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The end is nigh-though not really that nigh-for Nip/Tuck.During the television Critics Association tour this morning, FX announced it has placed a final, 19-episode...

The Inquirer's Jonathan Storm is reporting this week from the television critics press tour in Beverly Hills. These items originally appeared in his blog, "From the Source," at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/from_the_source.

A summary of today's Hollywood happenings in television.

International News: Premiere has pay TV rights -- Leading German commercial broadcaster RTL television has inked a deal with pay TV operator Premiere to carry up to 18 matches of the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament, to be played in South Africa, exclusively on free TV.

After nine seasons, including one celebrity season, Australia's Channel 10 has cancelled Big Brother. The show will conclude a week from today with the final episode of the eighth regular season. Variety reports that its ratings 'fell from a high of 2.4 million to less than a million this eighth season.'The show's producer told the Sydney Morning Herald that it 'is still a very commercially viable property,' and suggested that it'd be back on another network 'in the near future.'In a statement, Channel 10's president said, ''Big Brother' is the undisputed granddaddy of modern, commercial reality television in Australia. Today's reality dramas have all, on some level, been inspired by 'Big Brother.' ... The show has taken on topics of race, sex, homosexuality, eating disorders and alcohol abuse, many of which had been handled gingerly, if at all, on TV.'Oz's Ten forecloses on 'Big Brother' [Variety]Endemol confident despite Big Brother eviction [Sydney Morning Herald]>> read the

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Phonically 'The Cleaner' is like 'The Closer,' sure, but more broadly it borrows from many masters of basic cable.

'Birth of a Surgeon' tells an admirable story of women in Mozambique who are being trained to perform Caesarean sections to counteract a severe shortage of doctors.

TV reviews: As likable as George Foreman is, television remains a ring in which he's just another palooka. Having tried a short-lived ABC sitcom in 1993, the two-time heavyweight champ gets the whole family into the act in this TV Land series, but Big George's rematch with TV again leaves him wheezing.

SAG leaders last week rejected what the Alliance of Motion Picture and television Producers had described as its final offer,...