• Again, the BBC is really, really sorry for making the Queen look like a royal bag.

• But not sorry enough to quit, apparently!

• Former television columnist Gail Shister demoted reassigned to the metro desk. Next in store for Gail: The local traffic beat.

• HBO execs in total denial over those giant piles of hate-mail from people still livid over the Sopranos finale.

• Meanwhile, HBO starting to face the reality that, without Chris "Bruiser" Albrecht at the helm, they've got zero new hit shows.

• Magazine ad sales come in "flat" by dropping 0.5% since 2006. "But if flat is the new up," writes AdAge, "a decline smaller than 1% can certainly be called the new flat." Or, in other words, no news is good news.