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All on the Line With Joe Zee 9:30 p.m., Sundance Channel

Audiences love over-the-top, in-your-face reality television. And if that reality is framed by the Las Vegas skyline, all the better. Starring government employees, small-business owners, crooks, cops and celebrities (or celebrities in waiting), here are the reality TV shows based in the entertainment capital of the world:

Oscar Goodman might well become the Elvis of judges.The former Las Vegas mayor and, before that, the brusque and stylish "mob attorney," is filming the pilot of his staged courtroom show at Las Vegas Hilton Theater on Nov. 18. The working title of the show is "Las Vegas Night Court With Oscar Goodman," and the stage ? at least for the pilot ? is where Elvis Presley performed for 837 consecutive sold-out shows from 1969-1976.

Oscar Goodman plays a gunned-down former mayor well enough. Now we'll see how the late-blooming thespian handles his role as judge and jury.

The young Johnny Jimenez was different from most children. Instead of getting a dollar when he lost a tooth, he would often find a silver certificate or a Morgan dollar under his pillow.His father, a garbage man in Bakersfield, Calif., was an avid collector of antique money, and from a young age Jimenez knew the value of an old piece.

Motorcycles, cannons, cars, even Super Bowl rings have been sold or pawned at Gold & Silver Pawn, home of the History Channel's hit reality show, "Pawn Stars." Bloody bayonets from the Civil War share space with unopened bottles of Dom Perignon from the 1920s, vintage Coke machines from the 1950s and action figures dating to the 1930s.

When last we checked in on the men of "Pawn Stars" at their Las Vegas Boulevard headquarters, it was March 2010 and the show had just erupted across cable television.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming will likely open up coastal areas in the Arctic to development but close vast regions of the northern interior to forestry and mining by mid-century as ice and frozen soil under temporary winter roads melt, researchers said.

Two Roman nails dating back 2000 years, found in the burial cave of the Jewish high priest who handed Jesus over to the Romans, may be linked to the crucifixion, an Israeli filmmaker has claimed.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It's seven in the morning and we kneel in black mud on the freezing banks of London's River Thames in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral, where a church has dominated the ancient city since the 7th century.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - U.S. cable network Showtime has decided not to pick up the controversial miniseries "The Kennedys," The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The Canadian director of "The Kennedys" says he is stunned by the History channel's decision to yank the controversial eight-part mini-series, given that he made every script change the U.S. channel and its lawyers demanded.

FIFA not considering bringing forward 2022 World Cup in Qatar due to fears over intense heat. FIFA is not considering changing the dates of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar despite fears the intense heat poses a serious health risk if the tournament is played in summer.

Teller is something of a slob.

Given that Sunday is 10/10/10 and the Las Vegas Wranglers just launched the 2010-11 season under new owner Gary Jacobs, whose family founded Qualcomm and who has achieved great wealth as the managing director of Jacobs Investment Co., we'll drop 10 Things to Know About Gary Jacobs:

Last Thursday, when Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman opened his interview with Stephen Colbert with the familiar braggadocio that Las Vegas is "the greatest city in the universe," Colbert cut him off with, "It's the greatest city in the universe, and if it isn't the greatest city in the universe, they can import part of the greatest city there and charge you to see it!"As it turns out, Colbert himself might be imported.

The virtual reality continues to spin out of Gold & Silver Pawn, home of 'Pawn Stars.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Scientists were set to launch on Wednesday what they called an effort to "virtually raise" the Titanic by using 3D techniques to map the entire wreckage site of the sunken transatlantic liner for the first time.

Historic sleepover: Preservationist sleeps in SC slave cabins to promote efforts to save them. When Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery.

Notes, from online and elsewhere, as we dribble happily to the goal of eternal happiness ... or something:¥¥¥Cirque du SoleilÕs ÒViva ElvisÓ opened in February at Aria, but one of the people closest to Elvis hasnÕt yet seen the show.