Los Angeles -- NBC is canceling its U.S. television programs "Lipstick Jungle" and "My Own Worst Enemy," sources told EW.com.
The network declined to comment about the report, the entertainment magazine said on its Web site.
However, EW.com also said the word from multiple insiders is that no new episodes of the shows have been ordered because NBC isn't happy with the ratings they have been racking up.
Based on Candace Bushnell's book of the same name, "Lipstick Jungle" is an hourlong show about a group of high-powered female friends living and working in New York. It stars Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price and is in its second season.
The freshman drama "My Own Worst Enemy" stars Christian Slater as a suburban husband and father who realizes he has been living a double life as a secret agent when a chip implanted in him to help him keep his personalities separate malfunctions.
Los Angeles -- Kim Kardashian, Kendra Wilkinson, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have signed up for guest spots on "How I Met Your Mother," CBS announced Thursday.
The episode is in production and expected to air in January, the network said, adding that the reality television personalities will be playing magazine cover versions of themselves as Marshall (Jason Segel) "desperately searches for a place to read a magazine while at the office."
Kardashian, Wilkinson, Montag and Pratt will "taunt and tease Marshall from the confines of his current copy of Them Weekly," CBS said.
The sit-com co-stars Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders.
Universal City, Calif. -- Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews have agreed to lend their voices to characters in Hollywood's animated movie "Despicable Me."
Universal Pictures Thursday announced the principal voice talent for its inaugural 3-D CGI feature -- the studio's first film from animation producer Chris Meledandri, who worked on the "Ice Age" franchise, "Robots" and "Horton Hears a Who!"
Meledandri will produce the movie through his new Universal Pictures-based family-entertainment production company, Illumination Entertainment, which has a multi-picture deal to deliver live-action and animated all-audience films for the Universal slate, the movie studio said.
Also set to lend their voices to characters in "Despicable Me" are Kristen Wiig, Will Arnett, Jemaine Clement and Jack McBrayer.
New York -- U.S. comedians Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins have signed on to be featured players on "Saturday Night Live," NBC said Thursday.
"NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' has its own post-election 'transition team' gearing up as the show begins adding new faces Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins as featured players," the network said in a release. "They will begin appearing on the show this weekend."
Elliott is a Wilton, Conn., native who previously performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater -- the improv/sketch comedy theater co-founded by "SNL" alum Amy Poehler. Elliott also trained with the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles.
Watkins was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and raised in Boston, Mass. She comes to "SNL" from the mainstage company of the Groundlings Theater where distinguished former "SNL" cast members such as Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Laraine Newman and Kristen Wiig got their starts, NBC said.
Los Angeles -- Angelina Jolie's publicist says the Hollywood actress and mother of six is not pregnant again, contrary to a report claiming she is.
"This is not true," Jolie's representative Geyer Kosinski told Usmagazine.com regarding an In Touch magazine story stating the 32-year-old actress and her partner Brad Pitt are expecting again.
The couple are the biological parents of 3-month-old twins and a 2-year-old daughter. They also have three adopted children.
New York -- U.S. recording artists Fergie and Kellie Pickler will appear on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2009," ABC said.
Hip-hop star Fergie is to perform and act as host of the show's West Coast party, while country music singer Pickler has agreed to be a Times Square correspondent, the network said.
This is the 37th consecutive year Clark has helped ring in the new year on television. The show is to begin on ABC at 10 p.m. ET Dec. 31.
"New Year's Eve with Dick and Ryan is a time-honored tradition and all of us at dcp and ABC are delighted that Fergie will once again host our West Coast event and thrilled that Kellie Pickler will be amidst the revelry and party-goers at Times Square," Orly Adelson, president of dick clark productions, said in a statement.
New York -- New York's Roundabout Theatre Company says Mary-Louise Parker will star in its new Broadway production of "Hedda Gabler."
Parker, who is best known for her roles on TV's "Weeds" and "The West Wing," will play the title role in "Gabler." This production marks Parker's return to Broadway following her 2004 Tony-nominated performance in "Reckless." She previously won a Tony Award for her work in "Proof."
Also slated to star in Christopher Shinn's new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's stage drama are Michael Cerveris, Paul Sparks, Peter Stormare, Lois Markle, Ana Reeder and Helen Carey.
Preview performances are to begin Jan. 6 at the American Airlines Theatre, with an opening night planned for Jan. 25. The Roundabout said this will be a limited engagement running through March 29.
New York -- The studio version of Bruce Springsteen's new song "Working on a Dream" will have its world premiere on "NBC Sunday Night Football," the network said.
The song will be set to NFL highlights and played at halftime during Sunday's game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins.
It was previously announced Springsteen and the E Street Band are to perform in the "Bridgestone Super Bowl XLIII Halftime Show" on NBC at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Feb. 1.
More than 148 million viewers in the United States watched last year's halftime show, NBC noted.
Nashville -- Kenny Chesney was named entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association's awards show in Nashville Wednesday night.
This marks the fourth time Chesney has earned the honor.
George Strait's song "I Saw God Today" won the prize for single of the year and his CD "Troubadour" was declared album of the year.
The awards show's co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley took home the prizes for female and male vocalist of the year respectively, while Lady Antebellum was honored with the new artist of the year title, Rascal Flatts was declared the vocal group of the year and Sugarland nabbed the vocal duo of the year gong.
"Stay," written by Jennifer Nettles, won the award for song of the year, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's "Gone Gone Gone" was named the musical event of the year.
Sherman Oaks, Calif. -- A woman who auditioned for Paula Abdul's singing competition show "American Idol" was found dead in a car near Abdul's California home, police said.
The body of 30-year-old Paula Goodspeed, who tried out for the series by singing "Proud Mary," was discovered Tuesday evening in a car parked near Abdul's home in Sherman Oaks, the Los Angeles Times said.
"We are investigating the case as a possible suicide," Ed Winter, a spokesman for the coroner's office, told the newspaper.
The cause of Goodspeed's death will not be determined until the results of toxicology tests come back, Winter added.
