Help make the band

• Who do you want? We'll find out this weekend when Diddy and the 10 finalists of MTV's Making The Band 4 stage a live event in Times Square, after which the winners will be announced.

• When and where: 8 p.m. Sunday, MTV

• How to vote: Some 400,000 have cast a ballot so far; you can as well by going online to: makingtheband.mtv.com

Watch for this

• What: God's Christian Warriors, part three of Christiane Amanpour's report on religious fundamentalism, focuses on the United States and its electoral politics.

• When and where: 7 p.m. today, CNN

Glued to their seats

66% of children between the ages of 6 to 14 watching TV last Friday night were tuned in to the debut of High School Musical 2, accord- ing to officials at the Disney Channel. Think that number's high?

80% of girls, ages 6 to 11, watching TV were grooving to Musical, Disney says

Get your VMA on

Producers of the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards have just announced some additions to the lineup: Common, Nelly Furtado, Gym Class Heroes, T-Pain, Cee-Lo, Daniel Merri- weather and Lil' Wayne. They join previously announced stars Timbaland, Kanye West and Fall Out Boy, among many others. See it Sept. 9.

Such a kidder

"They've loosened up a little bit because so many people have died."

Daryl Dragon, the "Captain" of Captain & Tennille, joking about how rights clearances have become easier to secure for the re-release of the musical duo's vintage TV specials on DVD. The package comes out on Sept. 4.