US TV beckons for Trisha

Daytime TV host Trisha Goddard is set to launch a US TV career.

The presenter of ITV1's confessional show Trisha is currently in discussions with a number of US networks to find a role on American screens.

Goddard found fame in the UK after she was drafted in as a replacement for Vanessa Feltz, who hosted a similar show before being sacked by ITV.

She had made her name as a presenter on Australian TV before attracting the attention of UK TV bosses.

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Sharon Osbourne to host talk show

Sharon Osbourne, the wife of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, is to host her own talk show on US TV.

The show, to be launched in September, will see Sharon delving into human interest stories and chatting to stars.

"I could never be as good as Oprah... I won't be recommending books. That's not my thing. My experience is life," said Osbourne, who recently beat cancer.

Sharon will have a live link to her home so she can chat to Ozzy - and hopes to use her children as reporters.

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Duchovny opens Sex files

Former X-Files actor David Duchovny is to star in the popular TV series Sex And The City, his publicist confirmed.

Duchovny, whose films include Evolution and Full Frontal, will play a potential suitor to Carrie Bradshaw - as played by Sarah Jessica Parker.

He will appear in the sixth season of the show - reported to be the final series - to be broadcast in 2004.

Duchovny follows in the footsteps of Hollywood stars John Corbett and Kyle MacLachlan who also starred in the show

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Blake trial witness 'fears for life'

A witness in the murder trial of actor Robert Blake will not be allowed to give testimony before trial, even though she fears for her life, a judge has ruled.

Diane Mattson, 44, cried and shuddered in court after the judge ruled she must wait to give sworn evidence in the case, now due to start in February 2004.

Ms Mattson says that she overheard actor Marlon Brando's son Christian say that someone needed to put a bullet in the head of Blake's wife Bonny Lee Bakley.

Mr Blake is accused of shooting Ms Bakley in May 2001 as she sat in his car outside a restaurant in Los Angeles where the couple had just dined.

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Channel 4 to show second autopsy

Channel 4 is to screen another autopsy, months after a doctor caused an outcry by performing the procedure in public.

It plans to broadcast a documentary featuring the autopsy of a twin boy who had been growing inside his brother as a result of a rare condition called foetus in fetu.

The body was surgically removed after the seven-year-old boy from Kazakhstan complained that something was moving around inside him.

In November last year, Professor Gunther von Hagens, 72, performed the first public autopsy for 170 years. An edited version was broadcast later on Channel 4.

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'Roboshark' star of BBC wildlife film

Unique footage of sharks' behaviour is being screened in a Wildlife Special programme on BBC One later this month.

Documentary makers used a hi-tech remote control 6ft robot shark to move among the predators during filming for the programme.

During one incident it ignored the creatures' protocol of behaviour by getting too close to a seal carcass - and was attacked by a Great White shark.

Producers of Smart Sharks - being screened on 27 July - say the footage should help to explode the Jaws myth surrounding sharks.

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