TLC parts ways with Miss American pageant

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“Hot in Cleveland”: A Quick Takes item in Tuesday’s Calendar about TV Land ordering a sitcom called “Hot in Cleveland” said that Valerie Bertinelli had starred in “One Life to Live.” She starred in “One Day at a Time.” —

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No TLC for pageant

TLC has chosen not to renew its television contract with the Miss America pageant, ending the event’s run on the cable network after three years.

TLC declined to say Monday why it was cutting ties with the show, which attracted 4.5 million viewers in January. That was the best showing for the pageant ever on cable but less than half the audience it drew the last time it was on one of the major broadcast networks, in 2004.

Sam Haskell, chairman of the Miss America Organization, said he was in discussions with other outlets about airing the pageant.

-- associated press A-bomb tale’s printing halted

Publication has been halted for a disputed book about the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.

Charles Pellegrino’s “The Last Train From Hiroshima” had received strong reviews and had been optioned for a possible film by “Avatar” director James Cameron. But publisher Henry Holt and Co. said Monday that Pellegrino “was not able to answer” several concerns, including whether two men mentioned in the text actually existed.

“It is with deep regret that Henry Holt and Co. announces that we will not print, correct or ship copies of Charles Pellegrino’s ‘The Last Train From Hiroshima,’ ” the publisher said.

Doubts were first raised about the book a week ago after Pellegrino acknowledged that one of his interview subjects had falsely claimed to be on one of the planes accompanying the Enola Gay, from which an atom bomb was dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.

-- associated press TV Land backs original sitcom

TV Land, the cable channel that specializes in reruns of classic (and some not-so-classic) network series, is getting into the first-run producing game with a sitcom that will star three women with experience in the kinds of comedies that end up on TV Land.

Scheduled to premiere in June, “Hot in Cleveland” is a multi-camera comedy about three eccentric best friends from Los Angeles who, by a quirk of fate, set up housekeeping under the same roof in the Ohio city.

It stars Valerie Bertinelli (“One Life to Live”), Jane Leeves (“Frasier”) and Wendie Malick (“Just Shoot Me”).

-- staff and wire reports L.A. date set for ‘Glee’ tour

The concert tour of Fox’s “Glee” will play the Gibson Amphitheatre in L.A. on May 20 and 21, organizers said Monday.

Most of the cast members from the hit television show have signed on to appear in the stage production, including Broadway star Lea Michele, who plays the overly eager high school student Rachel Berry. But two of the series’ teachers -- Matthew Morrison, who plays the glee club instructor, and Jane Lynch, the cheerleading coach -- are not part of the lineup.

Tickets go on sale March 13.

-- David Ng New ‘Dancing’ lineup named

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek, Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger and former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson were among the celebrities announced by ABC as competitors in the new season of “Dancing With the Stars” that begins March 22.

Others vying for the Mirrorball trophy include Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals, former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Shannen Doherty and Kate Gosselin, the mother of eight who was on the reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”

-- from a times staff writer Public station turns to pop

KCSN-FM (88.5), the public radio station based at Cal State Northridge, changed formats Monday, dropping classical music on weekdays in favor of a pop/rock mix featuring artists such as Lucinda Williams, John Mayer, Joan Osborne, the Police and Kings of Leon.

Weekends will still play host to programs devoted to Americana, folk, bluegrass and the Beatles, but classical music has migrated to KCSN’s digital channel and one of its websites, KCSNClassical.org.

Karen Kearns, KCSN interim general manager and associate dean of the university’s Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication, said the change was made in the belief that what the radio industry calls adult album alternative is “the best public radio format to reach the broadest audience.”

-- Lee Margulies