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JON STEWART and STEPHEN COLBERT will be back with more fake news on January 7th, albeit without the help of their writing staffs. Comedy Central announced yesterday that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will return on that date, following a hiatus brought on by the seven-week-old writers' strike.

Stewart and Colbert said in a joint statement, quote, "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."

The Writers Guild of America didn't show as much humor in its own statement, saying, quote, "Comedy Central forcing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on the air will not give the viewers the quality shows they've come to expect."

TV Boogoloo

ABC isn't questioning the success of Samantha Who?. The CHRISTINA APPLEGATE comedy has been picked up for a full season. Samantha Who? is among the most-watched new shows to debut this fall...

NBC's The Office could open a new branch. TVGuide.com reports that the network is developing an episode featuring new characters who could be moved into a proposed spin-off series, which wouldn't include any of the major Office staff members. A similar strategy was used for the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice...

TVGuide.com reports that SNOOP DOGG will guest star as himself in the December 13th episode of ABC's Ugly Betty...

ER actor MEKHI PHIFER became a new father yesterday. According to People magazine, Phifer and fiancee ONI SOURATHA welcomed their first child together, a son named MEKHI THIRA PHIFER. Phifer also has an eight-year-old son from a previous relationship...

The Biography Channel will premiere nine episodes of its series Biography in November. Episodes featuring JON STEWART and Grey's Anatomy actor PATRICK DEMPSEY will debut on November 7th...

The Hollywood Reporter says JAMES CAAN will play a mob boss in the Lifetime movie Wisegal. ALYSSA MILANO will also star as a Mafia confidante who's involved in a risky romance...


*Snoop Dog on Ugly Betty? Wow...What's that cloud of smoke over Betty's desk?