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Show runner and executive producer Chip Jahannessen has left CBS' vampire drama Moonlight. This leaves Joel Silver and the rest of the staff without an official head writer for this season's last four episodes. The last new episode was January 18, with no word on when those final episodes will air.

According to Jericho's executive producer Carol Barbee, the show's future pretty much depends on how it faired this week. But, she says, if CBS cuts them loose she'll look for another home, "There were other people who were interested in us to begin with, and now, I think, with the whole nuts [fan] campaign, and also with the amazing reviews that we've gotten for these seven episodes, I feel like we have made this franchise more valuable to a cable network who would want to take us on as a niche market." SciFi Channel especially is a contender as they're already showing the reruns.

Rufus Sewell will play the lead in Jerry Bruckheimer's CBS pilot Eleveth Hour. Based on the limited British series which starred Patrick Stewart, it focuses on Jacob Hood, a science advisor to the government who, with his female bodyguard, saves people from the abuses of science. Mike Davis is scripting and Danny Cannon is directing.

Starting this month, NBC Universal will be streaming thirteen old shows on NBC.com, free with advertising. They are: The A-Team; Emergency; Night Gallery; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; Miami Vice; Battlestar Galactica (1978); Buck Rogers; TekWar; Swamp Thing; Tremors; Crow; Kojak; Simon & Simon.

BBC and iTunes have signed a deal for about ten shows, including Life on Mars, Robin Hood, Little Britain, The Catherine Tate Show, Ashes to Ashes, and The Mighty Boosh. Most episodes will be available at about $4.00 (US) or £1.89 for either PC or Mac, video iPods, iPhone, and Apple TV.

Warner Brothers has sold airing rights for Moonlight, Chuck, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to Germany' ProSiebenSat.1. The anticipated debut dates are Moonlight - June 2008, Chuck - Fall 2008, and 2009 for The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Yuu Watase's shojo manga Absolute Boyfriend is being turned into a live action TV series that will premiere on Japan's Fuji TV April 8. It's a romantic comedy about a young woman who accidently orders Night Tenjo, the newest model of "lover robots." Mokomichi Hayami plays Night, Saki Aibu plays the woman, and Hiro Mizushima will play the sleazy sorta ex/Night's rival (Or at least he was sleazy in the manga).