USA tops cable; Hampton speaks out; disabled 'Top Model'

-- Brenda Hampton swears watching "Secret Diary of an American Teenager" won't make you pregnant: "I think that's kind of a hysterical response. Did watching 'Friends' make everybody friends? Did 'The Sopranos' make people commit murder? Did '7th Heaven' make anybody a Christian? I don't think that young women are so impressionable."

--  USA Network tops cable ratings for Q2, most nets post gains in the demo: USA up 5%, TNT up 8%, Sci Fi up 4%, Lifetime up 5%, E! up 14%, Bravo up a whoppin' 45%. But: FX down 11%. Highest-rated cable telecast? An April episode of VH1's "Rock of Love 2." 

-- BBC airs "Britian's Missing Top Model," a modeling reality series featuring disabled models. A concept that seems to be taking the highest and lowest ethical roads at the same time.
 
-- Studios once again increasing the number of TV shows at Comic-Con.

-- Casting roundup: Jason Schwartzman in HBO's "Bored to Death" … Tim Roth in Fox's "Lie to Me."

-- TV coming out of the closet: Flat panels make armoires "the dinosaurs of 2008."

-- Madonna's brother shopping a reality show about himself, because he's surely a fascinating person all on his own.