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Fox orders another season of the dance competition series.

AP - A key 'American Idol' producer who's guided the top-rated TV show since its debut is leaving the job as the Fox juggernaut faces the challenge of staying on top in its eighth season.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Kyle Busch can't win everywhere, proven by two horrendous races this season at Pocono Raceway . The Sprint Cup Series points leader ran out of gas Sunday and wound up a frustrating 36th. As miserable as the final result was...

For the next several weeks, DVD releases are going to lean heavily towards television - to get us all excited for the coming season, of course. Still, there are several new movies worth knowing about.

American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe will not produce the show's eighth season, which is currently holding its auditions. He will stay with the show that he judges and produces, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, which today was renewed for a fifth season.In a statement released by Fox, and reproduced by TV Week, Lythgoe said, 'My summer will be taken up by travels to South Africa, Australia and Canada to work on local versions of ('SYTYCD'). I will step back from my day-to-day producing work on 'American Idol' and will be devoting my time to a new venture with Simon Fuller.' Fox said, 'While we are disappointed that he will no longer be executive producing 'American Idol,' we are pleased to continue working with him on 'So You Think You Can Dance' and look forward to working with him on his new projects.'A month ago, TV Week reported that he would 'be absent during the filming of most, if not all, of the show's audition rounds' and said that 'led some observers to suggest

West Coast Guy has covered pro sports for various papers across California and has been betting since 1978. You can almost smell - and taste - the late summer smog out here. The brats are headed back to school (kids, not sausages), which ...

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) -When it came to crunch time, Carl Edwards had a dominating car. But it was good fortune that put him in position to take advantage of it Sunday at Pocono Raceway . ''Luck went our way today,'' Edwards said after winning his...

After a viewer vote, Jennifer Bertrand defeated Matt Locke to become HGTV's third Design Star.Because no one at HGTV has apparently ever watched the two previous, identically bad finales that they aired. Last night's finale was as dull as the previous two, and gave no time at all for Jennifer to do anything other than be covered in confetti.The highlight of the long hour was when the editors gathered clips of designers saying the same thing over and over again (like Michael's variants of 'you've got to be kidding me'), but they did that during the first-season finale, too. Overall, the finale helped prove that the show, while compelling and engaging to watch, is still an inferior wannabe compared to its sibling network's Next Food Network Star competition.Mikey V. didn't show up for the reunion and we were given no explanation at all, not even a clip of his work, nor any indication if he was absent due to his previous on-screen appearance or something entirely unrelated. However,

So You Think You Can Dance 5 will air next summer, as Fox has renewed its top-rated summer series. The show's two episodes are in the top five among viewers 18 to 49, making the renewal unsurprising. In a press release, which notes those ratings, Fox executive Mike Darnell said, 'We're delighted to have DANCE back for a fifth season next year. FOX is very lucky to have television's preeminent performance competitions in AMERICAN IDOL and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, and it's no coincidence that creator and executive producer Simon Fuller and executive producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe have been a part of both these successes.' The fourth season concludes this week with two-hour episodes on both Wednesday and Thursday.Fox Trots Into season Five of Smash Series 'So You Think You Can Dance' [Fox]>> read the latest news about So You Think You Can Dance >> find more reality TV news and gossip at reality blurred

The Nashville Predators signed center Jerred Smithson to a two-year contract extension on Thursday. The contract, which runs through the 2010-11 season, will pay him