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"Saturday Night Live" says Colin Jost will be the new man at the "Weekend Update" anchor desk. Jost, the NBC comedy show's head writer, succeeds outgoing "Update" anchor Seth Meyers, who soon takes over as host of the network's "Late Night." Jost will join Cecily Strong as co-anchor of the "SNL" spoof newscast on March 1. Head writer since 2012, he joined the "SNL" writing staff in 2005. He also has written and appears in "Staten Island Summer," an upcoming movie based on his days a lifeguard. A 2004 graduate of Harvard University, he was president of the Harvard Lampoon.
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Captain and Tennille, the popular 1970s married pop duo that sang of sharing forever and of love keeping them together, are splitting. Cathryn Antoinette Tennille, better known as "Toni," has filed in an Arizona court to end her 38-year marriage to Daryl Dragon, or "The Captain." The two already are listed as ex-husband and ex-wife on their website, which says while their marriage appeared to be rock-solid, "almost all people naturally evolve over time, (and) sometimes hidden feelings start to be uncovered." The divorce petition says the couple's marriage is irretrievably broken. They were married the same year their hit song, "Love Will Keep Us Together," earned a Grammy award for record of the year in 1975.
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Angela Lansbury says she's relieved that a planned remake of her classic whodunit series "Murder, She Wrote" has been canceled. Lansbury had been critical of NBC's idea of a reboot starring Octavia Spencer. The entertainment website Deadline.com reported this week that NBC was not going ahead with the show.
Lansbury said Thursday she thought the remake was a bad idea from the start. “I couldn’t believe that they would even consider doing such a thing,” Lansbury said. “I think it was an awful mistake and it was a terrible disservice” to Spencer, she said. “I have too much admiration for her to saddle her with the awful responsibility of having to bring that title into a different venue.”
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NBC is confirming that Bill Cosby is developing a possible new sitcom he would star in.The deal brings the 76-year-old entertainer together with a writing staff to create a script for a comedy that casts Cosby as the patriarch of a multigenerational family. An NBC spokesman said this week that, as yet, there is no series order, nor even a deal to produce a pilot episode.
Cosby’s greatest TV triumph began at NBC three decades ago, when “The Cosby Show” launched in September 1984. It ran for eight seasons.
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