Tina Fey Is Pregnant

During a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show Wednesday, Fey revealed that she's expecting her second child. The 30 Rock star is five months along, her rep confirms. Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond, also have 5-year-old daughter Alice. Fey, 40, shared the news during an appearance to promote her new book, Bossypants, and an upcoming Saturday Night Live reunion. Oprah's chat with Fey is scheduled to air April 12.
The Law & Order: SVU star and her husband, actor Peter Hermann, have adopted a baby girl. Baby Amaya Josephine was born about a week ago and is from the United States. "I'm deliriously happy," Hargitay, 47, says. "From the minute she was born, she was just surprisingly alert and so full of love." "We were considering both international and domestic adoption and we're thrilled that this is the way our prayers were answered," she adds. "We talked a lot about mixed-race adoptions, and we are very excited that we are now a multi-racial family. We're just so happy she's here." And there's one family member who's more excited than anyone: Hargitay's 4-year-old son, August.  "He is over the moon," says the actress. "He calls her his baby because he says the whole thing was his idea. He always talks about how he's going to protect her. He's going to be a great big brother."

Nonprofit defends $332,500 payment to Bristol Palin

The head of a nonprofit group against teen pregnancy defended the $332,500 his organization paid Bristol Palin over a two-year period to advocate for sexual abstinence. "Bristol did a tremendous amount of work for us -- many, many days and weeks," said Neil Cole, founder of the nonprofit Candie's Foundation. Bristol Palin, the 20-year old daughter of former Alaska Governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, was paid $262,500 by Candie's Foundation for her work in 2009, which was detailed in financial statements from the nonprofit organization. In 2010, when her schedule was filled with other commitments including a high-profile run on ABC television show "Dancing with the Stars," she was paid a lesser amount of $70,000, a spokeswoman said on behalf of the nonprofit. Bristol Palin, then 18, was pregnant during the 2008 presidential campaign and her son was born in the month after the election. She and the boy's father, Levi Johnston, had a much-publicized breakup.






Mariah is just days away from giving birth to twins, but that hasn't stopped her from posing topless and baring her belly to Life & Style magazine. “I was feeling very vulnerable about taking pictures at all right now, but then I didn’t want to miss this opportunity to document this once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Mariah exclusively tells Life & Style.













TV NEWS
ABC Family is teaming with 27-year-old country music superstar Miranda Lambert to develop a series based on her early years living with her private investigator parents.


Glenn Beck later this year will end his Fox News Channel talk show, which has sunk in the ratings and has suffered from an advertiser boycott. Fox and Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, said they will stay in business creating other projects for Fox television and digital, starting with some documentaries Beck is preparing.



The case for Mary McDonnell succeeding Kyra Sedgwick on The Closer just got stronger. Sources confirm that McDonnell will reprise her role as Captain Sharon Raydor for the show’s super-sized “final” season — but not for another measly arc. The Battlestar Galactica vet has been upgraded to a full-time series regular. The news comes two months after TVLine reported that TNT was looking to keep the Closer franchise going with or without Sedgwick — whose desire to leave at the end of Season 7 prompted the cable net to pull the plug in the first place. The likeliest scenario has the network folding some of Closer‘s current cast into a spinoff titled Major Crimes. While it’s unclear if McDonnell would be included in such an offshoot, it’s safe to say producers are keeping their options open.


Martin Lawrence is returning to television for the finale of TV One’s Love That Girl!, which stars Tatyana Ali. The episode, airing Monday, April 11 at 9/8c, marks Lawrence’s first TV role not playing himself since Martin wrapped in 1997.


Lost‘s beloved Rose, aka L. Scott Caldwell, is set to appear in the May 12 episode of CBS’ CSI as the former mother-in-law of Laurence Fishburne’s Langston.


Fox’s Raising Hope has made recurring star Gregg Binkley — aka supermarket manager Barney — a series regular for Season 2.


The Hills’ Heidi Montag, onetime Bachelor Jake Pavelka, Real Housewife Danielle Staub and three other reality-TV alumni are now shooting a VH1 competition series in which the half-dozen of ‘em work to turn an empty L.A. space (step away with the Heidi joke…) into a happenin’ nightclub. After opening night, one fauxlebrity will be awarded a stake in the hotspot.


Comedienne Wanda Sykes has joined the ever-increasing list of guest stars stopping by the third season of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva.


Just days after reports surfaced that Katie Couric would exit her CBS Evening News post, rumors of a similar variety began to swirl about her Today successor, Meredith Vieira. Vieira is considering vacating her Today cohost post when her contract expires later this year. A source says that while “NBC is doing everything they can to convince her to stay,” the early morning hours have become too demanding on Vieira and her family, and she’s simply ready to move on. Insiders tell the mag that Dateline‘s Ann Curry is currently the leading candidate to fill Vieira’s vacancy.


Syfy has renewed the Tracy Morgan-hosted Scare Tactics for a 13-episode fifth season, to premiere in the fall of 2012.


Angelina Jolie's 7th Tattoo: Mystery Solved
The actress was spotted in Tusinia with a new set of coordinates added to her arm, which denotes each of her six children's birth places.  The Pitt family denies they are adding another child. The 7th coordinate tattoo on Angelina Jolie’s arm is for Brad Pitt. The previous six coordinates, all on her left arm, feature the location of the birthplaces of each of her children. The final one has its position in Oklahoma, Brad’s birthplace.

Network aimed at black audience announced for fall

The country's first broadcast network aimed at African-American audiences is set to debut this fall with free movies, sports and documentaries. Atlanta-based Bounce TV will be an over-the-air channel supported by sponsors, showing programs for blacks ages 25 to 54. It is designed to be carried on the digital signals of local television stations, and it doesn't necessarily want to compete with existing cable networks like BET, TV One, or Centric, said Ryan Glover, a former Turner Broadcasting executive and member of the Bounce leadership team. "We are basically targeting the rabbit-ear consumer," Glover said. As the network grows, it also plans to produce original programming. The network hopes to launch in as many as half of American television households, or up to 50 million homes. Bounce has already acquired the television rights to nearly 400 movies, including "The Wiz" and "Car Wash"; several Spike Lee productions, including "Jungle Fever," "Mo' Better Blues" and "Do the Right Thing"; and films featuring Oscar winner Denzel Washington, such as "The Hurricane," the Civil War epic "Glory" and "Philadelphia." The network also announced a multiyear rights agreement with Urban Sports Entertainment Group to televise football and basketball games from the country's largest black athletic conference, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, including the CIAA championship football game and select quarter- and semifinal CIAA tournament basketball games. Martin Luther King III and civil rights icon Andrew Young are also listed as founders of the network. Rainforest Films co-founders Rob Hardy and Will Packer are also on the network's leadership team, and ex-Sony Pictures Television Executive Jeffrey Wolf is leading distribution efforts.