The Food Network recently announced that it plans to launch a sister/spinoff network called the Cooking Channel, which makes sense since viewers can't find many actual cooking shows on the regular old Food Network these days, especially in primetime. In fact, this is such a good idea that it prompted us to wonder why other networks can't also have their own spinoffs, narrowly focusing on a particular type of programming.

Tags: Bravo, Cartoon Network, comedy Central, MTV, National Geographic, TLC, VH1

Eight is the magic number in today's TV news.

Tags: comedy Central, Elizabeth Perkins, Emeril Lagasse, Entourage, Greys anatomy, James Gandolfini, The Sopranos, Toddlers & Tiaras, Weeds

Billy Ray Cyrus will make a guest appearance on The View. This is a fantastic blood bath waiting to go down...

Tags: 30 Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus, Comedy Central, Eddie Cibrian, Eric Winter, Evil Genius, Good Christian Bitches, Haven, Jason Priestly, Marisol Nichols, playboy, Salman Rushdie, Showtime, Syfy, The View, Tom Sizemore, Weekends at Bellevue

When we heard that Tosh.0 had surpassed The Daily Show and The Colbert Report in ratings, we weren't surprised -- Daniel Tosh's take on internet videos is hysterically funny, especially when he gets together with the subjects of the more embarrassing videos for the segment called "Web Redemption." While he's met with the stars of some great videos so far -- David After Dentist, the Lightning Bolt LARPer, the Crystal Light Dancers -- there are still plenty of famous ones we'd like to see him investigate. Here's our highly incomplete list.

Tags: Comedy Central, Tosh.0, Web Redemption

A movie star jumps to TV, a TV star jumps to a different show, a former child star jumps ship and ski jumps get their own network. It's today's TWoP news! ...After the jump, of course.

Tags: Brady Bunch, Comedy Central, Jon Heder, Michael Jackson, Oprah, Project Runway, The Mentalist, Will Ferrell

With the lull in new shows and exciting TV drama this summer, many shows are getting renewed and making an appearance with a new season come fall. Find out which shows will make their way back to the screen -- even Futurama, a show once cancelled, is also making a comeback.

Tags: Comedy Central, desperate housewives, Futurama, Ghost Whisperer, Kendra Wilkinson, Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, one tree hill, Showtime

If you are a Time Warner Cable customer and were planning on watching their Miley-filled New Year's Eve special (and I sincerely hope it was either because you wanted to mock it, or because you have a tween in your house that you wanted to appease) you may be out of luck. At 12:01 am, Time Warner's deal with Viacom goes kaput, and talks aren't looking so good. There's like money and that kind of crap involved (Variety has the specifics) but basically it comes down to the customers getting screwed over. Happy New Year!

Tags: Comedy Central, miley cyrus, MTV, Nickelodeon, time warner cable, VH1, viacom

Growing up in the 1980s, I didn't watch a lot of traditional "holiday specials." No special guests coming over, no singing songs by the fire, nothing like that -- just Charlie Brown, the Grinch and little Ralphie for me. So all I know about the golden age of holiday specials is what I've seen parodied on Saturday Night Live ("I'm Gumby, dammit!"). But from what I've seen, Stephen Colbert really nailed it in A Colbert Christmas, his Comedy Central Christmas special, which aired last night, although I can only imagine that his was a million times funnier, and that this time the humor was intentional. I would even go out on a limb and call it a new holiday staple, like A Christmas Story, although I don't know if I'd want it to play 24 hours in a row. Here are the five funniest moments from last night's airing.

Tags: A Colbert Christmas, Comedy Central, Elvis Costello, Feist, holiday special, John Legend, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert