Here are today’s top entertainment headlines:

• With the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series looming, word has come out that Universal Studios will be opening a Harry Potter theme park in Florida.  Set to open in 2009, the park will feature many of the locations made famous by the book series created by J.K. Rowling.  While some of the rides are being kept secret, representatives have given the names of two rides – “Ride Harry’s Wand” and “Journey to the Center of Hermione:  A 3-D Adventure Motion Ride.”

• A Kansas City Radio Station is hoping to set the world record for largest ensemble performance by having over 2,000 guitarists play the same song. The song chosen for the event is Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” The fallout from the event is expected to set musicianship back 20 years.

• Apparently, most of the world thinks plans for a Dutch reality TV show in which gravely ill contestants battle over a new kidney is in bad taste. Producers are defending the show saying it will help promote organ donating. The producers also state that this idea is better than their original idea of contestants competing to win their children back from the hands of a convicted child molester. In related news, Fox has picked up a show based on the latter concept.

That’s all for today’s news, stay tuned to this channel for all the news that matters least but you still care about.

(Compiled by J. Allen)

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