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MTV will broadcast a 30-minute interview with Snoop Doggy Dogg--the rapper’s first sit-down interview since being acquitted of murder charges in Los Angeles last week--on Wednesday at 9:30 p.m., with rebroadcasts March 10. . . . Katie Couric returns to her co-anchoring duties on NBC’s “Today” show on Monday, after a two-month maternity leave. Couric gave birth to Caroline Couric Monahan on Jan. 5. . . . KNBC-TV Channel 4 entertainment reporter Garret Glaser has left the station to pursue national broadcast opportunities. . . . Actor Denzel Washington and singer-actress Whitney Houston have been tapped to host the 27th annual NAACP Image Awards ceremony, which makes its prime-time TV debut April 23 on Fox. . . . For the first time, viewers of Sunday’s Easter Seal Telethon on KTLA-TV Channel 5 will be able to make donations via the Internet, at https://www.boxtop.com/easterseals. . . . Arthur Bloom, the director of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” since its genesis in 1968, will receive the Directors Guild of America’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award in News Direction, at ceremonies in New York City tonight.