Piers Morgan was, until this week, the face of both NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.” Now that Morgan has stated that he’s leaving “Talent,” tweeting, “Turned out that juggling’s harder than it looks, so I’m going to focus on CNN,” news has surfaced that a new judge may have been found. According to The Hollywood Reporter, shock jock Howard Stern is currently in talks to replace Piers as a judge on the popular talent show. According to the article, Stern is a huge fan of the show and is enthusiastic about being involved with the show. This would be great for NBC–not only does Stern have…

A man who was caught on NBC’s “To Catch A Predator,” a show in which alleged pedophiles are trapped by NBC’s Chris Hansen and a watchdog group, is now suing the network for violating his rights to privacy and causing intentional emotional distress. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a federal judge in California is allowing plaintiff Anurag Tiwari to pursue his suit against the network. Tiwari, formerly employed with Sun Microsystems as an engineer, was caught on the show in 2006. He was eventually charged with a misdemeanor which was later reduced to a criminal infraction as part of a plea deal. Afterwards, Tiwari sued the network, stating his civil…

Eddie Cibrian was injured during the evening of October 4 while filming on the Chicago set of NBC’s ‘The Playboy Club,’ the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. The 38-year-old actor suffered a deep gash on his right heel after it was caught under a 200 pound steel door. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment. Cibrian was filming scenes as his character, male lead Nick Dalton, a lawyer and Playboy Club keyholder, at the 2558 West 16th West Side studio. No further details on the actor’s injuries have been released. While NBC announced it canceled the period drama series earlier that day, after the third episode pulled in 3.5…

Some more shocking television news today: Snoop Dogg has gotten his comedy sold to NBC ShockYa reported on this a few weeks ago when the comedy was still in talks, but now it is official, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Snoop Dogg, along with sitcom producer Don Reo, have sold a comedy pitch to the network. The comedy, which comes from Warner Bros. TV, will have Reo as a writer and executive producer. Snoop Dogg will produce and star as a father who has a family of unique, misfit kids. Ted Chung will also produce. You can read more about the show here at The Hollywood Reporter, but as a…

After NBC announced its new drama ‘The Playboy Club’ was the first cancellation of the Fall 2011 season, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has voiced his opinion on why he thinks the series failed, AOL TV is reporting. He Tweeted the show “should have been on cable, aimed at a more adult audience.” The Parents Television Council (PTC) agreed with Hefner, after urging NBC affiliates to drop ‘The Playboy Club’ for months. PTC President Tim Winter said bringing the show to broadcast television “was a poor programming decision from the start.” Hefner also Tweeted that a movie based on ‘The Playboy Club’ may be produced. “There is renewed studio interest in…

The first casualty of the 2011 Fall television season has been announced! Members of the Parents Television Council should be happy. “The Playboy Club” has been cancelled, NBC announced today. The show will be replaced by Brian Williams’ newsmagazine show, “Rock Center” beginning October 31. Until “Rock Central” airs, however, “Prime Suspect” repeats will air in “The Playboy Club”‘s timeslot. Even though the series was actually finally starting to find a groove, the show was cancelled due to its abysmal ratings: its premiere on September 20 only garnered 5 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The second episode garnered less…

Kenan Thompson, known for “Saturday Night Live” and “Kenan and Kel,” has gotten engaged to model Christina Evangeline, according to US Weekly. A representative for Thompson confirmed the news to the magazine and according to The Dirty, the wedding will take place November 11, 2011. According to the NY Daily Post, Evangeline wrote on her twitter page, “[Kenan]‘s my best friend…I could only be so lucky. Thompson got his start on Nickelodeon in 1994, acting on the show “All That,” a type of “SNL”-style show aimed at pre-teens and teenagers. He later moved from that show to the co-host and star in “Kenan and Kel” along with fellow “All That”…

Welcome to a new segment called “Top 10 Shocking Stories,” where we’ll be discussing the top ten stories of the week. Ordinarily, the top stories of the week would still be about the second episodes of the new fall shows, such as “The New Girl,” “Pan Am,” “The Playboy Club,” “Prime Suspect” and others, as well as the first episode of “Terra Nova.” But, all news has been obliterated by Michael Jackson–the involuntary manslaughter case of Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, started Monday, Sept. 26, and that’s dominated a lot of the news cycle. So, with that introduction, here are the links to some of the stories America–or, in the case…

Remember when Adam Levine unleashed some comments about “American Idol”‘s perceived “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when it comes to their contestants? Well, The Hollywood Reporter asked singer Melissa Etheridge about the comments, and she said she can see why gay contestants on “The Voice” might have better chances than on “American Idol.” “That’s what ‘The Voice’ is about,” she said. “You hear the voice first before you make the judgment. I love that with the Beverly [McClellan] girl…a bald, pierced tattoo, kilt-wearing dyke. And shes got this great voice, and you hear the voice first and then your eyes make the judgment.” She also said she talked to McClellan…

The minds behind the Texas football series ‘Friday Night Lights’ have plans to reunite. According to Variety, Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey, both executive producers from the drama series, and co-executive producer Liz Heldens, are all teaming up once again to work on a new western series for the NBC Network and Universal Media Studios. The show would reportedly be told through a female point of view, and is much in need since westerns in TV Land are few and far between. Excited about the trio penning a script, NBC’s chairman of entertainment, Robert Greenblatt “is said to be keen on trying to revive the genre if the right project…