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Who Will Be Joining ‘Saturday Night Live’? Who Else Won’t Return?

With possibly four new cast members joining "Saturday Night Live," the question arises as to who might be following Will Forte in leaving "SNL," reports Deadline.com. The latest "SNL" cast member who may not be returning to "Saturday Night Live" is Jenny…

Feeling Recession, Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Raises Less Than Last Year

The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon may have felt the effects of the recession with this weekend’s annual fund-raising event, as the program raised about $1.5 million less than last year, reports the Las Vegas Sun. The program raised $58.9 million,…

Coming Soon: Company to Produce a Physical Keyboard For the iPhone

We iPhone users hear this complaint at least once a day from our blackberry-using colleagues: "I’d switch, you know, if the iPhone had a physical keyboard instead of a virtual one." It looks like that will happen before the end…

ABC News President David Westin To Leave by Year’s End

ABC News President David Westin, who has held the job since 1997, said he’ll be leaving the network at the end of the year, marking an end to a tenure that’s overseen dramatic changes in broadcast news, reports the Los…

Like Most Photos You Take–that now get ‘looked at less than once simply because there is almost zero cost and effort to producing one’–There Are Too Many Good TV Shows To Watch Them All, Says N.Y. Times Columnist

Have we come to the point that there is just too much good TV available that we can’t watch it all? Media columnist David Carr of the New York Times thinks we may have. In this week’s column, published Monday, he writes,…

Danielle Staub of ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Will Be Leaving Program

Bravo said that Danielle Staub of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" won’t be coming back to the program, reports the Associated Press. Staub appeared on Monday’s reunion program, in which she seemed to make amends following a second season…

An Offer Paramount Couldn’t Refuse: Basic Cable Network Licenses ‘The Godfather’ Movies For Unprecedented Nine Years

A basic cable network has made Paramount Pictures an offer it couldn’t refuse, reports the New York Post. The studio has agreed to a deal with cable channel AMC that gives it rights to be the only place to watch…

Video: Washington Post Sportswriter Deliberately Twitters a False Story

Washington Post sportswriter Mike Wise was suspended for deliberately twittering a false story last week, according to Cnet. According to the article, Wise "was suspended last week for taking his company’s reputation too lightly when he intentionally used Twitter to…

Report: Network Morning Show Heavily Courting Lindsay Lohan for Her First Post-Jail Interview

On morning network show in particular is heavily courting Lindsay Lohan to score the first post-jail interview with the troubled star, reports TMZ.com. The program is NBC’s "Today" show, the report says. Lohan is strong leaning toward doing the "Today" show, according…

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, Negotiating with Oprah Winfrey To Put a Series on OWN

Sarah Ferguson is negotiating with Oprah Winfrey to create a six-part series for Winfrey’s new cable network about reports the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper. The series would be about how the Duchess of York was abandoned as a teenager by her…