Effective today, Animal Planet comes to the Zune Video Marketplace. Included in the launch are four of their newest shows: Night, Escape to Chimp Eden, Jockeys and Whale Wars. Enjoy!

If you're fans of great television (or free television), today brings two shows that fall into both categories. Effective this morning you'll be able to download the season premiere of WEEDS free as well as the new USA Network's show ROYAL PAINS pilot for zero dollars whatsoever. These shows are available for this economic-stimulus price for a limited time -- so swing on over to the Video Marketplace today before it's too late.

Hey folks! We'll be taking zune.net down at 10 p.m. tonight for a bit. When we return, we'll have some new features on the web - including "follow an artist," where you can explicitly state that you like a particular artist and get news and updates from that artist. We'll do RSS feed aggregation on artist pages - which means that from the one artist page on zune.net, you can see your favorite artist's latest Twitter posts, blogs, and so on (and if your favorite artist doesn't...

Oh yeah baby, the third podcast with Matt and me is live, and it contains some tidbits of news, an interview with electronic DJ and producer DJ Dan, an interview with the hip-hop star Wale, and more of your Twitter questions answered. Listen online here , or get it from the Zune software here .