ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

TELEVISION

New Winfrey Program to Be Shown on Oxygen

Oprah Winfrey will star in a prime-time coda to her daytime talk show on the Oxygen cable channel, of which she’s a 25% owner.

“Oprah After the Show,” which begins Sept. 16, will be taped each day when Winfrey finishes her syndicated talk show. It will air weeknights at 7:30 p.m., with reruns at 10 p.m., 11:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. the next day.

The show could be a lucrative one for Winfrey, whose media empire, Harpo Inc., is already valued at nearly $1 billion. As part of her 1998 investment in Oxygen, she agreed to give the network exclusive rights to reruns of her talk show, which were to begin this fall--a deal, she told Fortune magazine, she has come to regret. By accepting this replacement, Oxygen is giving up those rights, says Geraldine Laybourne, Oxygen chief executive.

The network, available in about 41 million of the nation’s 105 million TV homes, hopes that viewers interested in the show will pressure cable systems to carry Oxygen.

PBS Anchor Dhaliwal Heads to CNN

Daljit Dhaliwal, who’s developed something of a cult following as the anchor of a world news program shown on many PBS stations, is jumping to CNN.

At least for the time being, though, audiences in the United States won’t be able to see her.

She will begin working for CNN International in Atlanta as anchor of the network’s “World News” and “World Report” programs. Both are seen overseas but not on the U.S. network.

MOVIES

Top Film Romances Honored by AFI

The American Film Institute’s list of top 100 U.S. screen romances, announced on a special on CBS Tuesday night, dredged up some of the big-screen classics.

“Casablanca” (1942) led the pack, followed by “Gone With the Wind” (1939), “West Side Story” (1961), “Roman Holiday” (1953) and “An Affair to Remember” (1957 ). “The Way We Were” (1973), “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), “Love Story” (1970), and “City Lights” (1931) rounded out the top 10.

The mix also contained its share of surprises: “King Kong” was No. 24, “Beauty and the Beast” No. 34 and “Lady and the Tramp” No. 95. And edging out “Pillow Talk” and “Jerry Maguire,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” took the 98th spot.

Bergman Donates to Swedish Film Archive

The Swedish Film Institute has received about 45 crates from director Ingmar Bergman, filled with behind-the-scenes footage, photographs, sketches and manuscripts.

“It is very rare that you find an artist of international significance who has documented his own life in the way that Bergman has,” Aase Kleveland, director general of the film institute, told reporters. “He has not thrown away one piece of paper during his 83-year-old life.”

The Stockholm-based archive will help researchers study the “thought processes” that went into Bergman’s work, a spokesman for the institute said. They haven’t yet decided to what extent the material will be available to the public.

POP/ROCK

Permit for Concert by Grateful Dead Is Denied

A Milwaukee county highway committee denied a permit to the promoters of a Grateful Dead reunion concert Tuesday, saying the area could not handle the enormous crowd expected.

“You can imagine the amount of humanity that’s going to converge on little old East Troy in Walworth County,” said committee Chairman Odell R. Gigante. “We only have 80-some sheriff deputies. Short of bringing in the National Guard, we just couldn’t handle it.”

The Aug. 3-4 concert would have been the first time Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir staged a concert together since the death of Jerry Garcia, the Dead’s leader and founder. Garcia died in 1995.

Promoter Clear Channel can appeal.

QUICK TAKES

Peter Gabriel has married his Irish girlfriend Meah Flynn on the island of Sardinia, the BBC reports....Johnny Depp has agreed to star in two upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer films: “The Pirates of the Caribbean,” a film based on the Disney theme park ride, and “Takedown,” playing a U.S. marshal in search of an assassin....Warner Bros. will produce a new feature film, “Looney Tunes: Back in Action,” with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and the Tasmanian Devil. Brendan Fraser will star alongside them in the mix of live action and animation, to be directed by Joe Dante....”A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” walked off with five prizes, including best sci-fi film, at the 28th annual Saturn Awards Monday night--an event honoring the best in the science-fiction, horror and fantasy in film and TV. “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” won three, including best fantasy film. “The Others” won for best horror film.... Universal Home Video will issue a two-disc DVD set of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” featuring both the 2002 theatrical version and the original, for 10 weeks only, beginning Oct. 22.... Choreographer Michael Kidd and cast members Julie Newmar, Russ Tamblyn, Ruta Lee, Tommy Rall and, schedule permitting, Howard Keel will reunite for a program preceding a screening of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” at the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Last Remaining Seats series tonight at 8 at the Orpheum, 842 S. Broadway, downtown L.A.