Daytime soap "Guiding Light," the longest running show in radio and TV broadcast history, will complete its final season on Sept. 18. The CBS daytime drama was not renewed for the 2009-10 broadcast season, marking the end of its 57-year TV run.

"Guiding Light" debuted as a 15-minute radio show in 1937 and made the move to television in 1952. The show began broadcasting in color in the spring of 1967, expanded to 30 minutes the following year and to a full hour in 1977.

"Being on the air for more than seven decades is truly remarkable, and it will be difficult for all of us at the show to say goodbye," executive producer Ellen Wheeler said in a statement.

"Guiding Light" has covered social issues such as discrimination against women in the 1940s and teen alcoholism and drug abuse in the 1980s. The fictional town of Springfield has recently been home to six-time Emmy winner Justin Deas and four-time Emmy winner Kim Zimmer. Other actors who have spent time there include Kevin Bacon, Calista Flockhart, Allison Janney, James Earl Jones, Taye Diggs, Hayden Panettiere and Brittany Snow. (Local and wire reports)

After months in limbo, "Project Runway" has a new home at Lifetime.

The design-competition series that originally aired on the Bravo network had been mired in a legal struggle involving NBC Universal, which owns Bravo, the Weinstein Co. and the Lifetime channel.

The dispute began last April after NBC Universal sued Weinstein after the production company made a reported $150 million deal with Lifetime for the series. In a statement yesterday, NBC Universal said Weinstein will pay the media company "for the right to move 'Project Runway' to Lifetime. All parties are pleased with the outcome.'"

The civil lawsuit filed by Pittsburgh's PEI Production Group against, among others, Hudson Canyon Entertainment Group president Thomas E. van Dell -- who came to Pittsburgh as actor-musician Drake Bell's manager in 2006 to announce Bell would star in a Pittsburgh-filmed, PEI-produced TV series that never came to fruition -- has moved forward.

Last week a judge ruled in favor of PEI, awarding the company $101,273.43 from Hudson Canyon, van Dell and Rob Kahane Management, none of whom appeared at the non-jury damages trial.

PEI attorney Amanda Rubio of Burns, White & Hickton said the next step is to file a precipe for judgment on the verdict. After that, either a collections attorney or agency can try to pursue collection of the verdict amount in California.

Bell, who was not named in the lawsuit, is no longer represented by van Dell. (Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV editor)