Reuters - When U.S. cable operators and networks gather at their biggest annual industry event this week, both sides will seek to preserve and enhance a long-term partnership now under threat as more and more consumers choose to watch their favorite shows online.

Reuters - DreamWorks Animation SKG’s strong $59.3 million opening weekend for 3-D movie “Monsters vs. Aliens” signals that Hollywood’s greater reliance on the third dimension is popular with audiences.

AP - NBC is keeping the lights on for “Friday Night Lights.”

AP - Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who captured the majesty of the desert in his music for “Lawrence of Arabia” and wrote the haunting “Lara’s Theme” in his score for “Doctor Zhivago,” has died. He was 84.

AP - Fox News has started a Huffington Post-style Web site in an attempt to increase the network’s online reach.

Playbill - Starting March 29, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier will be flooded with 7,000 gallons of water to create the coast of the imaginary world of Illyria, where Twelfth Night’s characters are washed ashore at the top of the Shakespeare comedy.

Playbill - The 2009-10 City Center Encores! series of American musicals will give wing to shows with scores by the Gershwin brothers, Harold Rome and Stephen Sondheim. The season begins Nov. 19 with Girl Crazy, the hit-packed Depression-era musical by George and Ira Gershwin.

E! Online - Believe it or not, the televised shenanigans in the O.C. are only the half of it.

E! Online - In her new flick, Miley Cyrus returns to an ochre-toned, sun-drenched Tennessee countryside, where her Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana character paints a henhouse and learns to appreciate the slow life. 

AP - In a March 28 list of Kids’ Choice Awards winners, The Associated Press reported erroneously the first name of the recipient of Favorite TV Actor. It was Dylan Sprouse, not Cole Sprouse.