Showtime for Heroes, Office, CSI

The lights are back on at The Office, Heroes is coming out of mothballs, and CSI is ready to prod some corpses. TV Land is back in business.

With the writers’ strike a bitter memory, the folks at NBC and CBS are following the lead of rival ABC and announcing the return of their major series.

NBC will be out of the box quickly, with a new Saturday Night Live slated to air Feb. 23, featuring Tina Fey as guest host, while Juno’s Ellen Page will host the Mar. 1 outing. The long-running sketch-comedy series aims to produce six to eight episodes between now and May.

Bruni, in interview, reaches out to the French

PARIS: In her first interview since she married President Nicolas Sarkozy, the model-turned-singer Carla Bruni said that they fell in love immediately and predicted that only death would part them.

“I am Italian by culture and I would not like to divorce,” she said in the interview, published Wednesday in the weekly magazine L’Express. “So I am the first lady until the end of my husband’s mandate and his wife until death. I know well that life can have surprises in store, but this is my wish.”

The interview, which was published 11 days after their wedding in the Élysée Palace, seemed intended to stanch the waves of criticism that they had flaunted their love affair in public and had moved their relationship forward too quickly after Sarkozy’s divorce from his second wife in October.

A lesson from RIM

It’s a great feeling to walk around knowing that you can get your e-mails and other data whenever you want, whether it’s through a mobile device such as a BlackBerry, or through a Web service like Google’s Gmail or Google Calendar, or one of a dozen similar applications.

That’s what it’s like when you use what some call “cloud computing” services, where all your data is stored somewhere other than your desktop PC. You can get your documents anywhere, your e-mail, your music files, your photos, and just about anything else you could want.

Bitove ups ante in bid to launch HDTV Networks

John Bitove made a key concession Wednesday in his bid to create a new national television network, telling federal regulators that he will fund a small amount of local programming at each station after concerns were raised earlier this week.

Mr. Bitove, a satellite radio and fast-food franchise executive, is seeking permission to launch HDTV Networks Inc., a network of stations in eight cities that would broadcast in high-definition.

However, rival broadcasters and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission both raised concerns that the network would not be funding local programming, while other Canadian broadcasters are required to produce between nine hours and 42 hours a week, depending on the station.