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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."

Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" one of television's most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, has died.

Andy Griffith died this morning at his North Carolina home, reports WITN-TV. The TV icon’s death was confirmed by Bill Friday, a close friend and a former president at the University of North Carolina. He was 86 years old. His cause of death has yet to be released, but he suffered from heart problems and quadruple-bypass surgery a decade ago.

Anderson Cooper has, at long last, publicly said he is gay. Cooper made the announcement in an email to writer Andrew Sullivan. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," he wrote.

"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek is in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from a mild heart attack....

Osbourne, 26, who welcomed daughter Pearl with his fiancée, Lisa Stelly, in April, was given the news of his diagnosis two weeks after his daughter's birth.

"Xena: Warrior Princess" star Lucy Lawless and seven fellow Greenpeace protesters pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawfully being on a ship, following a three-day protest aboard a Shell oil exploration vessel in February.

Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s TV comedy "Hogan's Heroes" and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show "Family Feud" has died.

The inventor of the television remote control, Eugene Polley, dies of natural causes, aged 96, in a Chicago hospital.

George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

FILE - This Feb. 5, 1998 file photo shows actor George Lindsey, who portrayed Goober, in the television series "The Andy Griffith Show".