TV Potpourri

MARTHA STEWART's mother, MARTHA KOSTYRA, passed away Friday at the age of 93. Kostyra, who was known as "Big Martha," often appeared on TV with her daughter. Stewart informed fans of her mother's death on her blog Saturday, and posted video clips of them together on TV in tribute...

OPRAH WINFREY handed out gifts ranging from refrigerators to camcorders to wrapping paper to her audience during a taping of her show in Macon, Georgia Saturday, as part of the show's theme, "Oprah's Favorite Things." It airs tomorrow. The taping is the first in a series of shows highlighting towns across the country...

NBC will air the Internet series Quarterlife, from the creators of Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, early next year. The 36 eight-minute episodes of the Web series, which premiered on MySpace.com November 11th, will be edited together to air on NBC as an hour-long episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It will also stream on NBC.com...

AL GORE will receive a special honor tonight in New York at the International Emmy Awards ceremony. ROBERT DENIRO will present the former vice president -- who's already won an Oscar, an Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize -- with the International Emmy Founders Award for his work as the co-chairman and co-founder of the interactive cable and satellite TV network Current TV...

ABC has picked up a full season of the newbie series Dirty Sexy Money. It's the first show on any network to get a pickup since the writers strike began on November 5th, according to The Hollywood Reporter...

The New York Post reports that presidential candidate BARACK OBAMA's wife, MICHELLE OBAMA, will guest co-host ABC's The View on December 5th...

Baby Hasselbeck UPDATE!

Three days after giving birth to a baby boy, ELISABETH HASSELBECK called her co-hosts on ABC's The View to reveal the child's name. TAYLOR THOMAS HASSELBECK was born Friday at an Arizona hospital, weighing in at just under eight pounds. The 30-year-old Hasselbeck joked yesterday that she was in labor for four or five thousand hours.

Taylor Thomas is Hasselbeck's second child with her husband, Arizona Cardinals football quarterback TIM HASSELBECK. They also share a two-year-old daughter, GRACE. Hasselbeck began her two-and-a-half-month maternity leave on October 23rd.

Baby Hasselbeck

The View co-host ELISABETH HASSELBECK gave birth to a boy Friday in Arizona. The baby is her second child with her husband, Arizona Cardinals quarterback TIM HASSELBECK. She'll reveal the name on today's episode of The View, when she calls her fellow co-hosts. Hasselbeck began her two-and-a-half-month maternity leave on October 23rd.