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

This week on The Business, we look at the Great White Way through the lens of a new documentary called Show Business, The Road to Broadway.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

There's no business like The Business from NPR.

After the triumph in parenting, that is, Lindsay Lohan,

her mother, Dino Lohan, announced last week that she is in talks with E. Entertainment Television

to appear in a reality series called Momager.

As in moms who are also managers.

It will cover Dina's efforts at getting Lindsay's younger siblings, Allie, 14, and as in moms or also managers.

It will cover Dina's efforts at getting Lindsay's younger siblings, Allie 14, and Cody, 11, into show business and inevitably into a 12-step program.

Let's remember, this is the same woman who didn't bat an eyelash last week when Svedka Vodka agreed to sponsor Lindsay's 21st birthday,

even though her troubled daughter just left rehab. In other great programming for women,

Lifetime Television's new scripted series, Army Wives, drafted 3.5 million viewers last week,

making it the most watched series premiere in the network's 23-year history.

Lifetime's new president, Suzanne Daniels, says it's phase one of a strategy to once again own Sunday night with female audiences. Phase two will launch later this summer with Coast Guard

concubines, followed by the truly regrettable, strictly platonic, girl friends of the Merchant Marine.

In other TV news, if you refuse to believe the hype that digital TV would make your old

said obsolete, you were right. New legislation will make the rabbit ears and rooftop antennas

that are still used by 20% of Americans ostensibly useless on February 17th next year.

But the feds have also created a cheap loophole.

Cheap for you the consumer, not you the taxpayer.

A digital signal converter for your old TV will cost you $10 after a government rebate.

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