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‘One Tree’ Lands Nick Lachey

Nick Lachey will appear on CW’s “One Tree Hill” on at least one episode later this season, E! Online reports. He’ll play himself: a singer, former reality star and former boy band leader who dates Vanessa Minnillo, the site says….

‘Gossip Girl’ Adds Two

The CW’s “Gossip Girl” has cast Aaron Tveit and Holley Fain as Nate’s wealthy cousin Tripp Vanderbilt and his fiancée, Maureen, TVGuide.com reports. Tveit has appeared in the Broadway productions of “Wicked” and “Hairspray,” while Fain has appeared in episodes…

Falco Bemoans Typecasting

Edie Falco, who played Carmela Soprano on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” said she kept getting offers to play Italian wives after the show ended two years ago, the New York Post reports. “People tend not to be particularly creative when it…

Time Warner Posts $16 Billion Q4 Loss

Time Warner on Wednesday reported a $16 billion loss in the fourth quarter and a $13 million loss for all of 2008. The bulk of the loss was the result of a $24 billion charge against asset impairments. For TVWeek’s…

SAG Talks Halted by Internecine Lawsuit

The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers postponed the renewal of their contract discussions after SAG President Alan Rosenberg notified the actors’ union Monday that he intends to file a lawsuit seeking to reinstate…

DTV Delay Vote Set for Wednesday

The House of Representatives likely will vote on delaying the switch to digital television on Wednesday this week, TelevisionWeek reports. House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., sent a…

TV Stations May Jump to DTV Early

Some 400 to 500 television stations could switch to digital signals early, even if the transition date is officially delayed until June from the current Feb. 17 deadline, Dow Jones reports. A date-delay bill in Congress would allow stations to…

Comcast Offers $10 for Porn Glitch

Comcast is offering a $10 credit to Arizona customers whose viewing of Sunday’s Super Bowl was interrupted by a 30-second porn clip, Multichannel News reports. The clip came from the hard-core pay-per-view adult channel Shorteez, owned by Playboy Enterprises, and…

Late Super Bowl Ads Score

Advertisers may start rethinking the conventional wisdom that it’s better to advertise earlier in the Super Bowl, after Sunday’s close game kept viewers glued to the screen and helped recall of commercials that ran in the fourth quarter, the New…

Did Lauer, ‘SNL’ Blur Super Bowl Lines?

It was difficult to tell if one advertisement that ran on the Super Bowl was a spot for Pepsi or for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” the Associated Press reports. The commercial, based on series of skits featuring “SNL” character MacGruber,…