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After 13 seasons and 253 episodes, Fox's King of the Hill is serving up a Southern-style send-off.

Just over 12 years ago, those talented guys who brought you MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head (Mike Judge and Greg Daniels) ventured into the tiny town of Arlen, Texas, and viewers have tuned in ever since.

Not since the days of Seinfeld has a show about nothing seen such success. With two Emmys under its belt, the title of second longest-running animated series in history—damn those Simpsons—and more celeb guest stars than we can begin to count—Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp, to name a few—King of the Hill can bow out with its head held high.

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Forget Jon and Kate and their eight. Another matriarch and her brood are heading to prime time.

Fox has inked a deal to air a two-hour special on Nadya Suleman, her octuplets and the rest of her family, including her six other children. Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage is set to fill the So You Think You Can Dance schedule void on Aug. 19, the network announced today.

The network promises plenty of intimate moments, interviews and family reactions culled from footage taken over the past seven months by Radar Online. The release vows to show "emotional struggles, physical complications and financial burdens."

Honestly, does TV get more fun than that?!

Even the head of Fox's reality-TV division, Mike Darnell, understands the appeal. "It's a little bit of a trainwreck, and it's really entertaining to watch," he told the Hollywood Reporter.

At least we get a little Octomom. The Brits are getting an entire series.

(Originally published on August 10, 2009 at 12:58 p.m. PT)

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Who needs eight kids when you can take home 11 Teen Choice Awards?

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For So You Think You Can Dance judge Nigel Lythgoe, there is no dancing around the issue.

After defending his allegedly homophobic remarks via Twitter on Friday, Lythgoe has officially issued an apology at the urging of gay rights group GLAAD.

"I sincerely regret the fact that I have upset people with the poor word choices and comments I made both during the taping of the So You Think You Can Dance audition and on my personal status update," said Lythgoe. "I am not homophobic and it was extremely upsetting for me to be classed as such."

The "I'm sorry" comes as the result of comments made by the judge during an audition by same-sex dance partners Misha Belfer and Mitchel Kibel, as well as his continuing justification of his actions online the following day...

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At least one Florida town is unloading the Osbournes: Reloaded.

After watching a six-minute preview, the Fox affiliate in Panama City has decided the variety show featuring Ozzy Osbourne and family was inappropriate in its early time slot.

The pilot is set to air in the panhandle burg at 8:20 CT tonight, immediately following American Idol. The strange start time was planned by the network in hopes of maintaining the Idol viewers.

"I just felt it was not keeping with community standards," David Cavileer, general manager of the Fox affiliate, told the local News Herald. He also claimed the show was "unsuitable and contrary to the public interest" and "more of an MTV thing."

"Osbournes: Reloaded was thoroughly vetted by our Standards and Practices department to ensure it was appropriate for broadcast during the scheduled time period," network spokesman Todd Adair told E! News. "If any network affiliate feels the programming may be inappropriate for its individual market, however, it has the right to preempt the program."

Instead of airing the reality family showcase, whose sketches include a Hills parody costarring Lauren Conrad, Cavileer will be airing an episode of The Simpsons. This is reportedly the first time in his five years in the position that he has exercised this right.

Fox's doctors are back in the house.

House, Bones and two of the network's sitcoms have resumed production and will close out the strike-afflicted season with new episodes, Fox announced Tuesday.

House, Fox's third biggest show behind American Idol and upstart The Moment of Truth, is to return with fresh medical drama starting Apr. 28.

Bones, Fox's sturdy forensic study, is due back Apr. 14.

The comedies Back to You and 'Til Death are scheduled to begin their spring runs Apr. 16.

There was no word on how many new episodes each of the four shows will crank out.

Fox said 24 and three of its Sunday-night animated comedies, The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad, were also back in production following last week's end to the protracted Hollywood writers' strike.

But it said 24, as earlier reported, wouldn't clock in for its seventh season until next January. And it referred to the animated shows' new wares as "future episodes," making it sound as if those, too, won't be viewed until the dawn of the 2008-09 season. (Cartoon series require months more lead time to produce.)

There was no mention in the network release of King of the Hill, Fox's other Sunday night 'toon. But the network said all four animated series will air a mix of repeats and pre-strike completed new episodes through the end of the season, save Family Guy.

As for King of the Hill, the network said it's finishing out its season, and that no new episodes have yet been ordered.

Also absent from Fox's back-to-work decree: the low-rated freshman cop show K-Ville; the sputtering Terminator spinoff, The Sarah Connor Chronicles; and the long-running Prison Break, which wrapped its strike-shortened season Monday night. Although networks never officially cancel anything, K-Ville has been considered pretty much canceled for months.

With Monday's announcement, Fox becomes the third of the big four networks to unveil its initial poststrike plans. ABC, which last week gave a glimpse at its fall schedule, has yet to announce spring return dates for the likes of Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and more.

For fans of Bones, Fox's news is likely most welcome. That drama aired its last original prestrike episode all the way back in November.

Back to You and 'Til Death ran out of stock, too, but Fox held some episodes to air this month and next. The network, likewise, hoarded House, saving one of its new hours for Super Bowl Sunday.