CBS cancels "As the World Turns" after 54 years
The soap that helped launch the careers of James Earl Jones, Meg Ryan and Marissa Tomei will bid farewell next September.

Bryant Gumbel reveals he has lung cancer
The 61-year-old Gumbel was filling in for Regis Philbin when he broke the news that he had part of his lung removed recently, saying: "I'm okay for the time being."

MTV getting death threats over "Jersey Shore"
Fox News reports that MTV staffers have been barraged by abusive e-mails, phone calls and Facebook messages — many of which involve death threads. “People were going totally crazy, it was a nightmare,” an insider tells Fox, adding: “The MTV building in Times Square was getting crazy threats and they are in the process of hiring more security in bodyguards."
Another sponsor pulls out // Sports Guy: "Jersey" is almost like a Robert Altman film
Shame on MTV!: They wouldn't do a show like this starring blacks, Asians, Jews…

John Lithgow: "Dexter" is also a pretty funny show
"We laughed ourselves silly throughout the Thanksgiving episode," he says of his first regular TV role since "3rd Rock from the Sun." "It was so extreme, but we knew it was going to be a classic horror scene, just the velocity of it. We go from saying grace to me on my back with Dexter on top of me about to slit my throat in 2 1/2 minutes. There's a sort of giddy rush to that. It's also a very funny show. It follows all the rules of comedy. Dexter is constantly revealing these ironic asides that are just hilarious." PLUS: Watch animated "Dexter."

Letterman doesn't shy away from Tiger Woods jokes
Dave opened up last night's "Late Show" — his first since the Tiger scandal broke — by saying if Woods' troubles "happened three months ago, I’d have material for a year." PLUS: Tom Hanks helps Dave deliver the Tiger Top Ten list.

The 2000s: When TV became art
Sure, the 2000s will be remembered for the explosion of reality TV, starting with "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" in early 2000. But, as Emily Nussbaum points out, "for anyone who loves television, who adores it with the possessive and defensive eyes of a fan, this was most centrally and importantly the first decade when television became recognizable as art, great art: collectible and life-changing and transformative and lasting. As the sixties are to music and the seventies to movies, the aughts—which produced the best and worst shows in history—were to TV."

"TiVoed" is losing traction to "DVR'd"
More and more people are saying they "DVR'd" a show instead of "TiVoed," which should make TiVo very happy.

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