Fox News has not announced a permanent replacement for Glenn Beck, but on Monday it will start a summer series that will serve as a temporary fill-in for Beck's 5 p.m. slot.
The new series, "The Five," will be a roundtable show with a rotating cast of five Fox News personalities and guests discussing issues. The rotating cast will include Juan Williams, Dana Perino, Andrew Napolitano, Geraldo Rivera, Andrea Tantaros, Eric Bolling, Monica Crowley, Bob Beckel, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Greg Gutfeld.
Gutfeld's late-night Fox News show "Red Eye," a personal favorite, has a similar format, though "The Five" is likely to be less comical. "Red Eye" often focuses on the day's sillier news.
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Fans of cringe-inducing humor get ready: "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is coming back for an eighth season at 10 p.m. today on HBO. The show revolves around a fictional version of Larry David, the co-creator of the sitcom "Seinfeld," who plays himself. Expect more socially awkward situations from Larry and his circle of friends, frenemies and outright enemies.
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A former "Doctor Who" is coming to "Law & Order: UK," the British remake of the long-standing American crime drama. Peter Davison, who was the fifth actor to play The Doctor in the long-running British sci-fi series — and who was also the star of the classic British comedy-drama "All Creatures Great and Small" — is joining the cast. He played The Doctor from 1982 to 1984. He has continued playing the character in audio productions.
Freema Agyeman, who played a companion on "Doctor Who" in 2007, is already a regular on "L&O: UK."
The new season premieres on BBC America on Aug. 17.
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One of Davison's "Doctor Who" stories is among this Tuesday's new DVD releases. "The Awakening" is set in a quaint British village where the locals have been taken over by a mysterious force. Extras include commentary, features, and extended and deleted scenes.
Another, older "Doctor Who" story from 1966 is also being released Tuesday, "The Gunfighters." It stars William Hartnell, the first actor to play The Doctor, who in this story travels to Tombstone, Ariz., in 1881 and gets mixed up in the gunfight at the OK Corral. It also includes commentary and features.
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Also new on DVD on Tuesday: the seventh season of HBO's comedy "Entourage." It's about a movie star and his circle of friends on the party scene in Los Angeles; the third season of the legal drama "Damages"; the ninth volume of "MI-5," the gritty British thriller about espionage; "ThunderCats: Season 1, Part 1," with 12 episodes of the 1980s cult favorite, a cartoon about humanoid cat warriors fighting the forces of evil; and "Robot Chicken: Star Wars 3," a special episode of the stop-motion animation sketch comedy show that uses dolls and action figures to make fun of George Lucas' famous space opera. It includes extensive extras, including alternate takes, deleted jokes, behind-the-scenes footage and four commentary tracks.
The new releases of "Robot Chicken" and "Entourage" are also available on Blu-ray. The eighth and final season of "Entourage" will make its debut July 24 on HBO.
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