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Southland Abruptly Canceled Before Premiere

Southland

The Beautiful Life may have been pulled after only two episodes, but it least it had a chance to air.

After enduring a premiere date change and a casting shuffle, Southland has been canceled altogether. The network made the last minute decision just two weeks before Season 2 was set to begin.

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The Beautiful Life Canceled by CW

The Beautiful Life

There’s some good news and bad news for Mischa Barton.

The good news? She can now shelve that “My Wisdom Teeth Put Me in the Psych Ward” story. The bad news?  She now has more free time on her hands.

Despite a recent debut on the runway, The Beautiful Life has officially become the first major cancellation of the fall fashion season. The CW dimmed the lights on the Ashton Kutcher-produced show after two weeks of dismal ratings.

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FOX Changing Sunday Lineup

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Animation, Comedy, FOX, Cancellations, Gossip

King of the Hill

is reaching the end of its road on FOX, though the show has long been one of the anchors of its Sunday night, animated-series heavy lineup. Currently in its 13th season, final episodes of the series are expected to air next year.

Created by Beavis and Butthead mastermind Mike Judge, King details the life of Hank Hill, wife Peggy and son Bobby - and a cast of characters that represent the best and worst of Texas living. The Emmy-award winning show is likely being dropped for the new spin-off The Cleveland Show, expected to air during the 2009 season.

American Dad, which runs after Family Guy at the bottom of the 9 pm hour, will be renewed for a fifth year on the network.

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CBS Not Renewing Jericho

Jericho

Sorry, fans - your beloved show has officially come to the end of its run.  CBS finally announced today what many had already anticipated:  The program will not be coming back next year.

This news means next week’s episode will be the season - and series - finale.  Thankfully, the producers were prepared for this possible development.  Two endings were created in hopes of giving devoted viewers some sense of completion.  Unfortunately, I don’t believe Jericho could have ever ended the way anyone wanted it to.

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Saturday Night Live Replaces Janet Jackson with Mariah Carey

Mariah CareyAn untimely illness has forced Janet Jackson to cancel an upcoming appearance on this weekend’s .  (It was reported that the singer made a trip to the emergency room earlier this week due to a case of the flu.) 

Luckily for Lorne Michaels, the show was able to able to book someone with an equally high profile:  .

The gig is actually a win-win situation for the two parties.  Not only does the diva have an upcoming album to promote (E=MC2 comes out on April 15), the program has been trying to get the artist back on their stage for over 10 years.

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‘Dancing With The Stars’ Deals With Another Family Emergency

Jennifer LopezAccording to E! Online, another performer has had to make a last minute schedule change.  , who was to pretape a performance on Tuesday, had to step up her plans due to a ‘family emergency’.  Instead of forcing the producers to find new talent, Lopez apparently recorded her song tonight.

This would be the second Tuesday in a row the DTWS results show had a singer deal with a family issue.  Gloria Estefan canceled her performance last week because her mother suffered an intestinal rupture.  Two weeks before that, Jane Seymour was absent due to the death of her mother.  No further details were given regarding Jennifer Lopez’s situation.

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Kelly Clarkson Cancels Summer Tour

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Music, FOX, American Idol, Talent, Gossip, News

Kelly Clarkson, who was first introduced to the public as a contestant on a brand-new FOX show called American Idol, canceled her summer concert on Thursday. Clarkson has recently had problems with her record label and her manager, and says “touring is just too much too soon.” The real problem is not in Kelly’s reluctance to continue, however, but in the reluctance of her fans to purchase tickets. Clarkson booked several huge venues for the upcoming tour, and seats are not selling. Instead of scaling back on the dates and perhaps moving Clarkson from large arenas to more intimate settings, the entire summer tour has gone out the window. Will all the media attention and subsequent fall of her tour be enough to end Clarkson’s promising post-Idol career? Not hardly. Kelly Clarkson has one thing many pop divas of today lack: the courage to stick.

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