Presidential candidate Fred Thompson sat down with Tim Russert yesterday on NBC's Meet The Press.

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Jerry Seinfeld and Matthew Broderick recently teamed up for an NBC-sponsored slot to publicize their over-hyped animated flick, Bee Movie, which opens today.

Though we never intended on seeing this schlock, we're definitely not going to see it after watching the aforementioned clip, which smacks of incendiary homophobia and creates a rift between gays and "families".

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Presidential candidate Mike Gravel would like to share a few words on Barack Obama's recent gay drama. Read what the gay-marriage supporting Democrat has to say for himself, after the jump.

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The Bionic Woman makes her triumphant return this fall. And, as many of you may know, British actress Michelle Ryan will be joined by none other than: Isaiah Washington.

The Washington Post's Jonathan Padget takes a closer look at the controversy surrounding Washington's return to prime time. In an effort to get all the angles, Padget calls on some familiar friends: AfterElton's Michael Jensen and our very own schmuck of an editor, Andrew Belonsky.

Sunday mornings aren't our strong suit, so we missed the "God's day" edition of NBC's Today. An early bird reader, however, caught the chat fest, including a queer technical difficulty involving rumored homo Jeff Ranieri.

…Audio went out over the air which clearly was not meant for a national audience.

During the last segment, the package audio dropped. Background noise and talking could be heard. Then a very clear, and relatively loud male voice started talking. He referred to "Jeff," presumably NBC Weather Plus meteorologist Jeff Ranieri, who's been covering the floods in the Midwest for Today. The same voice then said, "He asked me if I could give him a shine after the show," and then, after a flurry of laughter from males in the background, "I had to draw the line somewhere."

True, Ranieri's rumored to be a bit pink and, from what this reader says, apparently his journalistic colleagues are up on the gossip.

As if this sound snafu isn't convincing enough, check out who Ranieri's NBC profile lists as his "biggest inspiration:" "My mom. She has always been able to take on the biggest of challenges and overcome anything that may come her way." A grown man lauding his mama?

Yeah, definitely light in the loafers…

Homo media watchdogs GLAAD released their first ever televisual comparison today, the Network Responsibility Index.

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• Victoria Beckham's self-referential Victoria Beckham: Coming To America airs tonight on NBC. And apparently it's really, really boring. The Spice Girls' feud with Eddie Murphy, however, is not - boring, that is. Okay, it's a little boring.

• Meanwhile, NBC took pity on ABC-lashing Isaiah Washington and offered him a spot on The Bionic Woman. Of the deal, Washington remarks, I am grateful and honored by NBC's belief in me, and I am looking forward to getting back to work." Enjoy your second chance, Washington, and don't fuck it up.

• In somewhat related news, Black Entertainment Television has been getting flack for it's new show, Hot Ghetto Mess. The Viacom-owned network says stereotypical, unflattering images of black people will spur "self-reflection". We can't help but wonder if gays need one, too. Oh, wait, we forgot about William Sledd and his new web show.

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• Hey! Don't forget to come chill with us and former Alaska Senator and current Presidential candidate Mike Gravel!

• Hey. We've got some bad news. Kelly Clarkson canceled her national tour.

• Hey! Check out what you missed at last night's Good Times!

• Hey! Here's a timeline of Massachusetts' road to true equality.

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William Sledd's one lucky lavender. The proud gay man of YouTube's "Ask A Gay Man" just signed a development deal with NBC Universal, the same media giant that brought us Queer Eye for The Straight Guy.

The 23-year old Kentucky native and Gap manager remains mum on the deal's details, but did take a second to toot his own horn:

Everything is falling into place. Everyone wants a little bit of William. The next couple months are going to be big. I can't tell whether this is the beginning of the 15 minutes or the end, and I am just waiting to find out.

Us, too. We're absolutely pins and needles, in fact. Oh, wait, no we're not.

ABC's loss may be NBC's gain. Fox reports that NBC executive Ben Silverman's jonesing for some Rosie O'Donnell action:

New programming chief Ben Silverman is telling friends he will do anything to get O'Donnell onto the network, and not just in daytime. Silverman is talking to O'Donnell about hosting a prime-time game show he has up his sleeve as well as a daytime hour a la The View.

A full hour of Rosie? Haven't they tried that before?

Meanwhile, in other Rosie news, the box loving chatter box has joined forces with online gaming site Pogo to help raise money for her Rosie's For All Kids Foundation.

Participants are asked complete a set of game goals. For each successful target reached, Pogo will donate some dough - up to $15,000! So, head on over to Pogo and play a little. But hurry! The team-up terminates on Saturday.

Read Rosie's "poetic" press statement, after the jump.

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The rivalry between NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America has reached a new low. NBC staffers have been coping with GMA's recent ratings leap by giving it a new nickname: Gay-MA. How clever!

Page Six reports:

Childish staffers at the Today show have been reduced to homophobic name-calling about their rivals at Good Morning America - Diane Sawyer, Chris Cuomo, Robin Roberts and Sam Champion. A network source says, "Today staffers, from top to bottom, executives to interns, refer to GMA' as 'Gay-MA' " and snicker about the hosts. GMA has been gaining in the ratings on No. 1 Today and cut its lead in half. For their part, the GMA folks are said to refer to Today as "Yesterday."

Sounds to us like GMA's a bit more grown up. Not grown up enough to turn the other cheek, but at least their not-so-loving nickname doesn't draw on school yard taunts.

John Amaechi had a little one-on-one with the AP today and, of course, got asked about Tim Hardaway's homophobic comments yesterday. Measured as always, Amaechi said that Hardaway's words highlight our nation's all-pervasive homophobia. He also had this to say:

I don't need Tim's comments to realize there's a problem. People said that I should just shut up and go away - now they have to rethink that.

We can't help but feel that those people want you to go away now more than ever.

So, we've watched the Today Show's teaser of Meredith Vieira's Dateline interview with Madonna.

Wow. What a doozy.

Not only do we get to hear the same thing that we already heard on Oprah, but we also get the inside scoop on how little David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie sometimes wants food and other times doesn't! Amazing, right?

But, wait, it gets better: apparently Mama Madge's newest baby has actually developed emotional attachments and has been known to throw temper tantrums! (Of this bombshell, Viera inquired as to whether or not Madonna has temper tantrums. Um, Meredith, he's adopted.)

All this, a little snippet on Madonna's new children's book, and no fake British accent!

Of course, there was some actual "news", if you will: Madonna apparently offered to simply financially support David and his biological father, but the father - who has changed his story too many times to count - insisted Madonna take the baby to England. Interesting, no?

NBC's definitely done it again. Mazel Tov! (Speaking of the Mazel: Madonna said that Baby David can practice any religion he wants…ahhh, Madonna, you're the best adopted mom ever!)

It seems the hammer has come down on the proposed Jack McFarland Show.

Will & Grace comes to a close this season, and NBC execs had considered spinning off the queeny character Jack McFarland, played by Sean Hayes; but sources say Hayes is reconsidering, after witnessing the not-funny-at-all horror that befell "Joey Tribiani" in the awful Joey. Hayes is a talented actor–Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, the movie that introduced Hayes to gay audiences in America, is one of the great gay independent films of our time. He needs to learn from Madonna (and certain ex-reality TV "stars" who now work for Queerty), and do something new.

We also presume the decision is lukewarm with NBC execs, as ratings for all their shows are sinking into the toilet and they are realizing they need to wipe the slate clean. The cast of Will & Grace is also rumored to be considering a movie based on the show, but everyone leaving a cancelled program says that to sound cool. We hope they don't do it, as a Will & Grace movie would be ghastly.

Time to let Will & Grace go the way of the dodo bird [Yahoo UK}

Controversy follows The Book Of Daniel as often as Jesus Christ tags along with Aiden Quinn's character on the show. This time uppity citizens are threatening the Little Rock WB affiliate that picked up the show after the area's own NBC station exorcised it from its holy schedule.

Threats to the station began pouring in shortly after it made the announcement. They continued after the show aired a spokesperson for the station told 365Gay.com
Station spokesperson Gary Robbins defends the decision to run the series and says despite the threats there are no plans to cancel it

These intimidating bullies may have done more work than needed. The ratings gods haven't been on Daniel's side and it appears as if the show might die a quick death all on its own.

TV Station Threatened Over Series With Gay Character [365 Gay]
No solace for NBC as 'Daniel' disappoints [Reuters]