AP - Start the countdown clock on MTV's countdown era: "Total Request Live" will soon shut down after 10 years on the air.

Reuters - Pity the TV critic, whose cynicism peaks during Emmy season.

AP - George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, have agreed to live long and prosper together.

AP - The reporter who sat across from John McCain and Barack Obama for separate interviews that aired on NBC's "Today" show Friday was only 23.

AP - Britney Spears' second comeback is in full swing: She's due to release a new album in December, on her 27th birthday.

AP - Television's Mr. Big is going off-Broadway.

AP - Never mind all those questions about who will win the election: The more pressing concern for many viewers is whether Tina Fey will return to play Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live."

AP - FX's genre-bending crime thriller, "The Shield," closes its seventh and final season in November, and the fate of Michael Chiklis' hard-bitten Vic Mackey and his corrupt Los Angeles police strike team remain under as much cover as their typically unorthodox detective work.

AP - Friendly ghosts from television's past will bring their ethereal charm to the 60th Emmy Awards.

AP - The reporter who sat across from John McCain and Barack Obama for separate interviews that aired on NBC's "Today" show Friday was only 23.