Fox has locked another piece of its fall schedule, picking up a full season’s worth of “North Shore.”
The network has ordered nine additional episodes of the Hawaii-based show, bringing it to the standard full-season complement of 22. The series is on hiatus for the next three weeks for the Olympics and the two-hour premiere of “The Complex: Malibu” but will return with new episodes Sept. 6.
Kilborn quitting ‘Late Late Show’
Craig Kilborn has surprised his bosses at CBS by telling them he wants out of “The Late Late Show.”
Kilborn, a former “SportsCenter” anchor and the first host of “The Daily Show,” has hosted the CBS late-night show for five years. His contract is up later this year, and he’s told the network he’s not looking for a renewal, the Hollywood trade papers report.
In a rarity for Hollywood, the split between Kilborn and CBS appears to be amicable. There has been little talk of big salary demands from Kilborn’s camp, nor has the network been unhappy with “The Late Late Show’s” performance.
The show draws about 1.7 million viewers per night, trailing NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” but beating ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants, which produces “The Late Late Show,” will start searching for a new host right away. Speculation has immediately jumped to O’Brien, who’s signed to NBC through 2005.
The thinking is that CBS would throw a pile of cash at O’Brien to switch networks, with the promise that he would inherit “The Late Show” whenever Letterman decides to call it quits. O’Brien has made no secret about wanting to move to the 11:30 p.m. ET spot, but that won’t happen anytime soon at his current employer: Jay Leno is signed to “The Tonight Show” through 2009.
Kilborn came to “The Late Late Show” in 1999, following three years as host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. From 1993-96, he worked on “SportsCenter,” to which he returned Sunday for a one-night turn as part of ESPN’s “Old School Week.”
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