Wendy William's bizarre interview with Susan Lucci, Countess LuAnn has a new single, True Blood's new trailer, and the lowdown on all of your favorite canceled shows.


A shot of 1966's Batman and Robin opening sequence. Image via Julia Segal.

What's the Status of Your Favorite Major TV Network Shows?

  • ABC: Canceled FlashForward, Scrubs, Romantically Challenged, and Better Off Ted. Picked up V for another season.
  • NBC: Canceled Law & Order, Heroes, Mercy, and The Rockford Files; Renewed Chuck; and picked up Friends With Benefits and The Cape.
  • Fox: Canceled The Wanda Sykes Show and picked up Running Wilde.

In TV News...

  • Wendy Williams had a bizarre interview with Susan Lucci yesterday and it appears that their "live skype interview" was pretaped. This kind of thing you can't even make up. [Tabloid Prodigy]
  • Believe your ears: Real Housewives' Countess LuAnn has recorded a second single titled "Chic, C'est la Vie." [Vulture]
  • Highlights from last night's final celebration of Lost in Los Angeles. [TV Squad]
  • There's a new True Blood trailer our today. [HBO]
  • Here's a few comedic pictures of Sting's over-sexual performance on The Today Show. [Best Week Ever]
  • Megan Mulally says that "Karen: The Musical" is on hold. We had no idea this was even a possibility. [TV Squad]

Around the Web...

  • More news on the Spiderman musical that was headed to broadway—it might tour big areas instead. [NY Post]
  • Ryan Gosling has beef with the classic children's book The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. [Vulture]
  • A guy who interviewed various pretty inebriated Gawker.TV-related folk in January finally got aroundn to posting it. [Huffington Post]