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ABC has confirmed that Joy Behar is leaving The View when her contract expires at the end of the summer. A co-host of the show since its debut in 1997, Behar’s departure will leave Barbara Walters as the last remaining original cast member. Behar will then be a free agent as her Current TV show will also end when the network transitions to Al Jazeera. Behar will discuss her decision with her co-hosts Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd on The View today, at 11a. There have also been rumors that she may be heading to CNN, where she had her own show on Headline News and was Larry King’s guest host. On the heels of Behar’s announcement, there are now reports that Hasselbeck, who has a long-term contract with the show, will also be leaving at the end of the current season. However, the Hasselbeck rumors remained unconfirmed. If it comes to pass, this will leave Walters and ABC with two big seats to fill without losing any View-ers. It can be done, of course; the transition of Regis & Kelly to Kelly & Michael was a smooth changing of the guard.
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Valerie Harper, remembered from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off Rhoda, will appear on the syndicated daytime talk show The Doctors today for her first on-camera interview since announcing she has terminal brain cancer. Harper, whose doctors have given her as little as three months to live, will joined on air by her husband, Tony Cacciotti, and former co-stars from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ed Asner and Cloris Leachman.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Real Husbands of Hollywood, the semi-scripted reality show that follows Kevin Hart, Nick Cannon, Boris Kodjoe, Duane Martin, J.B. Smoove and Robin Thicke as they navigate their way through stardom beside their famous wives, has been renewed by BET for a second season. The network has ordered 12 new episodes of the reality series. The show’s entire cast is expected to return. Hip-hop star Nelly is also slated to appear in a recurring role.
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TLC‘s My Crazy Obsession, the series that exposes people’s most extreme and unique infatuations, returns for a second season on Wednesday, April 3 at 10p. Featured fixations will include a young woman obsessed with taking photos with celebrities, a woman obsessed with Barbies, and a man obsessed with Barbara Eden. The season culminates with troll, taxidermy, dumpster diving and bug eating obsessions.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Michael Rapaport, formerly of My Name Is Earl, has joined the cast of CBS‘ untitled comedy pilot written and produced by Raising Hope’s Greg Garcia. The project centers on the recently divorced Jack, played by Will Arnett. Rapaport is set to portray Jack’s brother-in-law, Adam.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Briga Heelan, who recurs as Holly on Cougar Town, has been tapped to co-star in the TBS pilot, Ground Floor. She’ll play Jennifer in the comedy about the modern world of corporate America.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Newcomer Dove Cameron has landed the dual role of identical twins in the Disney Channel newly-ordered comedy series, Liv & Maddie. Cameron will also star in Cloud 9, an upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Oz The Great And Powerful – $80.3 million
Jack The Giant Slayer – $10 million
Identity Thief – $6.3 million
Dead Man Down – $5.3 million
Snitch – $5.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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