MTV has figured out what The City needs next season: fresh tramps. Whitney is hitting the town with two new friends-gone-wild, and they are being described as "vixens." Oh, how I wish they were actual female foxes. Preferably rabid.

Alec Baldwin has announced the date of his 30 Rock departure to Playboy (naturally), and it's in 2012. After that? I'm a Celebrity 5. (Just kidding.)

Want to know what number Katie Holmes will be doing on So You Think You Can Dance? Of course you do. It's Judy Garland's "Get Happy." It may air July 8th, for the 100th episode, or it may air sooner, because it's not really a secret anymore and why wait.

A triumvirate of vaguely geeky casting news: Rick Worthy (Battlestar Galactica) may join Heroes as Matt Parkman's new partner. Clayne Crawford (Jericho) will play Katee Sackhoff's ex on 24. And David O'Hara (Wanted) will play a kickass Duke on The Tudors.

Finally, Sarah Palin has accepted David Letterman's apology for the joke about her unnamed daughter, and our long national nightmare can end. Unfortunately, her supporters still want him fired, and are still idiots.

Speaking of jokes made in bad taste, Artie Lange has been banned from HBO after his blue performance on the premiere of Joe Buck Live. I'm still not quite sure what he, Paul Rudd and Jason Sudeikis were doing on a live sports show, or why it needed to be live in the first place, except to make this exact thing happen.

How do you make your reality show ratings go down? Make the disaster that is your life so public that every news outlet on Earth covers it, then don't include any of that drama on your show. Maybe if the show gets canceled, Jon and Kate will stop fighting and give their kids some water.

On the lighter side, I'm not watching Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, but somebody must be, because Showtime just renewed it for another seven episodes set to air next year. Good for her! If the show is as funny as Robin Hood: Men in Tights, then she deserves it.

Only Nixon could go to China, and only Stephen Colbert could go to Iraq, as part of "Operation Iraqi Stephen." Now, apparently only Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones (How I met Your Mother) can go to Iran. His man-in-the-protest reports, dubbed "Access of Evil," start next week.