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· In a town hall meeting on the Fox lot yesterday, network president Peter Liguori delivered an ultimatum to his showrunners, threatening that those who don't staff and cast their pilots with diversity in mind might find themselves without a series pickup. Said Liguori, "We think as a network, it's the right moral thing to do," Liguori said, moments before announcing the positive example to be set by his always-virtuous alternative programming department, which is rushing Who Wants To Hire A Black Staff Writer? into production. [Variety]
· A little more on the CAA gas explosion. [THR]
· Sad news: Aardman and DreamWorks Animation end their "troubled six-year partnership," finally deciding that a mutual love of Claymation is just not enough to make a Hollywood marriage work. Also, it didn't help that Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away kind of bombed. [Variety]
· Speaking of pilots, Var lists all the current pilot pickups in one handy place, letting you know to whom you can direct your production resume. [Variety]
· Perhaps fearing that the American Idol Nielsen Death Star might vaporize them if they dared switch the channel after the show, audiences stuck around in mind-boggling, record numbers for House, which drew in 27.7 million viewers last night. [THR]