From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Bratessor 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, we use the funny new feature film, The TV Set, to show how TV pilots fight their way to the little screen.

Plus, we talked to the agent-turned-author of Hollywood Girls Club,

the deliciously salacious and sometimes true novel about women and power in Hollywood.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Yoga Booty Ballet can wait.

It's the business from NPR.

We will not start the caravan with any news about Don Imus, but we will offer a prediction.

The recently fired radio and TV

Kermudgeon will sign a multi-million dollar deal with satellite radio before the year is done.

We're not saying it's right, we're just saying it's going to happen. Elsewhere, the Beatles may

finally be going online. Tracks from the Fab Four should soon be available via download services such as iTunes

now that a long-running royalty dispute has been settled. Apple Corps, the company owned by

Paul, Ringo, and the heirs of John and George, had sued record company EMI over millions in

disputed royalties in 2005. Last week, they settled. Apple Corps will now be free to negotiate a new

royalties deal with the MI that extends to online music downloads, paving the way for the FAB4

to once again rule the charts. This time, via the web. In other music news, three of Michael Jackson's

older siblings, Tito, Germain, and LaToya, last week made a deal with CBS to host an American Idol-style rip-off called Pop Dynasty.

The show purports to find the next big family singing act.

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