From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Browd-Assner, 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 brakes, check it out.

This week on the business, with a full-fledged production facility, major investments in film,

and two world-class film festivals, United

Arab Emirates, is the next country to roll the dice on Hollywood. We talk with film festival

director extraordinaire John Fitzgerald about creating the Middle East International Film Festival

in Abu Dhabi and the UAE's ambitions in the biz. But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Go nowhere.

It's the business from KCRW.

It's the Hollywood News Caravan, special Call a Doctor edition.

We begin with two new studies that find, big surprise, that watching lots of TV makes

you fat, miserable, and an easy target for advertisers.

First, a new study published in the December issue of Social Indicators Research called What

Do Happy People Do? Finds that unhappy people watch a lot more TV. How much more? Well, people who

describe themselves as not happy spend 30% more time watching telly than people who say they were

very happy, an extra 48 minutes more per day. This, of course, is great news for advertisers, because

it means miserable people see, on average,

about a dozen extra 30-second spots every day, which brings us to our next study.

Released in the Journal of Law and Economics, that tabloid rag, it found that banning fast food

TV commercials would reduce the number of obese children significantly. That is, one-fifth

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