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The Wanda Sykes Show is Over — Here’s Who Should Replace Her

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Well, this isn’t a good week for female comedians and their TV star vehicles : Deadline reports that Wanda Sykes is about to lose her Fox talk show , which she’s only had since November. The 46-year-old comedian regularly pulls in ratings below her late-Saturday timeslot’s previous program, MadTV . Any setback for the vivacious Sykes is a downer, but one of her potential replacements is another famous comedian — and I’d prefer watching him revamp his failed sketch show from the ’90s.

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Charlie Kaufman Rewrote Kung Fu Panda 2

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What’s Charlie Kaufman been up to since writing and directing Synechdoche, New York ? Oh, just putting a polish on some of the biggest animated franchises in town. THR brings word that the venerated screenwriter spent two weeks punching up Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom , while a Slashfilm commenter in the know says Kaufman pulled the same duty on Shrek Forever After . Should either of the movies existentially fold in on themselves, I guess we’ll know for sure. [ THR via Slashfilm ]

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Last Night on Community: Final Exams

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Here’s something you don’t see every day: A season finale that wasn’t actually a season finale. But with the way Community has treated television conventions during its successful freshman year run, why should you have expected anything less? So everybody’s favorite Spanish 101 study group took their final exams and passed — though if you DVR’ d the episode there’s a good chance you might have missed that part — and it’s now time to look forward to Anthropology. But what about next week’s actual season finale? Don’t worry about that now, they’ve got Good Will Hunting to spoof!

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Aaron Sorkin Comes to Newsweek’s Aid in Gay Actor Controversy… Sort Of

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It’s been a rough week for Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh: after writing an editorial about how he can’t buy gay actors in straight roles, he was eviscerated by Kristin Chenoweth and made the target of a boycott by Glee creator Ryan Murphy, despite his hasty attempt to reframe his intentions . Today, though, Setoodeh found an unlikely defender in The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin.

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Will Tonight’s Guest-Star-Laden 30 Rock Mark an Official Shark Jump?

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Ever since the Megan Mullally-Oprah Winfrey-Steve Martin-Jennifer Aniston onslaught of season three, 30 Rock has garnered a reputation — good and bad — for booking esteemed guest-stars. We’ve been treated to appearances by everyone from James Franco to Jon Bon Jovi to Buzz Aldrin in the current season, and tonight’s episode, entitled “Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land,” will present a full credits sequence worth of the show’s past gets — with room for surprises. Should we be worried that 30 Rock , a show that once gleamed with invention and singular personality, is now a carnivalesque showcase of showbiz connections?

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On VOD: 7 Films Far Preferable to The Human Centipede

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Hubbub aside, there are other slabs of fresh kill available on VOD besides The Human Centipede , which reminded me mostly of the Franken-toys crawling through Sid’s bedroom in Toy Story , a scene that was far more chilling. And you didn’t pity the actors. (Also, come on: The “centipede” idea wouldn’t work at all. After one G.I. tract is done with foodstuff, there’s nothing left for the next two! They’d starve! Come on!) No, better to search the cloud for more life-affirming grist — because, well, you’re alive, and your mouth isn’t sewn to my anus.

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Taylor Lautner’s ‘Cooler of Meat’ Diet and 4 Other Revelations From Oprah’s Twilight Special

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To the delight of shrieking Twi-hards across America, Oprah’s Twilight spectacul-aaaaaaar aired today. Kristen Stewart spent the hour fidgeting in her seat and avoiding eye contact with everyone, even the Jamaican fan whom Oprah had flown in just to meet her. Robert Pattinson responded to every serious questions with quippy answers (“She’s pregnant,” he shouted when Oprah asked if he was dating Stewart). Taylor Lautner talked about his abs and Dakota Fanning seemed wise beyond her years. Basically, it was every Twilight promotional interview you have ever seen plus Oprah. Fortunately, Movieline has compiled the five anecdotes you have not already heard a thousand times after the jump.

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How Much More Money Can NBC Make Off of Betty White?

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This morning, NBC announced that it plans on taking advantage of the same social networking tool that swept Betty White into Studio 8H and helped rally over 12 million people into actually watching Saturday Night Live this weekend. The network’s Facebook-compatible program, Fan It, will reward NBC viewers for talking online to their friends about NBC shows with NBC merchandise. Interested, I clicked over to NBC’ s web store just to see if there was any swag that could possibly sway me into enlisting in NBC’ s incestuous PR machine. And there it was, right next to the Biggest Loser Bath Scale ($40) and the Heroes Helix Symbol Pendant Necklace ($15): proof that NBC is still exploiting Betty White.

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Moment of Truth: Director Daniel Kraus Shows America its Work Face

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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Daniel Kraus, whose superb Work Series gets a showcase this weekend in Chicago . Remember those seven masterpieces of the ’00s you’ve likely never seen ? Hopefully you have checked out at least some of them by now — particularly the endlessly intriguing work of Chicago filmmaker Daniel Kraus. Since 2004, the documentarian has delivered three films chronicling ordinary Americans at their rather extraordinary jobs. Their tiles are self-explanatory and deceptively simple — Sheriff , Musician and Kraus’s latest, Professor . The films, meanwhile, are anything but.

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The Easy A Trailer: Bad Reputation

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Three things in Hollywood will never go out of fashion: Comedies about losing virginity, setting literary classics in high school and 20-something actors playing teenagers. So it’s probably a good thing for Easy A that it has all of these things in excess. And that it’s also the first opportunity at a leading role for Movieline favorite Emma Stone doesn’t hurt either, just so long as your tolerance for Tom Cruise jokes hasn’t waned since 2007.

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