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Jon Stewart started off with some joke about auctions. It was a reference to an eBay comment from the pre-show warm-up, so the audience was pretty excited to hear it. I suppose it was nice that he began with a light joke because what came next was absolutely horrifying. They rolled a clip of Connie Chung's farewell from Weekends with Maury and Ohmigod What Have They Done with Connie Chung?! It was... disturbing, to say the least. If you really feel like watching the mess that is Chung rolling around on a piano, YouTube has video. The pianist looked too busy feigning enjoyment to actually play the piano.

Okay, show of hands from those people who are absolutely, totally surprised that Weekends with Maury and Connie is being canceled by MSNBC. No one, huh? Well, that's because you are a such a smart audience.

In a move that everyone saw coming from several miles away, except perhaps Maury Povich and Connie Chung, the cable news network has canceled the show, which premiered on January 7th of this year to much fanfare. After the premiere, the audience never re-materialized, despite the fact that the show aired twice on both Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, Povich was slapped with a sexual harassment suit from a producer of his syndicated talk show, which probably didn't help his chances of renewal over at MSNBC.

The last Weekends with Maury and Connie will air this upcoming Saturday at 10am. On Sunday, with plenty of free time on his hands, Maury will begin his task of making sure every single man and boy has a DNA test to prove that he is the father of their own child.

No, you haven't tuned into the alternate universe version of TV Squad. What you are seeing here is true blue. According to Extra, Rosie O'Donnell has been named as the replacement for Meredith Riviera on ABC's The View. Meredith is replacing Katie Couric on NBC's Today show when Katie moves to anchor the CBS Evening News this summer. Rosie was on the short list of candidates that included Connie Chung, Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond and current CNN American Morning anchor Soledad O'Brien.

ABC will make the official announcement on Friday, April 28th. From 1996-2001 O'Donnell hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show that was a critical and popular success. She is currently executive producer of The Big Gay Show, a comedy sketch show that will appear on the Logo network.

[via Zap2It -- thanks Anthony!]

A producer on Maury Povich's daytime talk show has filed a $100 million lawsuit against him, NBC Universal and other staff members on the show. The court papers say that not only was she forced to watch porno movies, suffer sexual remarks, and expose her body in undercover assignments, she was also forced to endure the details of another staff member's affair with Povich.

The defendants deny all charges. The woman says she is in therapy because of what happened to her. Wow, just add some screaming and a blood test, and it's like an episode of the show.