• Stephen Colbert took his run for the presidency a step further yesterday by announcing a possible running mate.
  
• Richard Branson is trying to get Natalie Imbruglia to do the dirty work on his new environmentally-friendly show.
  
• The Next Great American Band has all the badness and none of the goodness of American Idol.
  

Some interesting news coming from writer Ian Bogost. Bogost was a guest on The Colbert Report recently, and he revealed on his blog that there was another guest on the show that got into a water fight with host Stephen Colbert, and that the segment wasn't exactly lighthearted and might not even air.

Now it can be revealed that the other guest was billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson. He was on the show to talk about his new Virgin America line of jets, one of which was going to be named after Colbert. Supposedly Branson wasn't happy that they didn't have enough time to talk about the new venture and poured a mug of water on Colbert, ruining his suit. Colbert got some water from a stagehand and dumped it on Branson. Now, no one knows for sure if this was a staged bit or serious, but Colbert had to change clothes to do another segment, and in video for Bogost's segment you can see a Poland Spring water bottle on the mantle (see pic above).

[via Boing Boing]

• Charlie Rose: Tina Brown
• The Daily Show: Robert Schrum
• The Colbert Report: Josh Wolf
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Kyra Sedgwick, Sir Richard Branson, and Maroon 5
• Jay Leno: Fred Thompson, Lauren Graham, and Toby Keith
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Bernie Mac, Bob Odenkirk, and Fiction Plane
• Tavis Smiley: Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Tim Russert, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Feist
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Parker Posey and Ian Hunter
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Bijou Phillips and Satellite Party

If you had asked me what professions Dallas star Victoria Principal would do besides acting, I probably would have said model or talk show host or restaurant owner, or maybe even cosmetics queen, which she actually is. But "astronaut" would have been way down on the list, right after lion tamer and NFL quarterback.

But into space is where Principal is going. She's going to be one of the first civilian astronauts on Virgin Galactic, which will launch in 2008. Now, I'm sure she's not going to be docking with the International Space Station. The space plane will probably go just into space enough to call it a trip into space. But I'm not knocking that at all, that's legit, and I'd love to put a little Star Trek into my life, if I had a gazillion dollars.

And then I'd wake up and go into the shower and realize it was all a dream.

Lost fans in the UK could soon have more to complain about than slow plot development. A halt in Virgin Media's deal renewal with British Sky Broadcasting might prevent Virgin Media customers from getting the Sky One channel, which airs Lost.

If the Virgin Media group and Sky cannot agree on a renewal price, Virgin subscribers will lose access to popular shows like 24, Lost, and The Simpsons, when the current deal ends on March 1. This means that viewers would be cut off from the show midseason. To make matters worse, customers would pay the same amount for less programming should the channels be cut.

On the plus side, a deal between the two companies has already been made for Virgin Media to offer the first two seasons of Lost on demand. Customers also have the option of subscribing to Sky's television service.