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Tyra Banks will have a second show on The CW the first being America’s Next Top Model, and now also moving to the network in September ’09 is her first-run syndicated The Tyra Banks Show. It will be the start of the show’s fifth season.  Distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and produced by Bankable Productions in association with Telepictures Productions, the one-hour talk show will air in double runs Monday-Friday from 3-4p and 4-5p. The deal allows new episodes of The Tyra Banks Show to air in syndication on its affiliates through the 2008-09 season. (Cynopsis 11/24)

On NBC, a couple of shows will change places as Crusoe moves to Saturdays starting December 6 and Lipstick Jungle slides into the 9p Friday slot vacated by Crusoe beginning December 5, cites Variety. Lately, Lipstick Jungle has aired at 10p Fridays and since it has done better than expected in this time period, NBC opted to schedule its four remaining episodes airing them December 5 and 12 and January 2 and 9. On Fridays, Lipstick Jungle will be flanked by Deal or No Deal at 8p and Dateline NBC at 10p. (Cynopsis 11/24)

The FCC, with support from the Department of Justice, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari last Wednesday, asking the Supreme Court to overturn the CBS Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime show decision. The FCC contends last July’s ruling from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was flimsy. (Cynopsis 11/24)

Fox is ditching its Saturday morning kids block altogether and will replace it with infomercials come January 2009, according to a report in Variety.  This comes on the heels of news earlier this month that Fox settled its lawsuit with 4Kids Entertainment, which will effectively end the 4KidsTV four-hour Saturday morning kids programming block (8a-12p), currently airing on Fox, at the end of December 2008. (Cynopsis 11/24)

MTV pulls double duty as a new season of A Shot at Love – aka A Double Shot at Love – comes back December 9 at 10p with twin sisters Rikki and Vikki looking for love among a group of straight guys and lesbians. (Cynopsis 11/24)

Comcast last week added Fox News Channel, FX and Speed to its high-definition lineup in the Baltimore area. Comcast now offers 41 channels in HD in the area, 15 of which have been added in the last year alone. American City Business Journals/Baltimore (11/21)

Comcast will set up shop in about 400 Sears, Roebuck and Co. stores across the country. As part of the deal, Comcast will train Sears employees in the finer points of the company’s cable TV, broadband and phone offerings so that they can pass along that information to Sears shoppers. CED Magazine.com (11/21)