The FOX animated comedy ‘Futurama‘ is being reborn at cable network Comedy Central.

CBS is sending newly acquired Evening News anchor Katie Couric on a tour around the country to find out what people want to see on the news.

There’s mucho controversy over a sex scene involving Denis Leary’s character on last week’s episode of “Rescue Me” on F/X.

TV Guide’s television guru Michael Auseillo talks about Academy Award winner Sally Field being courted for ABC’s fall show Brothers and Sisters to play Calista Flockhart’s mother. How the two of them look ANYTHING alike, is a mystery to me.

Chris O’Donnell, or how he’ll always be known to me, Robin, will be starring in The Company, a new vehicle on TNT. How he’ll be in this TNT thing, yet still be McVet on Grey’s Anatomy…I really don’t know.

Despite winning two Emmys last year, Showtime’s Huff never did well in the ratings, and the network has decided to axe the Hank Azaria comedy.

Everyone’s favorite Entertainment Weekly writer Michael Slezak weighs in on who doesn’t deserve an Emmy this year?

We all really need Dom to get off of Entourage. Apparently everyone else does too–except for Vince.

Meredith Vieira didn’t see Katie Couric’s send-off from the “Today” show - and maybe that’s a good thing.

Vieira, who’s leaving “The View” to replace Couric on “Today,” gets her own show-long farewell next Friday, her last day on the ABC morning gabfest after nine years.

“I wasn’t able to see Katie Couric’s send-off yesterday, but I got a copy,” Vieira said on yesterday’s “View.” “I thought that was fantastic … she’s an amazing woman. It was very moving, very touching.

“I thought it was terrific,” she said, “and also scary.”

“The View” is taking a different approach with Vieira’s farewell, keeping the hoopla to a minimum.

Unlike Couric’s marathon goodbye tour, spanning several weeks and capped off by a three-hour tearfest, “The View” will devote only three shows to Vieira’s departure, starting next Wednesday (11 a.m./Ch. 7) with segments highlighting Vieira’s “most memorable, outlandish and hysterical” on-air moments.

What the show has in store for Friday’s finale is anyone’s guess.

“Nobody likes to laugh like Meredith, and on her final day, the joke’s on her,” executive producer Bill Geddie told The Post yesterday via e-mail.

“There will even be a big surprise for the audience - a guest who will need no introduction.”

ABC is already trumpeting Vieira’s finale with a promo showing clips throughout her years on the show.

“She’s a mom, a married lady, a millionaire,” the promo blares. “She’s a co-host, a clown, a cut-up and a klutz.

“And now she’s history. Meredith is leaving ‘The View‘ for a better tomorrow - make that ‘Today‘ - so join us at ‘The View‘ as we say goodbye to Meredith.”

Vieira, 52, joined “The View” upon its launch in 1997, and has been considered the show’s “anchor” and “voice of reason” ever since.

She also hosts the daytime version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”

Vieira inked a reported four-year, $40 million deal in April to co-host “Today” with Matt Lauer. She begins her new gig in September.

Rosie O’Donnell will replace Vieira on “The View.”

Source: USA Today

Katie Couric’s farewell special on NBC’s Today was watched by 8.4 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research figures released Thursday.

It ranked as the biggest audience for a single Today telecast since the morning after the 2004 elections, when 9 million watched. Since 1987, the only other Today shows watched by more viewers were those that followed the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and the 2000 election.

Today dedicated the Wednesday morning show to Couric, who’s leaving to anchor the CBS Evening News. It brought to a close Couric’s 15 years at the program, which has consistently been the top-rated morning show.

Couric, 49, will be replaced by Meredith Vieira of The View.

President Bush will join his wife Laura Bush as well as family members of those who died on September 11, 2001 in a screening of critically acclaimed tragic film “United 93“. No information as to the exact date this will happen, but considering that I have seen the movie and know how it portrays Bush and his administration’s handling of the events on 9/11, it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall while he screens this film. I mean seriously..a line is “Where is the president?”, “…We don’t know.” I do. Reading “The Pet Goat“.

It was confirmed yesterday that American Idol runner-up bluesy songstress Katharine McPhee will join Andrea Bocelli on his June tour. I don’t know if you could really call it a “tour” seeing as how all but two of the dates are in Los Angeles, but nonetheless it should be a hot summer ticket–though no rival to the American Idols Live tour, which has sold out so quickly, they’ve recently added 20 more dates. It only goes to show just how much more popular this show has become over the years–a tour which at first was struggling so bad it was nearly scrapped altogether has now become one of the hottest events of the summer. How will Katharine do Bocelli and Idol you ask? Well Bocelli’s tour is in June, and the Idol tour doesn’t begin until July.

In other interesting McPhee news, though originally Katharine’s post-Idol single was to be the God-awful “My Destiny” with the Aretha Franklin cover from the Idol “Encores” CD as a B-Side, according to the image of her CD cover at Amazon, “Think” has been replaced with her signature song “Over The Rainbow” (which they wrongly have titled “Somewhere Over The Rainbow), presumably the one she just recently recorded with big-time producer David Foster (Bocelli, Dion, Houston). Oddly though, “Think” is still listed as the 2nd track.

Looks like Katharine’s got a busy year ahead of her, considering the fact that she’s got her album to develop and record, two tours to embark on, loads of press, a call from Steven Spielberg, and a rumored casting in Joss Whedon’s “Wonder Woman.”

As to whether Katharine can act–this in from TV Guide:

According to producer-writer David Holden, who cast her in ill-fated mall-based MTV soap You Are Here (aka U R ?), she most definitely can act. “She was very, very convincing,” he says of McPhee, who played a high-school outcast living in her younger sister’s more popular shadow. And regarding the Wonder Woman thing, I passed your suggestion on to Kat herself when she dropped by our offices yesterday. Naturally she was all for it. “I would need to get a trainer first,” she said with a laugh. “I haven’t worked out in four months.”

Today Katie Couric says her final goodbyes on NBC’s Today Show, after weeks and weeks of re-visiting old clips and hearing well-wishes from interviewed celebrities that have appeared on the program. Speculation of Katie’s move to the CBS Evening News created a whirlwind earlier this year, and Couric finally came on the air to confirm the news–which then prompted NBC to replace her with The View’s Meredith Vieira. Many wonder if the Today Show can survive without Couric, who apparently brought sex to daytime television. I for one, have always found Matt Lauer to be sexier. But to each his own. Why do I get the feeling when she gives her goodbyes, she’s gonna pop out with a red clown nose and a handful of confetti and shout it was a joke all along? Damn publicity stunts.

Already flashing signs of an easy rapport with Matt Lauer four months after their first “blind date,” Meredith Vieira was introduced Thursday as his new “Today” show partner.

NBC moved swiftly to get Vieira, 52, in place one day after Katie Couric announced she was taking a job as “CBS Evening News” anchor. It’s the first on-air personnel change in a decade on television’s dominant morning program.

Vieira has spent the last nine years on the daytime chat show “The View” but also has an extensive news background, including a stint on “60 Minutes.”

“If you were building a morning show host from scratch, she would be the prototype,” said Jeff Zucker, CEO of the NBC Universal Television Group. “She has the perfect combination of news background and talk background. She’s got intelligence, grace, humor and those are the qualities you look for when you’re trying to fill this role.”

Zucker began his courtship of Vieira last October, when he called and asked to give her a ride from “The View” studio to where she was taping shows as host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” It’s normally a three-minute ride on Manhattan’s upper West Side.

Zucker showed up in a black SUV with tinted windows. Aware that Couric was considering leaving, he asked Vieira to think about whether she wanted to get into morning television.

She met Lauer at his apartment for dinner in December. “It was like going out on a blind date and finding out you really like the guy,” she said.

With chemistry as important as ability on morning TV, Lauer and Vieira tried to display it at Thursday’s news conference announcing their pairing, which will begin in September. He flashed mock anger when Vieira interrupted one of his stories.

“Can I tell the story?” he said. “Is this going to happen? I’ve been going through 10 years of this.”

Vieira said she expects to leave “The View” at the end of next month.

NBC chose Vieira over several internal candidates, including weekend “Today” anchor Campbell Brown, newswoman Natalie Morales and “Today” newsreader Ann Curry. Brown and Morales had subbed for Couric on “Today” while she was on vacation at the end of last month.

TVWeek reports Katie Couric and CBS have reached a deal in principle for her to anchor ‘CBS Evening News’ and an announcement was imminent.

Couric would become the first woman to be the sole anchor of a major network newscast, the TV industry news magazine said on its Web site.

CBS has reportedly agreed to let NBC first announce Couric was leaving ‘Today’ after 15 years, after which CBS will announce her new position behind Dan Rather`s anchor desk, TVWeek.com said.

CBS, NBC and Couric’s representatives all declined to comment on the report.

Couric’s $65 million contract with NBC runs out in May.

Stories are again heating up that after 15 years Katie Couric will be vacating her Today show perch, possibly to take up Dan Rather’s former anchor seat in CBS Evening News.

Should she make such a leap, those in line as likely replacements to take her job at NBC are Campbell Brown, Ann Curry, Natalie Morales or Meredith Vieira, the Associated Press reports.

“It’s an unusual situation, bordering on unique, given that Katie is one of the few bona fide superstars in the history of television news. It’s not a routine talent change,” said former CBS News President Andrew Heyward, who stressed he has no inside knowledge about what NBC is thinking.

As for how Couric would fit in the later hour, where she would be playing to a different – and much older – audience, media analyst Andrew Tyndall tells The New York Times: “Katie Couric’s ambition is totally understandable. What is more difficult to understand (is) why CBS would feel that Couric, of all people is the one who is uniquely qualified to do that job.”

Currently, The CBS Evening News is anchored by Bob Schieffer, 69 – who’s 20 years older than Couric, but has helped the network boost its ratings for the newscast.

And because for every action there is a reaction, The Times speculates that should Couric move on, ABC will have the chance to overtake Today’s ratings stranglehold over Good Morning America, and also allow GMA co-anchor and shining star Diane Sawyer to move to evening, as well.