Sarah Palin, who recently joined Fox News as a commentator, is now shopping a series to the television link networks.

The former link Alaska governor has been meeting with network executives this week to pitch them on a show link
link about her home state. In a sign of her seriousness, Palin has teamed with "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett.

After meetings this week with ABC, CBS and Fox, sources told The Times that the two visited the NBC suites in Burbank
link on Thursday. One person familiar with the pitch said the show sounded like a nature documentary link similar to Discovery's "Planet Earth."

-- Matea Gold link and Maria Elena Fernandez Donny, Marie show link to restart



Flamingo Las Vegas says the "Donny & Marie Show" will return to its normal performance schedule Tuesday.

The show link
link took a temporary break after the death of Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son, Michael Blosil. Police have said he jumped to his death from a downtown link Los Angeles apartment building.

Flamingo Las Vegas on Thursday also announced link there will be five extra show link
dates from April 13 through 17. The dates were originally unscheduled but were added to accommodate those link who had tickets to recently canceled shows.

-- associated press link FBI pursues 1990 art heist

The FBI is hoping link advances in DNA technology can help link solve a 20-year-old Boston art heist.

A spokeswoman for the FBI's Boston office tells the Boston Globe that the lead agent in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum case link is resubmitting evidence taken from the scene link for DNA analysis.

The heist link was one of the world's biggest art thefts. Two men disguised as police officers talked link their way into the museum in March 1990 and stole 13 works, including pieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet worth an estimated $250 million.