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When Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly met the press Sunday, his general answer to questions about the “high-class problem” of having plenty of successful shows is that he hasn’t made a decision on the futures of Terra Nova, House, Fringe or retaining Steve Jones as host of The X Factor. But the subtext seemed to be: Don’t hold your breath awaiting a positive outcome.

Seacrest is not signed beyond this season of the Fox hit and is also involved in talks with corporate owners of NBC Universal, where he has a contract at E! Entertainment. There have been several reports that NBC is considering Seacrest as a potential replacement if Matt Lauer decides to leave the Today show.

Saturday’s 90-minute cartoon block would begin at 11 p.m. ET. The network said Sunday that the new effort will be led by Nick Weidenfeld, the former head of program development for the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim series.

Fox’s summer staple So You Think You Can Dance, which was renewed for a ninth season in October, will undergo a format change, scaling down from two shows a week to one.

Starting in 2014, CBS, Fox and NBC will spend a combined average of about $3 billion a year — more than 50% higher than their current deals.

Softening ratings and grumbling over the Fox series’ third-season direction are raising questions about its future.

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced Friday night that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Big Four broadcast networks on a new network TV contract, ocvering all network programming except scripted primetime shows..

The National Football League is close to inking an eight-year extension of three media-rights deals that should earn it a total of about $3.2 billion a year from its broadcast partners, a 60% increase over its prior contract, according to people with knowledge of the talks.

The singing competition TV show The X Factor has about half the viewers of American Idol, but it has lifted Fox’s ratings and it appeals to a comparatively younger audience.

Fox won yet another Thursday on an evening where CBS was in repeats and ABC showed holiday specials. Fox averaged a 3.0 adults 18-49 rating and 8 share, 43% ahead of No. 2 ABC at 2.1/9. Fox’s The X Factor was the night’s highest-rated show with a 3.1 rating, up 19% over last week’s results episode (which aired on Wednesday due to Thanksgiving). It was the second straight night that Factor ranked No. 1 for the evening.

The network sets premiere dates for series including American Idol, Alcatraz, The Finder, Touch, Kitchen Nightmares, Breaking In and Napoleon Dynamite.

Fox’s new sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter got poor reviews but OK ratings for last night’s series premiere. Daughter averaged a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating, airing at 9:30 p.m. behind a 90-minute edition of The X Factor. Daughter, about a pair of single moms raising two bratty teen girls, retained 76% of its lead-in from Factor, which averaged a 3.7, rebounding from last week’s series low when it aired on Tuesday and Wednesday instead of Wednesday and Thursday.

For just the second time in network history, Fox won the November sweeps among adults 18-49, holding a slight edge over CBS. But in the other two major categories, it was CBS that posted big victories.

Through nine weeks of the new season — and heading into the holiday season lull of repeats and specials — Fox is still the leading network among key 18-49 viewers. The network, which has boosted its fall fortunes with new shows New Girl and The X Factor, is averaging a Nielsen 3.0 rating among 18-49 viewers (3.89 million),  from Sept. 19 through Nov. 20.

For the third time this fall, the Fox network will bamboozle couch potatoes with a misdirection play that marries an NFL game with a tape-delayed soccer match from the English Premier League.

Every hit show starts with an exec saying yes to a pitch, and during the past few months, networks and studios have bought hundreds of promising projects, from original ideas like “mechanical-human dramas” to remakes of classics like The Munsters and The Rifleman. THR parses the loglines and pilot commitments to analyze what the networks are buying.

The broadcaster is near a deal that will let it stream current Warner Bros. programs on websites and mobile devices. The terms with Fox are similar to a deal announced yesterday by Warner Bros. Television and Walt Disney Co.’s ABC.

Five weeks into the TV season, Fox has made the biggest gains as well as leading all broadcast networks among key viewing metrics that advertisers value most: the Nielsen C3 rating among 18-49 viewers.

ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice were the only primetime offerings to improve in the ratings on Thursday, when the majority of broadcast telecasts saw dips. Even so, Fox ended up winning the night with the steadiness of The X Factor  and Bones.

For the first time this season, The X Factor went from two hours to one, but it was still enough to lift Fox to another Thursday night win. The network just barely held off CBS last night, the second Thursday of the November sweeps, averaging a 3.4 adults 18-49 rating and 9 share in primetime, compared to CBS’s 3.3/9.

While media buyers and planners agree that Fox will win the fall, it is not the network that has impressed them the most to start the season. That distinction belongs to the remarkably steady CBS.

AFTRA has set a Nov. 7 start date for negotiations with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox on a new Network Television Code contract. It’s the biggest contract the American Federation of TV and Radio Artist has, covering $250 million a year in employee earnings.

Fox’s The X Factor returned to its regular Wednesday timeslot last night after being preempted several weeks for postseason baseball and lifted the network to a win on an evening when ABC and CBS also had strong schedules. Factor averaged a 3.9 adults 18-49 rating from 8 to 10 p.m., down from a 4.4 for its most recent episode last week on Tuesday.

Fox has given the go-ahead on a sophomore season of the Simon Cowell reality competition series.

New Girl suffered a baseball hangover last night. The hit new show’s first episode in four weeks, after being preempted by Major League Baseball playoffs, was well off from its most recent outing, though it still won its timeslot. Girl averaged a series-low 3.5 adults 18-49 rating at 9 p.m., down 19% from its previous episode on Oct. 4, which averaged a 4.3.

It looks like Fox has officially pulled the plug on sketch comedy series In The Flow With Affion Crockett after a low-rated summer run.

Fox shows confidence in its animated series ahead of its second season premiere, bringing the total count to 22 episodes.

The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode drew its usual strong ratings, but they didn’t carry over to new lead-out Allen Gregory. Gregory averaged a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating at 8:30 p.m. last night, losing 40% of Simpsons‘ 4.0 rating. The new animated show about a child genius was down 23 percent from the show that followed last year’s “Treehouse” episode, The Cleveland Show, which averaged a 3.1 last fall.

Fox is bringing back its groundbreaking 1990s sketch comedy series In Living Color with the series’ creator and star, Keenen Ivory Wayans, on board as host and executive producer.

One of the most exciting games in World Series history, which saw the St. Louis Cardinals earn an improbable extra-innings win over the Texas Rangers to force a game seven, also drew the biggest ratings of the series. Fox dominated the other networks last night with game six of the series. The network averaged a 5.8 adults 18-49 rating in primetime, up 53% over Monday’s game five overnight rating.

Fox flexed some muscle last night with a dominant win by new reality show The X Factor, which cut the number of contestants to 12. Factor averaged a 4.3 rating from 8 to 10:30 p.m., with its first live show of the season. That was up 13% from last week’s episode, which also aired on Tuesday, and marked the show’s best rating since its premiere last month.

Three of the first four World Series games between Texas and St. Louis finished among the 10 most popular programs for the week. The only exception was Saturday’s third game, a Cardinals blowout that coincided with the night many of Fox’s young viewers are out and away from the TV.

A full-page ad in Sunday’s L.A. Times warns Trojans, Bruins and Kings fans their teams could soon be off the air. Similar ads in other markets with NFL teams warned fans that they could soon be without pro football.

A FIFA official says Fox has won the U.S. English-language television rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, with the Spanish-language rights going to Telemundo.