George Lopez

Comedienne and Curb Your Enthusiasm regular Wanda Sykes is heading to late night. 

The Emmy-winning actress will host a new Saturday late-night talk show on Fox beginning later this year.

She will be joining George Lopez in the ranks of newbie late night talk show hosts.  

His talk show debuts on TBS in November.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

We were invited (thank you, Than) to attend Monday night’s American Cinematheque Honors as they bestowed their 23rd annual prize on Samuel L. Jackson at the Beverly Hilton.

The show, which will be broadcast on AMC December 9th, offered the usual: speeches filled with platitudes followed by far more engaging montages of Jackson’s work (though it was noticeably heavy on Pulp Fiction and The Man). But here’s a peek at some of the more interesting events of Monday’s taping, most of which will have to be heavily bleeped when it airs.

Late night television is getting a lot less interesting.

We’re gonna have to deal with Jimmy Fallon taking over for Conan O’Brien next May (blech) and now comedian George Lopez is primed to host his own late-night talk show which has yet to find a network home.

Formerly, Lopez starred in the Sandra Bullock-produced The George Lopez Show and even though the sitcom was cancelled in 2007 after a five-year run (like Two and a Half Men, we don't get it), it’s been a huge success in syndication.

Swing Vote is like that one annoying friend who always needs rides to the airport or wants to borrow money. It doesn’t know when to stop asking for favors from the audience, requiring you to suspend your disbelief for two exhaustively long hours and try to believe that an American presidential election could be decided by one vote. Oooookay. The film is all glossy Americana, all the time, even trying to give a trailer park the Michael Bay treatment, making it look sexy, golden and wind blown.