December 13th, 2008 11:38 am

Quick News Bites: 13th December ‘08

         
• An official announced hasn’t been made yet, but Desperate Housewives will be around for at least another four years. Creator Marc Cherry is currently in talks with ABC in regards to a deal extension which will see the Housewives remain on our small screens until 2012-2013. The current season, which fast-forwarded five years has received a lot of positive feedback and has opened a can of worms for the writers.

• NBC recently announced they would be scrapping their 10pm shows for a talk show hosted by Jay Leno. For weekending December 5th , the Tonight Show finished with its highest ratings since February – 5.3M A18-49: 1.4 and won its timeslot against The Late Show with David Letterman and Nightline, 4.2M A18-49: 1.0/4 and 4M A18-49: 1.1/4 respectively.

• On Friday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced our Hugh Jackman will be hosting the Oscars.

• HBO’s critically acclaimed Tru Blood will be back for a second season and creator Alan Ball has dropped a few secrets in regards to season two: 

WARNING SPOILERS “Jason goes into the Fellowship of the Sun church in a big way and is surprised by what he finds there. There’s a new creature in town that is unlike any other. Nobody knows what this creature is, I’m not sure if it will be entirely explained in the show — it’s not a werewolf. There are new romances for Tara, Jason and Sara. Bill and Sookie have a lot of issues to sort out — including having made a new teenage vampire that’s living in their house. Bill and Sookie also go to Dallas to find one of their own who has gone missing.”

• Showtime is developing a new reality series concerning gay people coming out to friends and family. It will be led by Bryn Freedman and will be titled Way Out.

• Privileged hasn’t been doing too well out of a friendly Gossip Girl lead-in, with the first episode mustering only 2.20M A18-49:1.0/2 A18-34:1.5/4 and the second episode slipping even further to 1.90M A18-49: 1.0/2 A18-34: 1.5/4. Fans should enjoy the remaining episodes as I don’t see The CW renewing it.