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Today, on TV Squad Daily: Happy New Year! Coming soon in 2008:

• Remember Tom Green? He's getting his own late night talk show.
  
• American Gladiators premieres in January, too.

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NBC has announced that they are searching for a new national correspondent for the Tonight Show. Viewers who think they have what it takes to be Jay's field reporter are encouraged to send video or DVD auditions to the show. Submissions will be reviewed by a team of Tonight Show producers and writers. And hey, if you are just too busy this week to get to making your video, no worries. According to NBC, this is not a contest and the submission period does not close.

The winner, or winners, will join the long list of roving reporters for the Tonight Show, which includes Howie Mandel, Kevin Smith, Mo Rocca, Ross the Intern, and Tom Green, among others. More information on the rules for submissions, as well as some tips on making your video, can be found on the Tonight Show website.

I say they combine this with Who Wants To Be A Superhero? and send Lumeria and Major Victory to interview some nutters at a U.F.O. convention.

Tom Green may be on to something. He just got his own weekly call-in show online. Considering all the video that people are watching on the internet these days, it sounds like a damn good idea. Green will host his show from his own living room on TVMania.com, a Denver-based website, and also on TomGreen.com. It'll be mostly call-in and it sounds like he'll also play some of the goofy video bits he's been posting to his website. As for guests? Tom doesn't think so, saying, "I doubt we'll get anybody good. It's in my living room. How rinky dink is that?"

Tom is going back to his roots, in a way. He started out on cable access television before getting his own show on MTV, of which I was a huge fan (Tom Green+College Students=Ratings). Internet video is the new cable access, isn't it? ANYONE can have a show online. And it's completely uncensored. Tom's new show launches on June 15.

It's hard to imagine how someone could get injured while fishing, other than getting a hook in the mouth. But, Tom Green managed to take one nightmare of a fishing trip. The former MTV host and roving reporter for The Tonight Show was fishing on a rocky outcrop in Costa Rica when a huge wave hit him. It pulled him into the ocean and then slammed him back against the rocks. On his website, Green described hitting the wave as "leaning into a freight train". And, when he finally was able to stand, he felt his ribs "clattering" in his chest. *Shudder*

Green ended up breaking two ribs and is currently recovering at his vacation home in Costa Rica.