From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodeser Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at, but prepare yourself for the breaks.

Check it out.

This week on The Business, it's the best of, as we revisit our chat with a white writer on a black sitcom.

Then, we look at the way television shows make it to the season lineup

through the lens of the very funny film, The TV Set.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Stay tuned, it's the dog days of summer, so give it up for Lucky and Flo,

those DVD-sniffing canine heroes of the MPAA.

Yes, making their United States debut, the two specially trained disc-sniffing Labrador

retrievers hit New York last

week, and Aichi Wawa help send some DVD pirates to the pound, dog.

The black labs trained to sniff out polycarbonate and other chemicals in optical discs

are just back from a tour of Asia, where the Motion Picture Association lent them out to local law enforcement.

There, they sniffed out 1.9 million pirated discs on some 35 raids in Malaysia alone.

Quote, man's best friend has become a DVD counterfeiter's worst nightmare, said Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown.

The dog sniffed out illegal copies of

The Simpsons movie, knocked up, and the Boren ultimatum. But authorities said the dogs were

actually alerted by the pungent aroma of a single pirated copy of Nicole Kidman's The Invasion.

Elsewhere, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards last week demanded that two Swedish newspapers apologize to the Stones and their fans for negative reviews of the band's performance at a concert.

The newspaper Expressen said Richards appeared, quote, very drunk during an August 3rd performance in Goetheburg, Sweden.

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