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• Best Week Ever picks the 10 Top Chef contestants with the best faux-hawks (or foie-hawks).
• Looks like Katie Couric is going to get a chance to moderate a debate after all.
• Tucker Carlson says goodbye.
• An interview with Alton Brown.
• Quite possibly the greatest on-air local reporter/anchor feud ever!
• A Brothers & Sisters star is heading over to Moonlight.
• Dawn Wells wants to clear up those rumors about her marijuana arrest.
• Are there less fade-ins and fade-outs than there used to be on TV shows?

Devoted TV fans are famous for getting together to try and save their favorite show. Jericho fans sent tons of nuts to CBS, and Arrested Development fans created online petitions and web sites (as fans of other cancelled shows have done). Now fans of MSNBC's Tucker Carlson have set up the web site SaveTucker.org in order to get the cable news channel to change their mind about canceling his evening show. OK, they haven't actually come out and said that he's gone, but it doesn't look good. Carlson himself recently hinted at his show's low ratings on the air, which didn't please the execs at MSNBC.

I've never found Tucker Carlson to be that great of a host. Besides, isn't he too busy appearing on dancing celebrity shows and game shows? It will be interesting to see what the fans do to save his show. Maybe send bowties to MSNBC? Does he still wear bowties?

What's happening on other blogs via the interweb.

• We all know what happened to Jerry Seinfeld after his show ended, but what happened to Man Hands, The Drake, Susan Ross, and Crazy Joe Divola?
• Tim Goodman has a podcast interview with David Duchovny.
• With this writers strike, could the Heroes season finale actually air in December?
• Don't worry, High School Musical fans: Vanessa Hudgens is going to be in Part 3.
• Here's a new way advertisers are trying to sneak past all you commercial-skippers. Actually an old way.
• MSNBC isn't happy with something Tucker Carlson said on his show.

• Do you remember the show Big Wave Dave's?
• Best Week Ever gives us The Reverse Savage.
• A lot of people want Tucker Carlson to be fired.
• More nasty news about Andy Dick.
• Singer Chris Brown takes his jacket off at The Today Show, causes a riot.
• Did you know Hugh Laurie was almost picked to host the Emmys?
• BuddyTV has some interesting info about the Jericho season one DVD set.

Back in April, Joel told you about the game show pilot that Tucker Carlson was filming for CBS. Back then it was titled Who Do You Trust?, which is the same name of the game show Johnny Carson had in the 1950s. I'm not sure why, but the title has been changed to Do You Trust Me? The network has ordered six episodes of the game show.

This isn't the only game show CBS has this fall. They also have Drew Carey's Power of 10.

There are many swears that have started to make their way on to television, and I don't mean just HBO and Showtime. I've heard "shit" and "asshole" sprinkled here and there.

But there's still one word that's a no-no, and that's the famous four letter word that begins with the letter "F." It's banned on network television, and I think even on cable you can only get away with it so many times during one show. In the movies there are limits to the number of times it is used and the context (exclamation or verb?).

After the jump are the top ten videos of the word being used on live television. This Digg post lists the Richard Simmons clip as number one, but that's not accurate because they're outtakes, not live segments. Still funny though!

HarperCollins, ABC, and BBC Worldwide are getting together to create a book you've all been waiting for: a fitness guide based on the hit show Dancing with the Stars.

According to the press release, the book "will reveal for the first time how some of the stars and dancers got into the best shape of their lives. Included will be healthy recipes and simple dance moves as well as never before seen pictures and quotes from the stars and their partners."

Yeah, because I've always wondered how Tucker Carlson stays in such great shape.

FTVLive is reporting that there are rumors going around that two MSNBC personalities, Tucker Carlson and Rita Cosby, are being let go from the network. As we've told you earlier, NBC has laid off 700 people and MSNBC is going through a massive restructuring and Carlson and Cosby might be part of those changes (there are also reports that Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews will be going over to CNBC and MSNBC will go to an all documentary and taped feature format).

But wait! Carlson says it's not true, and so does MSNBC chief Dan Abrams.

Regardless of whether they're gone or not, I still think that making CNBC the news station for NBC is a good idea, if for one reason: they'll get out from under that "MS" in MSNBC and become their own news entity. There were rumors a year or so ago that NBC was going to end its association with Microsoft, but that hasn't happened yet. Maybe this could be the first step to rebranding. What does CNBC stand for anyway? Isn't it something like Cable NBC? If that's the case, the change makes sense.

[via TV Newser]