News Corp. Sets Up Employee Hotline to Report 'Illegal Activity' (Report)

News Corp. has set up a hotline for employees to report suspicious activity by their colleagues as it continues to be the focus of a bribery investigation, the U.K.'s Independent reported.our editor recommendsJames Murdoch Recalled to Parliament for More Phone-Hacking QuestionsPhone-Hacking Inquiry: Evidence 'as Clear as Mud'Confessions of a 'News of the World' Reporter (Exclusive) Rupert Murdoch 'Very Humbled' as He Apologizes Personally to the Family of Murdered Schoolgirl Milly DowlerRelated Topics•Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch's company -- which is being investigated by both U.S. and U.K. authorities over alleged payments made by its U.K. tabloids to British policemen for news tips -- circulated instructions to its employees that emphasized they are under an obligation to report suspicious activities. The dedicated line is available around the clock. PHOTOS: News of the World's Top 10 Scandals "Employees who suspect ... violations of this policy must report them to the legal department of the business unit or of News Corporation or to the News Corporation alertline," the document states. News Corp. also assured would-be whistleblowers that it would protect those who incorrectly accuse one of their colleagues. "If you make an honest complaint in good faith, even if you are mistaken as to what you are complaining about, the company will protect you from retaliation," the policy says. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Memorable Mea Culpas The company also warned employees about giving gifts to government officials or even entertaining them. "Gifts and hospitality that may be perfectly acceptable among private parties can be completely forbidden when the other party is a government official," it reads. Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter requesting information from News Corp. as part of an investigation into whether it violated America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials. STORY: Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. Target of Fresh Attacks From Shareholders and Lawmakers The company also is under investigation in the U.K. for violating its bribery laws. Meanwhile, News Corp. is in the midst of trying to settle several lawsuits in the wake of its News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the paper's employees had hacked into the voicemails of murdered teen Milly Dowler as well as some actors and other stars. VIDEO: Rupert Murdoch 'Is Going to Have to Step Down,' Says Ted Turner The news led to the paper's closure and also sparked the investigation into whether the paper's employees had paid police officers for confidential information. Late last month, the company made a $4.7 million offer to Dowler's family, which would be the largest sum ever paid out by a newspaper owner. Related Topics Rupert Murdoch News Corp.

NBC Cancels Free Agents

Free Agents NBC has canceled its newcomer comedy Free Agents, TVGuide.com has confirmed.Fall Preview: Have the lowdown relating to this season's must-see new showsThe show, which starred Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn as co-employees who develop feelings for each other after you have a drunken one-evening stand, broadcast its final episode on Wednesday, an origin mentioned. There isn't sure yet which the network will air inside the show's Wednesdays at 8:30/7:30c timeslot.The sitcom came an underwhelming 3.3 million audiences due to its latest airing. The show's cancellation follows individuals from the Playboy Club, which NBC also axed on Tuesday.

Lizzy Caplan to Party Lower on New Girl

Lizzy Caplan Jess may be heartbroken, just one of her pals has the capacity to jump in to the dating scene. Party Lower alum Lizzy Caplan will romance one of the New Girl's roommates in the multi-episode arc, TVLine reviews. Caplan, 29, look in three episodes as Julia, an appreciation interest for Nick (Mike Manley). He meets the art history graduate within an memorial and invites her to Schmidt's special birthday. However, he soon worries that his eccentric roommates will scare her away. Did we explain that marijuana, Jess' vice principal together with a feisty stripper can also be present as of this shindig? Have a look whatsoever from the familiar faces returning to TV this year Aside from her role round the cult favorite Starz comedy, Caplan may also be most broadly noted for True Blood stream and Mean Women. Are you currently presently excited to find out Caplan on New Girl?

Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Modern Motherhood at Women At NBCU Event (Exclusive Video)

Sarah Jessica Parker was the keynote speaker at the Women at NBCU's "Power of The Purse" breakfast in NY City on Tuesday. Bravo's Andy Cohen was on hand to conduct a live Q&A with the film star, as well. The event explored what it's like to be a 21st century mother and how companies can reach them.our editor recommends'New Year's Eve' Second Trailer Shows Off Star Power (Video)New Movie Reviews: 'Drive,' 'I Don't Know How She Does It' Hitting TheatersSarah Jessica Parker Reacts to CW's 'Sex and the City' Prequel PHOTOS: Hollywood's 10 Highest-Paid Actresses "My life requires travel or odd public presentation, or, you know, speculation about personal things," Parker says of her life as a mother. "But who I am as a mother, who I am as a wife, is very, very similar I think to millions... of women working in and outside the home." When it came to marketing to today's mom, Parker suggested that "People respond to truth rather than an attempt to shake them down." Parker also says she can see how her Sex and the City character, Carrie Bradshaw, was chosen most by participants in a Women at NBCU study for being the fictional character they relate to most. PHOTOS: Met Gala 2011 Fashion Top 10 "Despite the more superficial things that were fun and that were the sort of soufflé of the show," Parker says. "It was her incredibly intimate relationships with her women friends. It was that necessity in her life, the reliance that these women had on one another, and how she honored it, and how flawed she was, and how contrite she was when she disappointed them." Among other things discussed during the live Q&A, Cohen played a round of word association with Parker. Watch The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive video above. In addition, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell moderated a panel on the event's theme, "marketing to the 21st century mom." Panelists included Vinit Bharara, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Diapers.com; Linda Sawyer, CEO, N.A Deutsch Inc. A Low & Partners Company; Julie Eddleman, Marketing Director, North American Media & Shopper Marketing, Proctor & Gamble Co; Melissa Lavigne-Delville, VP of Trends and Strategic Insights, Integrated Media at NBCUniversal. PHOTOS: Vivienne Westwood Fashion Exhibit Women at NBCU is an ad sales, marketing and research initiative, which helps to create custom solutions for advertisers to connect with female consumers. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter:@TheRealJethro Related Topics Sarah Jessica Parker NBCUniversal

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24 Movie Almost Has a Script, and 5 Other Stories You'll be talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Warner Bros. wants a Leonardo DiCaprio franchise… David Cronenberg has The Fly and Eastern Promises sequels on the brain… Fox fires back at those litigious Black Swan interns… Are you ready for some football nonsensical racist celebrity spewage?… and more. · Good-ish news for Jack Bauer fans hungrily awaiting the rumored big-screen adaptation of 24 to the big screen: Kiefer Sutherland says there’s a script! Almost! Sort of? “We are coming very close to having a finished script. That’s been the most difficult thing. You have to remember that we have 24 hours to explain the stories in 24 and so trying to condense that into a two-hour film version has been a real shift in gear for us. We were originally trying to make it too big and put too much into it - but once we relaxed, we found out how to tell that story. So yes, we definitely do plan on making the film.” Believe it when you see it, but hey. FYI. [The Telegraph] · Speaking of Hollywood glaciers, let’s see how quickly — if at all — Warner Bros. can turn around Satori, the Don Winslow best-seller it has acquired as a possible franchise for Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor, whose production company is involved with development (the initial project has a script forthcoming from Winslow and Shane Salerno), would play “a Westerner, raised in Japan and taught an assassin’s skills, who gets caught up in the chaos of post-WWII as the U.S., Soviet Union, France and China maneuver for power in Southeast Asia in the early 1950s.” And apparently he’s good at… board games. Seriously. [Deadline] · How about a run through David Cronenberg’s pending IMDB profile, including ayes on those rumored The Fly and Eastern Promises follow-ups and a nay on Timecrimes? And Cosmopolis, about which Cronenberg declaimed: “Most of the movie takes place inside a limo, so some people would say that’s not cinematic, but I say it is!” Allllll I needed to hear. [Shock Till Ya Drop] · Fox is officially passing the buck to Darren Aronofsky and Co. in the Case of the Sue-Happy Black Swan Interns: “These interns were not even retained by Fox Searchlight and, in fact, were working for the production company that made Black Swan well before Fox Searchlight even acquired its rights in the film.” [Deadline] · Simon Cowell and his high-stakes talent-search gamble The X Factor are not failures, says Simon Cowell. [AP] · It took an unfortunate, utterly irrational comparison between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler to make it happen, but we finally, finally got a Monday Night Football broadcast minus the hoary old Hank Williams Jr. theme song. ESPN pulled it after the country star’s ridiculous comments on Fox and Friends, which you’ll find below. Also: OMG that Eric Foster injury. If that was a dislocated right ankle, then I have totally misunderstood the way bones work all these years. [NFL.com]

Hank Williams Jr Song Pulled From Monday Night Football After Singers Obama Remark

Tonight’s Monday Night Football game will not be preceded by Hank Williams Jr’s famous opening song. ESPN pulled the opening after Williams compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler this morning on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends.”While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football,” ESPN said in a statement. “We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.””All My Rowdy Friends” has been the MNF theme song on both ESPN and ABC for the past 20 years. Williams says his comment about Obama was misunderstood. On Fox & Friends he saidhe thinks House Speaker John Boehner playing golf with President Obama “would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu. … In the shape this country is in?” (Boehner and Obama played golf together this summer during the debate over the budget crisis.) Williams released the following statement through his publicist: “My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president.”

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Broadway 'Billy' to seal

The ultimate dance is originating for your Broadway outpost of "Billy Elliot," which has set a closing date of Jan. 8. Production taken the 2010 Tonys, retrieved its $18 million capital within 14 several days and until this year consistently drenched weekly sales of $millions of or maybe more. Still, the tuner couldn't manage the sturdiness of hit U.K. imports such as the 10-year-old "Mamma Mia!" Weekly tallies from recent frames were not spectacular, nonetheless they were definately not dire, aside from the clobberings "Billy" needed from Hurricane Irene as well as in the standard publish-Labor Day drop. Past couple of seshes saw the show pull in around $720,000 every week. Maintaining "Billy," however, is certainly an usually pricey endeavor due to the ceaseless requirement of triple-threat youthful thesps who rapidly outgrow the role in the protag, a coal miner's boy from northern England who just desires to dance. The creating model therefore features a kind of wunderkind factory that constantly scouts, trains and rehearses youthful artists. It is really an unusual cost for just about any Broadway show to cope with. Some on the market also speculate the specificity in the show's social and political backdrop (set within a period of time at work unrest in eighties England), with the plentiful cursing from everyone onstage, has saved the tuner from achieving historic success with American family and tourist auds. Still, Broadway's "Billy" has created plenty of gold gold coin within the time round the Rialto, while using tuner ringing greater than $170 million since it began perfs March. 1, 2008. "Billy," with book and lyrics by film author Lee Hall and music by Elton John, had its world preem london in 2005, where the Stephen Daldry-helmed staging remains playing. Gleam U . s . States touring production out on the road. The Broadway version is produced by Universal Pictures Stage Prods., Working Title Films and Old Vic Prods. in colaboration with Weinstein Live Entertainment. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com