Jimmy Fallon to Counter Stephen Colbert’s Debut Week With 5 Nights of Justin Bieber

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Jimmy Fallon to counter Stephen Colbert’s debut week with 5 nights of Justin Bieber

Bieber will actually appear on The Tonight Show six times over the next two weeks. Bieber will appear on Fallon as a guest on Wednesday of next week. He’ll then return on Labor Day Monday, followed by appearances the rest of the week. PLUS: Fallon to guest on Ellen’s premiere week.


Christina Applegate returning to Fox to appear on The Grinder

Applegate will return to Fox for the first time since Married with Children, playing Rob Lowe’s ex.


A TV drama titled Cuba is in the works

The network-less drama Cuba plans to shoot on-location in Havana, revolving around an “international real estate mogul who returns with his family to the place of his childhood to restore a hotel in hope of capitalizing on Cuba’s emerging tourism business.”


VMA boss on Miley Cyrus: “We have a delay so we’re prepared for her”

“We have [planned] a lot of wide camera shots and a lot of audience reaction shows,” says co-executive producer Van Toffler.


Stephen Colbert isn’t pleased with his serious-looking Time magazine cover

The Late Show host has sent out a series of tweets today showing the cover, with the hashtag “#ISwearitsAComedyShow.”


HBO’s Vice releases the trailer for President Obama’s prison visit

Vice cameras followed the president as he visited an Oklahoma federal prison, filmed as part of a special episode titled Fixing the System.


Limitless
reunites Dexter stars

Jennifer Carpenter will be reunited with Desmond Harrington when he guests as an FBI special agent.


Patrick Stewart’s Blunt Talk debuts to solid numbers

With DVR viewers accounted for, the cable news satire raked in 1.5 million viewers.


Grandfathered
to hook John Stamos up with JoAnna Garcia Swisher

She’ll guest on one episode of the Fox comedy.