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Despite the mortgage meltdown, there still could be money in house flipping -- or at least in a dispute over a show about house flipping. A jury trial in Charleston, S.C., begins today to determine whether cable programmer A&E Television Networks must pay a South Carolina real estate broker as much as $30 million for creating the popular get-rich-through-real-estate show "Flip This House.

Mobster Tony Soprano is headed to basic cable, minus a @#$%! or two. After a protracted bidding war, Time Warner Inc.'s HBO network agreed to sell 78 episodes of "The Sopranos" to basic cable's A&E Network, A&E said Monday.

Thirty years ago when the zany comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus hit British airwaves, few knew what to make of it. But its blend of intellectuality and scatology eventually permeated British culture.

As with several other reality shows (think "Trading Spaces" or "What Not to Wear"), "Airline" is a copycat of a British reality program of the same name, which has shadowed the no-frills carrier EasyJet for eight seasons.

It looks like Ice Cube will be keeping it real on A&E. The rap icon and star of such films as "Barbershop," "Three Kings" and "Are We There Yet?" has signed a deal with the cable and satellite television network to produce "Good in the Hood," an hourlong pilot for an unscripted drama series about gang members and urban criminals who have changed their ways and are looking to help other people do the same.

In an upcoming scene from the edited version of "The Sopranos," the one that begins airing tonight on A&E, mob guys Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) and Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) are chasing a wiseguy through the woods before killing him, in cold blood, pumping his chest full of bullets, repeatedly, brutally.