I spoke with the talent agency involved and she told me that this is going to be a documentary about stay at home dads with a bit of a reality TV angle, but tastefully done. I promised I’d pass on the info: Are you a Stay at Home Dad or know one? Looking for STAY AT HOME DADS in Big Cites (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, New York City, Chicago) Working or Not Working. Single or Married. Looking for Dads or couples with non-traditional arrangements who have kids. All ethnicity’s and ages. Please email your name, number, and what city you live in. Also, please attach a photo of yourself and one your family. Please send to: casting@valentinetv.net

Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do. “We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy people engage in, and for each one, the people who did the activities more — visiting others, going to church, all those things — were more happy,” Dr. Robinson said. “TV was the one activity that showed a negative relationship. Unhappy people did it more, and happy people did it less.” [From What Happy People Don’t Do - NYTimes.com] While the study can’t definitively say it’s TV that makes people unhappy (versus “unhappy...

You can argue about the protectionism of the State, and whether this is too much control, but there is wisdom behind the recent decision by the French broadcasting authority to ban French television from airing TV shows made for kids under three years old. As with many laws that are put in place to protect those who can’t protect themselves, I think the French have it right here. One thing babies definitely do not need is more TV. The advent of BabyTV in 2006 in the US spurred a national debate and the American Academy of Pediatrics made a pronouncement that babies should be kept from television completely. Now that BabyTV and BabyFirstTV are available in France from foreign distributors,...