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• No monkey business: ABC using bananas as billboards
• Bee Gees celebrate 30 years of hits
• BBC World coming to U.S. markets
• Seventeen, WB making television together
• Bob Hope gives Starbucks crowd a memory

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- ABC is going bananas -- at least, in its latest ad campaign. ABC, a unit of Walt Disney Co., said on Wednesday it plans to invade the produce section of grocery stores across America and place advertising stickers on 15 million bananas.

Network officials said the latest move is part of its "We Love TV" campaign. which it started last year using the color yellow as a backdrop. The bananas in question will have small oval stickers on them with the slogan "TV. Zero Calories" on half of them and "Another Fine Use of Yellow" on the rest.

The Bee Gees

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- The Bee Gees are back. The 1970s supergroup that set the tone of the disco generation with hits like "Saturday Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Jive Talkin'" is releasing a new album titled "One Night Only." Commemorating 30 years of hits, the CD was recorded at their only U.S. concert last year. It's due in stores September 7.

"We have to make music we love," Robin Gibb said. "If you do something you love other people might latch on to it." The brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Their last album, "Still Waters," sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The British Broadcasting Corporation is expanding its presence in the United States. BBC World, the London-based 24-hour news network, has reached an agreement to show three newscasts each day on public television stations in the United States. The newscasts will begin November 1.

Among the stations that will air the BBC news broadcasts are WLIW in New York, KOCE in Los Angeles, KTEH in San Jose, WHUT in Washington, D.C., KDTN in Dallas, WPBT in Miami and WPBA in Atlanta. The BBC news agreement with public television supplements BBC America, a cable network that started earlier this year as part of an agreement with Discovery Communications. That channel shows two hours of BBC news broadcasts a day.

HOLLYWOOD (CNN) -- Seventeen magazine is teaming up with the WB Television Network to produce a series of one-hour specials featuring the type of content typically found in the teen magazine, along with profiles of and appearances by stars from the WB's youth-oriented shows. The first special is slated to air September 8.

"Seventeen: The Faces of Fall" will be hosted by WB series regulars Joshua Jackson ("Dawson's Creek") and Shannen Doherty (formerly of "Beverly Hills, 90210," now of "Charmed," which debuts in the fall) and will preview "what's hot" for the season in entertainment, fashion, sports and music.

Hope

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Perhaps there really is something to that expensive Starbucks coffee. Bob Hope showed up at a Starbucks store in suburban Sherman Oaks Tuesday morning and waited on a bar stool at the window counter while his driver got him a small drip coffee and a pastry. Customers soon began approaching Hope for autographs. Hope, 95, obliged for an estimated 20 minutes. When the entertainment legend rose to leave, four men a few tables away broke into a spontaneous rendition of Hope's theme song, "Thanks for the Memory."