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TV Tonight (1/16)

ABC: Wife Swap (NEW), Supernanny (NEW), Cashmere Mafia (NEW)

CBS: Power of 10 (NEW), Comanche Moon (NEW)

NBC: Deal or No Deal (NEW), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order (NEW)

FOX: American Idol (NEW)

CW: Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants (NEW), Gossip Girl

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TV Crap

DIANE KEATON needs to censor herself when she makes TV appearances to promote her new movie, Mad Money. Yesterday on ABC's Good Morning America, she inadvertently used the 'f' word while complimenting DIANE SAWYER's lips. Specifically, she said if she had lips like Sawyer's, she wouldn't have worked on her "f****** personality" and would be married. She apologized for her use of the swear word, which aired uncensored on the East Coast, and Sawyer replied that her mom would wash Keaton's mouth with soap. The word was bleeped in the other U.S. time zones...

MAILA NURMI, who hosted horror movie broadcasts on Los Angeles TV in the mid-1950s as the goth character Vampira, died last Thursday. The cause of death is currently unknown. She may have been one of the inspirations for the character of Morticia Addams on TV's The Addams Family, and at one time unsuccessfully sued CASSANDRA PETERSON, aka ELVIRA, for allegedly stealing her act. Nurmi was 85 years old...

Nielsen Ratings

America has football fever and the networks couldn't be happier. The top three programs in last week's Nielsen ratings were all gridiron-related, with the post-game show for the New York Giants' win over the Dallas Cowboys pacing the field with 32.5 million viewers. For the first time in recent memory, the New England Patriots didn't win something -- their victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars took second place, earning just shy of 30 million viewers. Meanwhile, the college football national championship between Ohio State and LSU landed in third place.

Elsewhere in last week's Nielsens:

* We don't know if it's a really good show of if the public is just starved for new programming, but Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted in fourth place with more than 18 million viewers. On the other hand..,

* The premiere of ABC's Cashmere Mafia proved the public may not be all that hungry for new shows. It only scored 6.2 million viewers.

CBS was the top-rated network for the week, followed by Fox, NBC, ABC, Univision, the CW, My Network TV and Telemundo.

Here are the top 10 primetime programs for the week of Monday, January 7th-Sunday, January 13th:

1. Fox NFC Playoff: New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys Post-Game (Sunday), Fox, 32.51 million viewers.

2. AFC Divisional Playoff: Jacksonville Jaguars at New England Patriots, CBS, 30.90 million viewers.

3. Allstate BCS National Championship, Fox, 23.07 million viewers.

4. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox, 18.36 million viewers.

5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 18.19 million viewers.

6. Grey's Anatomy (Thursday), ABC, 17.68 million viewers.

7. Comanche Moon 1, CBS, 15.76 million viewers.

8. Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit, 15.15 million viewers.

9. Criminal Minds, CBS, 14.30 million viewers.

10. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Sunday), ABC, 14 million viewers.

Hey, you are starting to SAG...

Prospects for a Grammy Awards broadcast this year are looking worse because of the ongoing writers' strike. Yesterday, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that they'd filed a formal request for a waiver with the Writers Guild, and the union again said yesterday that the request is unlikely to be granted. Still, ARAS President NEIL PORTNOW said the academy, quote, "remains hopeful that there will be a quick and positive response."

The Screen Actors Guild has said it probably won't cross the picket line should writers protest the Grammys. Several musicians are SAG members, meaning they'd likely honor the picket, while other musicians are likely to avoid crossing the picket out of sympathy for the writers' cause.

As of now, The Grammy Awards are still scheduled to take place February 10th, and air on CBS-TV. However, no performers or presenters have been announced yet.

Better news for next month's NAACP Image Awards: the Guild has granted them a waiver. WGA West President PATRIC VERRONE explained yesterday, quote, "Because of the historic role the NAACP has played in struggles like ours, we think this decision is appropriate to jointly achieve out goals."

The Big "O"...

OPRAH WINFREY's vast entertainment empire will expand next year with the creation of her own TV network. She will chair the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN, which will become available in nearly 70 million homes on cable and satellite TV. The joint venture between Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications will replace the Discovery Health network. Under the agreement, the talk show queen will relinquish half-ownership of her Oprah.com website.

Programs on the Oprah Winfrey Network may focus on issues such as money, health and relationships -- not unlike The Oprah Winfrey Show. But you might not see much of Winfrey on the network when it debuts, since she'll keep busy with her talk show under a contract that runs through May, 2011.

Still, Winfrey says, quote, "I will now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on a platform that goes on forever." Oprah's already the face of several media projects, including a magazine, TV movies and her website.

TV Tonight (1/14)

ABC: Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (NEW), Notes From the Underbelly (NEW), October Road (NEW)

CBS: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami (NEW)

NBC: American Gladiators (NEW), Deal or No Deal (NEW), Medium (NEW)

FOX: Prison Break (NEW), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (NEW)

CW: Everybody Hates Chris, Aliens in America, Girlfriends, The Game

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TV Potpourri

According to the Hollywood Reporter, CBS has ordered a trio of reality shows. The first, Game Show in My Head, features people whose ordinary lives are thrown out of whack when they're ordered to complete outrageous stunts. The second show is called Secret Talents of the Stars and features celebrities trying to outdo each other in a variety of contests, with one person being eliminated each week. The final series is America's Top Dog, in which dogs and their owners live together while trying to win a cash prize. What they have to do to win is unclear...

Steroids may be tainting the sports world, but NBC is making sure it doesn't do the same to TV. According to Broadcasting & Cable magazine, the peacock network has been testing the dozen cast members of American Gladiators to make sure they don't use any performance-enhancing drugs. The gladiators, all of whom are bodybuilders, took the tests during their initial physicals and must agree to random tests while the show is on the air...

Baby, Baby

NICOLE RICHIE and CHRISTINA AGUILERA aren't the only stars who welcomed little bundles of joy over the weekend. Forty-year-old According to Jim star COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH and husband ROGER FISHMAN became the parents of a boy named JACOB EMERSON FISHMAN Friday in Los Angeles. It's the first child for the couple.

Meanwhile, People magazine reportsformer 52-year-old In Living Color star DAVID ALAN GRIER became a father last Thursday when wife CHRISTINE KIM gave birth to a girl they named LUISA DANBI-KIM.

Thorne-Smith and Grier each welcomed the addition to their broods at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the same hospital where Nicole Richie became a mommy on Friday.

Are those Gloden Globes in your pocket....

The Golden Globe Awards were presented with much less fanfare than usual last night in Beverly Hills. Since the ongoing Writers Guild strike forced the cancellation of the annual awards show, the winners were announced by entertainment news personalities at a news conference. The president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the awards, vowed that the glitzy ceremony would return next year.

Cable ruled the top TV awards. AMC's Mad Men was named best drama, while RICKY GERVAIS' HBO series Extras was the winner in the musical/comedy series category.

TELEVISION

Best Drama

Mad Men

Best Actor, Drama

Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Best Actress, Drama

Glenn Close, Damages

Best TV Series, Musical Or Comedy

Extras

Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy

Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Best Actor, Musical Or Comedy

David Duchovny, Californication

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For TV

Longford

Best Actress In A Mini-Series Or A Movie Made For TV

Queen Latifah, Life Support

Best Actor In A Mini-Series Or A Movie Made For TV

Jim Broadbent, Longford

Best Supporting Actress, TV Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For TV

Samantha Morton, Longford

Best Supporting Actor, TV Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For TV

Jeremy Piven, Entourage

TV This Weekend

Friday

ABC: Grey's Anatomy, Cashmere Mafia, 20/20 (NEW)

CBS: Ghost Whisperer (NEW), Moonlight (NEW), Numbers (NEW)

NBC: 1 vs. 100 (NEW), Friday Night Lights (NEW), Las Vegas (NEW)

FOX: Bones, House

CW: WWE Friday Night Smackdown

Saturday

ABC: Pearl Harbor (2001)

CBS: Football: Jacksonville vs. New England

NBC: Dateline (NEW)

FOX: Cops (1hr), America's Most Wanted

Sunday

ABC: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (NEW), Brothers & Sisters (NEW)

CBS: The Amazing Race 12 (NEW), Comanche Moon (NEW)

NBC: Dateline (NEW), Golden Globe (press conference style), American Gladiators

FOX: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (NEW), Family Guy (NEW), American Dad (NEW)

CW: Life is Wild (NEW), Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants

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TV FunHouse

Sopranos star JAMES GANDOLFINI is now engaged. An HBO spokesman says the actor and his longtime girlfriend, former model DEBORAH LIN, got engaged during the holidays. No wedding date was announced...

Actor/director MARIO VAN PEEBLES is joining the cast of ABC's daytime drama All My Children. Van Peebles will play Samuel Woods, a U.S. District Attorney who's running for the Senate. Van Pebbles film credits include New Jack City and Baadasssss. His first air date in January 29th...

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve attracted an average audience of 18.05 million total viewers -- 29 percent more viewers than NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly and Fox's New Year's Eve: Times Square 07 combined. Dick Clark's audience saw an increase of ten thousand viewers over New Year's Eve 2006...







ABC is recommitting itself to The Bachelorette. According to Variety, the dating show could return to television as soon as this summer. The Bachelorette, which reverses the premise of The Bachelor by having a female choose a new love from a group of several men, hasn't aired since 2005...

Lost....

Former Lost star MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ was released from jail Wednesday in Los Angeles after serving 18 days of a six-month sentence for violating probation related to a drunken driving case.The 29-year-old actress was set free under a jail overcrowding program that allows nonviolent female inmates to serve as little as ten percent of their sentence. Rodriguez benefited from the same program two years ago when she served just one day of a two-month sentence for another probation violation.Rodriguez pleaded no contest to drunken driving and hit-and-run in L.A. in 2003 and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Hawaii in 2005. Her most recent probation violation occurred when she failed to perform community service and was caught drinking while wearing an alcohol monitoring device. The actress appeared in season two of Lost.

Is Paula Back?

Has her years on American Idol inspired PAULA ABDUL to make a super-sized comeback? TVGuide.com's MICHAEL AUSIELLO reports that Abdul is in talks to perform during Fox's Super Bowl telecast next month. She may reportedly use the same choreography that she's currently rehearsing for a video to an upcoming duet with fellow Idol judge RANDY JACKSON.

Ausiello says Abdul would bring some intrigue to the February 3rd broadcast, saying, quote, "Paula is, let's just say an unpredictable personality. You never know what she's gonna be like in any given day." TOM PETTY is already slated to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Even if Abdul doesn't participate, American Idol will still leave its mark on the Super Bowl telecast, with RYAN SEACREST serving as an entertainment host on the pregame show

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TV Tonight (1/10)

ABC: Ugly Betty (NEW), Grey's Anatomy (NEW), Big Shots (NEW)

CBS: CSI: NY, CSI (NEW), Without a Trace (NEW)

NBC: My Name is Earl (NEW), 30 Rock (NEW), The Celebrity Apprentice (NEW), ER (NEW)

FOX: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (NEW), Don't Forget the Lyrics (NEW)

CW: Smallville, Supernatural

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TV Boogoloo

Spike TV has ordered six hour-long episodes of DEA, a reality series that will take viewers inside the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The show will follow agents in Detroit as they track down street dealers and international drug traffickers. The series premieres this spring and is being produced by NBC Today show weatherman AL ROKER through his production company...

People magazine reports that American Gladiators co-host LAILA ALI will serve as a contributing correspondent on CBS' The Early Show, starting tomorrow. Ali is a former Dancing with the Stars contestant...

NBC's freshman comedy Chuck will return on January 24th. The Celebrity Apprentice will air in-between two new episodes of the ZACHARY LEVI series, which were the last episodes completed before the start of the writers' strike...

Those are some Gloden Globes ya got there...

NBC's Golden Globes coverage this Sunday night will still have some star power, even though the ceremony itself was cancelled because of the writers' strike. Today show co-anchor MATT LAUER will host a two-hour edition of Dateline at 7 p.m. Eastern time, featuring interviews with Juno actress ELLEN PAGE, The Closer star KYRA SEDGWICK and other nominees. The program will also offer commentary from KATHY GRIFFIN and predictions from the network's Football Night in America team.

The Dateline special will precede the news conference at which the Golden Globes winners will be announced. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Globes, was left with no choice but to revamp the format this year, with stars threatening to skip the event in support of the striking writers. The 65th Annual Golden Globe Award Announcement, as NBC calls it, will take place at 9 p.m. Eastern time. An episode of American Gladiators will follow. **How the mighty have fallen**

The Golden Globes could suffer a huge drop in ratings without its usual glitz and glamour, if this week's broadcast of the People's Choice Awards was any indication. Only six million viewers tuned into CBS Tuesday night for the event -- a nearly 50-percent drop from last year's numbers. The People's Choice Awards also shook up its format by pre-taping the winners' acceptance speeches, again because of the writers' strike.

Some celebrities aren't too upset by the cancellation of the Globes ceremony. While promoting Sweeney Todd in Japan yesterday, JOHNNY DEPP sarcastically said he was disappointed, while director TIM BURTON was relieved that he didn't have to make the trip from his home in the UK to Los Angeles for the event.

TV Tonight (1/9)

ABC: Wife Swap (NEW), Supernanny (NEW), Cashmere Mafia (NEW)

CBS: Power of 10 (NEW), Criminal Minds (NEW), CSI: NY (NEW)

NBC: Deal or No Deal (NEW), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order (NEW)

FOX: Back to You, Back to You, 'Til Death

CW: Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants (NEW), Gossip Girl (NEW)

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TV Crap

FX will dig up more Dirt in March. The second season of the drama, starring COURTENEY COX as a tabloid editor, will begin on March 2nd, though only seven new episodes are in the can because of the writers' strike...

Big Brother will again watch over Showtime when it premieres next month. A live feed from the Big Brother house will air nightly on the SHO2 multiplex channel beginning on February 12th, the same day Big Brother returns on CBS. Showtime's three-hour broadcast of Big Brother: After Dark will air at midnight Eastern time...

The Coreys are coming back to A&E. The Hollywood Reporter says the cable network has picked up the reality series The Two Coreys, starring COREY HAIM and COREY FELDMAN, for a second season. The '80s stars had a falling out, and the new episodes will document whether they can kiss and make up. The Two Coreys could return in the spring...

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NBC scored a ratings victory last week with its Saturday coverage of the NFL playoffs. The most-watched primetime broadcast of the week was the Jacksonville Jaguars' opening-round win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, with 25.74 million viewers.

ABC's Desperate Housewives was the only non-sports program to enter the Nielsen's top five. Nearly 20 million people watched the follow-up to the show's tornado cliffhanger, which for now stands as the final episode of the season, unless the writers' strike is resolved in the near future.

NBC had a solid week of premieres, led by the return of Law & Order last Wednesday night. The first episode of the drama's 18th season was seen by 13.46 million viewers. Twelve million people toughed out the Sunday-night debut of American Gladiators, while DONALD TRUMP's Celebrity Apprentice welcomed 11 million viewers into the boardroom last Thursday.

NBC won the primetime ratings race for the week, followed by CBS, Fox, ABC, the CW, MyNetworkTV, and ION Television.

Here are the top 10 primetime programs for the week of December 31st-January 6th, according to Nielsen Media Research:

1. NFL Playoff Game 2: Jacksonville at Pittsburgh, NBC, 25.74 million viewers.

2. NFL Playoff Pre-Kick, NBC, 23.87 million viewers.

3. NFL Playoff Bridge, NBC, 23.48 million viewers.

4. AFC Wildcard Post Game, CBS, 21.37 million viewers.

5. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 19.78 million viewers.

6. 60 Minutes, CBS, 18.25 million viewers.

7. Law & Order, NBC, 13.46 million viewers.

8. Deal or No Deal (Thursday), NBC, 13.41 million viewers.

9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 13.25 million viewers.

10. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC, 12.6 million viewers

Is It Just Me....

Or is this strike really starting to kinda suck????????

The Show must Limp on!

The writers strike may have forced the cancellation of the glitzy Golden Globes ceremony, but organizers of the Academy Awards insisted Tuesday that their Oscar show is still a go. GIL CATES, producer of the Academy Awards broadcast, told reporters, quote, "We are going to do it. I can't elaborate on how we're going to do it, because I don't want anybody to deal with the elaboration in a way that might impact its success."

It'll be interesting to see how the Academy will pull things off. Without a special agreement from the writers union, Oscar organizers can't hire writers to work on the broadcast. Further, the Academy Awards broadcast is all about big stars, and the Screen Actors Guild -- the union for film and TV actors -- has already said its members won't cross the Writers Guild picket line to attend any awards ceremony.

While producers of the upcoming SAG awards have requested and received a special waiver from the WGA for member writers to work on that broadcast, the union has said it would reject any similar request from the Academy.

Veteran Hollywood producer HARVEY WEINSTEIN says no matter what Cates or anyone else says, if the writers are on strike and the actors' union supports them, there'll be no Oscar show. Weinstein says, quote, "It's as simple as that."Oscar nominations will be announced January 22nd. The Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for February 24th.

Silence Ain't so Golden...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the Golden Globe awards, has to return the five million dollars NBC paid it for the rights to the now canceled presentation ceremony. But that dollar amount is just the tip of the financial iceberg.

Due to the ongoing writers strike, NBC will be airing a one-hour awards press conference in place of the traditional Golden Globes ceremony, but the network will lose millions in ad revenue. Variety reports the three-hour awards event usually generates 15 to 20 million dollars in ad revenue for NBC, but advertisers will be paying greatly-reduced rates for spots in the press conference broadcast.

Also, the HFPA and Dick Clark Productions, the company hired to produce the awards event, have already spent between one and two million dollars on sets, lighting, music, crews, red carpet and security. The trade paper says that's money they won't be getting back. Several post-award parties have now been canceled, but many of those organizers have already shelled out money for catering fees and other non-refundable services. Industry insiders say those parties carry price tags as high as 750 thousand dollars.

So, what's the total damage done by the canceled Golden Globes? The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation estimates it could cost the local L.A. economy as much as 80 million dollars. That loss will affect hotels, restaurants, limo companies, stylists, photographers and messengers.

In other Golden Globe news, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday it will postpone the presentation of the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award to STEVEN SPIELBERG until 2009. The honor usually includes film clips and tributes from fellow filmmakers, and the organization decided a scaled-down press conference isn't the proper setting for such an honor.

The People have spoken...

The People's Choice Awards used a more laid-back approach last night in announcing the winners on the CBS telecast. Because of the writers' strike, the event opted for a pre-taped show -- organizers dubbed it a "magazine" format -- in which honorees accepted their awards from movie sets or other locations. The strike was referenced several times on the broadcast, including in an acceptance speech from a silent JOAQUIN PHOENIX, who instead used cue cards to give thanks. Some winners also answered questions sent in by fans.

Ten million people voted for the People's Choice Awards, which honored the public's favorites in music, movies and television. QUEEN LATIFAH hosted the two-hour CBS broadcast.Here's a complete list of winners for the 34th annual People's Choice Awards:

TV

Female TV Star: Katherine Heigl

Male TV Star: Patrick Dempsey

Talk Show Host: Ellen DeGeneres

Scene Stealer: Chandra Wilson

TV Drama: House

TV Comedy: Two and a Half Men

Reality Show: Dancing With the Stars

Game Show: Deal or No Deal

Sci-fi Show: Stargate Atlantis

Animated TV Show: The Simpsons

TV Tonight (1/8)

ABC: Just for Laughs (NEW) (1hr), According to Jim (NEW), Carpoolers (NEW), Cashmere Mafia

CBS: NCIS, People's Choice Awards (NEW)

NBC: The Biggest Loser: Couples (NEW), Law & Order (NEW)

FOX: Bones, House

CW: One Tree Hill (NEW), One Tree Hill (NEW)

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TV Potpourri

Showtime's hit series Dexter is moving to the CBS Television Network. Well, sort of. The series, which stars MICHAEL C. HALL as a police forensics examiner who moonlights as a serial killer, just wrapped up its second season on Showtime. Beginning Sunday, February 17th, CBS -- which owns Showtime -- will air all 12 episodes of Dexter's first season. It replaces the JAMES WOODS legal drama Shark, which will return later in the year. This marks the first time a full season of a top cable drama series will be shown on network television. It's yet another programming move by a TV network anxious for fresh shows in the face of the ongoing writers strike...

There could be another Mole sighting on ABC this summer, thanks to the continued scramble for new content as the WGA strike wears on. According to Variety, ABC is resurrecting the reality series, even though it hasn't aired in four years. However, the new edition will not feature celebrities, as the previous two seasons had. CNN's ANDERSON COOPER and TV personality AHMAD RASHAD, who each hosted two seasons of the show, aren't expected to return...

If One Tree Hill fell in a forest...

When we last saw the men and women of One Tree Hill, they had just graduated high school. Tonight, they find themselves in the real world on the fifth-season premiere of the CW drama. The two-hour episode skips past their college years and examines how Lucas, Peyton, Brooke and the others are adjusting to adult life. And as you may have heard, KEVIN FEDERLINE will make guest appearances this season as a rock musician. One Tree Hill returns at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

By the way, the CW and Macy's are currently holding a contest in which fans can win a walk-on role on One Tree Hill. You can learn all the details at www.cwtv.com/thecw/macys.

Then there's the People's Choice...

The 34th annual People's Choice Awards will present a new format tonight on CBS. Much like the Golden Globes, the event was forced to shake things up due to the ongoing writers' strike, announcing last month that winners would pre-record their acceptance speeches. The ceremony, which has now been dubbed a "magazine show," also solicited questions from fans to be answered by nominees. QUEEN LATIFAH is slated to host the telecast.

The People's Choice Whatever-They-Are broadcast, honoring fan favorites in music, movies and TV, airs on CBS tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern time.

Nice Globes!, part trace!

There won't be any Golden Globes ceremony on NBC this year. After last-ditch talks with the striking Writers Guild of America union fell through, organizers of the awards event announced the glitzy ceremony would be replaced with an hour-long press conference broadcast live by NBC News.

Look for that at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, January 13th.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is responsible for the Golden Globes, was forced to alter the event after all 72 of this year's nominated actors expressed solidarity with the striking writers through the actors' union, the Screen Actors Guild, and announced they wouldn't cross the picket line.

In announcing the switch to a bare-bones press conference to hand out awards in 25 categories, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president JORGE CAMARA said, quote, "We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television."

By using a press conference format and billing it as an hour-long NBC News report, award organizers and NBC had hoped some nominees would reconsider participating. Writers in NBC's news division are not represented by the Writers Guild of America, so technically, participating stars wouldn't be crossing the WGA picket line.

TV Tonight (1/7)

ABC: Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (NEW), October Road (NEW)

CBS: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami

NBC: American Gladiators (NEW), Deal or No Deal (NEW), Medium (NEW)

FOX: BCS Championship Game: LSU vs. Ohio State

CW: Everybody Hates Chris, Aliens in America, Girlfriends, The Game

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TV Hodgepodge

The CW network is spreading word that it's moving Gossip Girl to a new night. The freshman drama will move from Wednesday nights to Monday nights, beginning on January 28th. Also on the CW's revised midseason schedule is the second season of the reality series Pussycat Dolls Present, debuting on February 18th. This time, the show will put together a new band called GIRLICIOUS...

Actor AUSTIN NICHOLS pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of driving while visibly impaired, stemming from an incident in Jackson, Michigan last August. The 27-year old Nichols, whose credits include Deadwood and John From Cincinnati, paid a one-thousand-dollar fine...

Without a Trace actress POPPY MONTGOMERY and boyfriend ADAM KAUFMAN welcomed their first child on December 23rd. Their new son is named JACKSON PHILLIP KAUFMAN. Kaufman has appeared several times on Without a Trace, which stars Montgomery as FBI agent Samantha Spade...

Former Bewitched actress ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. She died in 1995 at age 62...