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As Anchor Awaits Twins, CNN Morning Show Is Poised to Be Rebuilt

CNN’s "American Morning" may get dismantled, as co-anchor John Roberts may move to Atlanta from New York to be with his fiancee, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, who is pregnant with twins, the New York Post’s Page Six reports. CNN Executive…

‘Spin City’ Writer-Producer Returning to TV

"Spin City" writer and producer Jeff Lowell is returning to television after spending a decade in movies, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Lowell is developing a single-camera comedy at NBC, the story says. The untitled project is produced by ABC…

As NBC-Comcast Deal Nears Closing, Many Will Be Watching the Comcast-DirecTV Retrans Dispute That Has Caused G4 to Be Dropped From DirecTV as of Today, Nov. 1

DirecTV is pulling a network from its lineup after carriage negotiations failed to produce an agreement between the satellite provider and the network’s owner, according to TheWrap.com. On Saturday, Kevin Pereira, host of G4’s "Attack of the Show," revealed that…

CNN Picks NBC News Veteran to Oversee New Piers Morgan Show

CNN announced today that it will put a veteran of NBC News in charge of its new talk show, “Piers Morgan Tonight,” which premieres in January 2011. Effective immediately, the job goes to Jonathan Wald, former executive producer of NBC’s…

Get Out! Former ‘Seinfeld’ Star Looking at Return to Series TV for Political Comedy on HBO

HBO is in discussions with one of the former stars of “Seinfeld” for a possible return to series television in the political sitcom “Veep,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus would star as the U.S. vice president,…

Football Beats Baseball–And Everything Else–in Sunday Ratings

The NFL continued its Nielsen ratings dominance on Sunday with both the Fox overrun and NBC’s prime-time football game featuring the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the New Orleans Saints, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. At 7 p.m. Fox’s overrun of the Minnesota Vikings vs….

Accidental Actress Who Made Her Small Part in ‘The Sopranos’ Memorable Dies at Age 46 of Cancer

"Denise Borino-Quinn, who unexpectedly won a role as a mafia wife on ‘The Sopranos’ after she attended an open casting call, has died," the AP reports. She was 46 and had long suffered with liver cancer. Her husband died in…

Actress Who Was On ‘Ally McBeal’ Says She Developed Eating Disorder While on Show That Led To Her Weighing Only 82 Pounds

An actress will say in an interview on "Oprah" today, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, that she developed an eating disorder while on "Ally McBeal" that led to her weighing 82 pounds, reports RadarOnline.com. The actress is Portia de Rossi, who currently happens to…

Uh Oh. Daylight Savings Ends Next Weekend–Better Not Depend on Your iPhone 4 to Wake You

As daylight savings time has begun in other places around the world, such as in Australia and New Zealand and has ended in other countries, such as  the United Kingdom, a software bug in Apple’s iPhone 4’s has been revealed. In the…

News Corp. Donates Money to Defeat California Ballot Initiative, Something Fox News Fails to Disclose in Reporting

News Corp. has spent $1.3 million to defeat a California ballot initiative that would repeal $1.7 billion in corporate tax breaks, something that wasn’t disclosed in five consecutive hours of live reports on Tuesday, reports The New York Times. Fox…