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Fred Willard's improv series is a wipeout with ABC. The network is pulling the last two original episodes of "Trust Us With Your Life," a move that comes two weeks after Willard's lewd conduct arrest at an adult movie theater. Reruns of ABC's "Wipeout" will replace the Tuesday show hosted by Willard. The 72-year-old actor already had lost his job as narrator of a new PBS series, "Market Warriors."

The producers and cast of the ABC hit comedy series “Modern Family” settled their differences, avoided a lawsuit and will begin shooting Monday.

The Palins are creeping up on the Kardashians in their campaign to become the First Family of reality TV with news Friday that Bristol Palin had been cast in ABC’s fall all-star edition of “Dancing with the Stars.”

A majority of morning viewers has greeted the arrival of Savannah Guthrie with a yawn in her first week as "Today" show co-anchor.

NBC's "Today" was beaten last week by ABC archrival "Good Morning America" by 357,000 viewers, the Nielson Co. said. "GMA" drew an average of 4.57 million viewers, compared with 4.21 million for "Today," according to preliminary Nielsen figures released Monday. This represents the largest lead by "GMA" over "Today" in more than 17 years, while extending its top-ranked status to three consecutive weeks, ABC said.

The escalating war between ABC and CBS over their respective fame-seeking-narcissists-live-in-totally-wired-house series now threatens to consume both networks’ date-to-mate reality series. In the latest development, CBS has been compelled to move the unveiling of its new reality dating series, “3,” to July 29 — after learning of ABC’s plan to attack “3’s” originally scheduled July 22 launch by moving its season finale of “The Bachelorette” to that same Sunday night.

And that's a wrap! At the 2012 Daytime Emmy Awards, Regis Philbin, Kelly Ripa and the cast of "General Hospital" weren't the only ones celebrating their big wins. With ABC scoring 56 nominations and PBS nabbing 51, it was a big night for networks and viewers everywhere. Check out the list below for the winners of Saturday night's awards show.

“Dancing on the Stars,” CBS said, will be broadcast from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and will feature “moderately famous and sort of well-known people you almost recognize competing for big prizes by dancing on the graves of some of Hollywood’s most iconic and well-beloved stars of stage and screen.”

Add ABC to the list of broadcast networks loading up on comedy next season. In addition to its successful Wednesday comedy block, the network will launch another block on Tuesdays and will resurrect its Friday family comedy block, last seen during ABC’s “TGIF” days.

There was nothing desperate about this finale. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" concluded its rocky, racy and macabre eight-season run with a tidy, affectionate send-off....

Is your favorite in the first batch of ABC renewals? It's not a surprise that ABC granted the wish of "Once Upon a Time" fans and gave the show a second season. "Once" has been a success since it debuted last fall, but the news of the renewal will no doubt be welcome to fans of the fairytale show. "Thank you all so much for watching, we're beyond thrilled to continue on!" co-creator Adam Horowitz tweeted after announcing that the drama would be back.