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You can get a really good idea of ABC's fall schedule right here, where Yahoo! has posted clips from 12 of ABC's new shows for the fall. Clips include Brothers & Sisters (Calista Flockhart), Day Break (Taye Diggs), Men in Trees (Anne Heche), The Nine (Scott Wolf), Six Degrees (created by J.J. Abrams), Traveler, Betty the Ugly, Big Day, Help Me Help You (Ted Danson), In Case of Emergency, Let's Rob..., and Notes from the Underbelly.

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According to Broadcasting & Cable, USA Network will announce its big plans for an online video presence called CharacterClique (Hello? Could you choose something easier to spell, please?). The magazine reports that USA will partner with Yahoo! to stream one series online. It will also start offering new episodes on Video on Demand before they even premiere on television.

So what's getting the most buzz from the Digital Hollywood conference? It's not Apple or Google, and for some reason it's not even TV Squad. It's what the rest of us are talking about too, YouTube.

The site still doesn't charge a fee to watch videos and it still doesn't accept advertising, but everyone is vying for a piece of the action and is wondering what they can do with it. The site was undoubtedly helped (helped is putting it mildy, actually) by the uploading of the "Lazy Sunday" video from Saturday Night Live.

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It seems the old TV dinosaurs are learning slowly but surely that there's an audience out their hungry for online content. Staring next fall, CBS will be bringing video and interactive content from 60 Minutes to a special microsite on Yahoo. Two "news packages" will be added to the site each week following the television program. One will expand on a news story covered on the television broadcast, while a second story will focus on a "topical news theme." Segments of 60 Minutes can currently be viewed on CBS' Web site, but the hope is that the partnership with Yahoo will be more appealing to younger viewers seeking something more interactive.

Last week, I put in my two cents on what I thought was the biggest story of 2005; the convergence of TV and the internet. As I said in the article, 2005 may have been the launching point, but it's only going to get bigger and better from here on out. So here we are, one week later and three days into the new year, and we already have our first great example. Terry Semel, a former Warner Bros head, is now in charge of Yahoo's new media department and is banking on their new video on demand service. So much so, that they've in fact just recorded a pilot for a new show called Wow House that will air exclusively there. In the show, two families will compete by decking their homes out with new "tech" (hi-def, surround sound, home automation). The two houses will then be voted on and the winners will get to keep all the swag. Geez, what a tease if you lose... Let me know what you think.

I'm almost wondering why some people would bother having a television at this point. Two CBS sitcoms have joined the ever-growing list of television shows available either for download or viewing online: Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother. Dubbed as CBS's "Comedy Bowl", starting today and ending January 2nd, you're able to view these shows via Yahoo! as streaming media, for free and without commercials. Previous episodes of each show will be available for viewing next Monday, though it's not yet clear how far back they will go (since Two and a Half Men has prior season episodes as well).

In an attempt by Yahoo to offer brand name content and by the networks to promote their content both ABC and CNN will begin offering clips of their news shows on the search engine giant. The clips will become available in September and be advertising-supported. It doesn't sound like the video will be searchable but will probably be well categorized. In CNN's case it will be the same video available on its own website but licensing it to Yahoo gets it a great amount of new exposure.