From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodesser 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 brakes. Check it out.

This week on the business, the networks have just finished their dog and pony show for the TV critics.

We take a peek inside what's known as the

TCA Press Tour. Plus, celebrity publicist Howard Bragman helps you find your 15 minutes.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

If last week saw change finally come to Washington, it also saw more of the same come to Wall Street and some mixed signals for Hollywood.

You know things are bleak when Wall Street looks to show business media moguls to help them straighten up and fly right.

Last week, the outgoing and outgoing chairman of Time Warner, Richard Parsons,

announced that he would become the new chairman of beleaguered Citigroup. City and Time Warner

have more in common than you might think. City Group lost $8 billion last quarter, and

Time Warner just took a $25 billion write-down. It's Kismet. Meanwhile, in Washington, President Obama's new

head of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, could mean headaches for the big cable and phone giants

who'd been hoping to run roughshod over your internet bill. That's because candidate Obama had

repeatedly expressed support for what's known as net neutrality.

In other words, companies shouldn't profit just because they control the digital pipeline.

Just last summer, Time Warner Cable experimented with the opposite of net neutrality in tiny Beaumont, Texas.

There, they forced subscribers into taking a bandwidth allowance and then charge them when they inevitably went over it, just like you get slammed when you go over the minutes on your cell phone plan. If you had the

misfortune of being one of these little guinea pigs in Beaumont, downloading just five

movies a month from Apple's iTunes would put you way over your allowance. Want to rent another movie

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