGovern is working on a six-part drama for BBC1 which will follow a different character each week.

Honolulu's wet and dark today, with passing downpours sending small rivers of water into the storm drains downtown.

Have you been asked questions on campus involving current affairs? Questions on topics ranging from health care, Afghanistan, Iran, and other social issues like abortion or gay marriage? Matt Hoffman in the Communications Department has a show called "On the Street" from 3 to 4 p.m. every Thursday on UTARadio.com . He goes around campus to find the ...

Film/TV producer Barry Levinson says Saturday nights need more original shows, not fewer.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Paramount, $29.98/$34.98; Blu-ray, $39.99 It's useless at this point to gripe about Michael Bay 's "Transformers" sequel being even more nonsensical and clamorous than its predecessor.

SO IS IT wrong that we're totally underwhelmed by the repackaged box set for " Homicide: Life on the Street "? David Simon fans, don't get offended - that's not any kind of slight on the man now best known for " The Wire " and whose nonfiction 1991 book, " Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets ," inspired "Homicide," one of the best cop shows of ...

Another thing they both had in common was David Simon, the reporter who wrote the book on which Homicide was based.