One is the loneliest number
04/10/08 12:30 PM
By ED BARK
The show won't go on.
CBS has sacked Secret Talents of the Stars after dismal ratings for Tuesday night's premiere. This means that former figure skater Sasha Cohen and country crooner Clint Black won't get to further test their respective skills as a contortionist and standup comic. They were the survivors, so to speak, of the show's first celebrity foursome.
The network is plugging in 48 Hours Mystery for the next two Tuesdays at 9 p.m. (central). New episodes of Shark, originally set for 8 p.m., will then move back an hour, beginning on April 29th and running through May 13th.
Reruns of The Unit, which is unlikely to return next season, get Shark's vacated 8 p.m. slot.
***In another CBS development, Dan Rather's multi-million dollar "Memogate" lawsuit against the network mostly has been thrown out of court by a New York State Supreme Court judge.
CBS crowed in a news release Thursday, saying it expected the suit's remaining "spurious claims" to be dismissed down the road because "there are no facts to support them."
Rather currently is anchoring the weekly Dan Rather Reports on Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban's HDNet.
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