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YouTube’s webcast of a U2 concert Sunday in Pasadena, Calif., was watched by nearly 10 million people worldwide, the video site’s largest streaming event ever.
The full 2 1/2 -hour show is available on YouTube. The rebroadcast video has been watched by nearly 1.1 million viewers.
New Jersey police are trying to determine who fired a bullet that hit CNN commentator Lou Dobbs’ home as his wife stood nearby.
Sgt. Stephen Jones says Dobbs’ wife and driver were outside the home Oct. 5 when they heard the gunshot. Jones says the bullet didn’t penetrate the siding.
Dobbs mentioned the bullet this week on CNN and his radio show, adding he’d been receiving threatening phone calls for weeks.
It is small-game hunting season, but no hunters were seen in the area.
“(500) Days of Summer” star Zooey Deschanel will join her big sister Emily on the Fox series “Bones.” The episode, airing Dec. 10, will mark the first time Emily and Zooey have appeared together onscreen.
In the episode, Zooey will play Margaret Whitesell, a distant relative of her sister’s character, Temperence Brennan. Brennan’s dad (Ryan O’Neal) comes into contact with Margaret and asks her to spend Christmas with him and Brennan.
Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished south African country where she runs a charity organization and from which she has adopted two children.
Speaking in Mphandula, the singer said: “I know you work in darkness. I will bring you electricity.”
Madonna’s Raising Malawi charity has donated $500,000 for a child care center in the village that feeds and educates 3,000 orphaned children.
Comedy Central regular Nick Swardson has received his own sketch comedy series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The weekly, half-hour sketch show will premiere next year and includes digital shorts, man-on-the-street segments and animation inspired by Swardson’s online character, “Gay Robot.”
“I’m very excited to be working with Comedy Central,” Swardson said. “They are great people who understand me creatively. They also are very good looking.”
NBC has decided not to order any more episodes of its freshman medical drama “Trauma,” said to be the network’s priciest new fall series, although it will finish producing the rest of its original 13-episode order.
The shows will continue to air on Mondays.
This week’s episode of “Trauma” was seen by 5.8 million viewers but attracted only 4 percent of the available viewers in the important demographic of 18- to 49-year-olds, a big drop from lead-in “Heroes.”
Mark Wahlberg is expecting his fourth child with wife Rhea Durham.
“I’m having another girl,” Wahlberg, 38, told People magazine. “So I’ll have two girls and two boys.
“I’m the youngest of nine, and my dad has a few others. No, four is enough,” he said. “We were all raised with a lot of love. But we didn’t get the kind of attention I think that we all needed. … My mission in life is to raise my kids right. With all the success I’ve had in the world, if I fail at that, my life means nothing.”
Stephen “tWitch” Boss, runner-up on Season 4 of “So You Think You Can Dance,” has been cast in the dance flick “Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming.”
tWitch will play Taz, the antagonist, in the film, out next year.
He’ll also appear in “Step Up 3D,” due in theaters in August 2010.
The Journal Gazette is seeking wishes from area charities for those in need over the holidays. The list will be published Nov. 27 and 28. Needs for animal-related charities will run separately. Any non-profit group or organization from northeast Indiana or northwest Ohio that wants inclusion should e-mail jmccartney@jg.net or fax 260-461-8893. Mark wishes with “Journal Gazette Giving” and include the group’s name, mission, address, phone number and needs, including drop-off times and locations. You can also mail information to Journal Gazette Giving, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802. Deadline is noon Nov. 11.
Among celebrity birthdays today: Singer Otis Williams of the Temptations is 68. Actor Henry Winkler is 64. Singer Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 42.
