Dick Van Dyke Forced to Cancel N.Y.C. Appearance Due to 'Yet-to-Be Diagnosed Neurological Disorder' 

The multi-talented TV and movie veteran Dick Van Dyke has canceled public appearances planned for next week, his rep tells says. Citing "fatigue and lack of sleep resulting from symptoms of a yet-to-be diagnosed neurological disorder," Van Dyke, 87, will remain in his home in Malibu, with his wife Arlene, and not fly east for a scheduled ceremony at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y, according to the spokesperson.  The Y was planning to present Van Dyke with the institution's first Lifetime Achievement Award for Bettering Humanity through Comedy. Earlier this year, Van Dyke received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, its Life Achievement Award.  In addition to starring on TV's top-rated The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder, and in the popular 1960s movies Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (he also starred in Birdie in its original Broadway production), Van Dyke has spent the past 20 years committed to volunteer work at the Midnight Mission, a century-old downtown Los Angeles shelter for the troubled and homeless. He has also helped raise millions of dollars for their new building program and would be on the premises without fail every Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and times in between to offer his comfort and support.

ABC's Robin Roberts hospitalized again

Robin Roberts spent two days in the hospital fighting off an infection as part of her recuperation from a rare blood disease, and is off "Good Morning America" this week to rest. The ABC News morning show host said she felt ill last week while on vacation and was told to return to New York and go to the hospital. She's home now, and posted on Facebook on Thursday that she's feeling much better. Roberts underwent a bone marrow transplant in September to treat MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. She was off work for five months before returning to the top-rated network morning show on a part-time basis in February. She's generally worked three days a week, occasionally four. At the beginning of her return, ABC kept a potential fill-in on call at the studio in case she was feeling too ill to continue, the network said. Roberts said doctors told her that her setback did not occur because she was working or doing too much. "It's extremely common, post-bone marrow transplant, to have complications," she wrote. "I'm blessed that mine have not been severe." She said she planned to be back on the top-rated network morning show next week. Roberts also wrote that her heart goes out to Boston residents. "It saddens me that I haven't been able to join my colleagues in covering this important story," she said.

POLICE CALLED TO EDDIE KAYE THOMAS' HOME AFTER KNIFE THREAT

"American Pie" star Eddie Kaye Thomas called police officers to his Los Angeles home on Wednesday after a female house guest allegedly threatened him with a knife. Thomas fled the property before making the call, and a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team responded to the star's Hollywood Hills home, where the woman had barricaded herself in. Lieutenant Andrew Neiman said that the woman spent the night at the home but refused to leave the next morning when asked and pulled a knife on the actor. The unidentified female also reportedly destroyed property at the residence. A SWAT team remained at the residence throughout the afternoon and was in contact with the woman, whom they urged to surrender. Officers eventually fired flash grenades and tear gas into the property before entering the building, and taking the woman into custody about six hours after the standoff began.

'I DO' DELAY FOR MILEY AND LIAM AS THEY 'FIGURE OUT THEIR LIFE TOGETHER'

When Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth got engaged last June, the general reaction was less "mazel tov!" and more "Yeah, good luck with that." And after months of rift rumors, and some hedge-betting by no less than Miley's dad, the drumbeat of doom is growing ever louder for the lovebirds. A week after claims the capricious couple had postponed a planned summer wedding to "work out their issues," People has echoed the purported "I do" delay, reporting that Miley, 20, and Liam, 23, have come to the same conclusion as everyone else: They should hold off getting hitched. "They want to figure out their life together before they get married," explains an insider. "They're still engaged and living together. They just realized that there is no rush with the wedding, and that it's better that they wait a bit." The "Last Song" twosome have been dating off-and-on for more than three years. 

Crocodile Dundee Missing $34m: Actor Paul Hogan Launches Lawsuit To Recover Lost Cash

Crocodile Dundee is missing $34m. Aussie actor Paul Hogan, who played the plain-speaking, weathered Dundee in the 1986 film of the same name, has launched a lawsuit to retrieve money he alleges was stolen from him. The 73-year-old actor has brought a lawsuit in a US court as he attempts to recover $34 million held in a Swiss bank account. Reports on Monday said the Australian star is pursuing his former tax adviser for the cash. The Sydney Morning Herald reports there is already an international warrant out for financial adviser Philip Egglishaw, the man otherwise known as the “bowler hat Englishman.” Hogan’s advisers in the US accuse Egglishaw, who set up complex corporate structures in tax havens to help clients evade tax, of stealing Hogan’s money. Hogan’s lawyers say Egglishaw has either ”absconded” with Crocodile Dundee’s missing $34m or simply spent it all.

Kristen Stewart Exits Focus, Will Smith In Talks For Lead Role

CaptionBen Affleck and Kristen Stewart are leaving the con business, but Will Smith might be stepping in. "Focus,” the movie about a novice female con artist and a veteran older male con, has had yet another cast shakeup. Ben first circled the project, where he would have co-starred with Kristen, but after he bowed out, Will reportedly began eyeing the project, causing the former “Twilight Saga” star to exit, as well. First up, Will is starring in “After Earth,” debuting on June 7 and Kristen’s “Snow White and The Hunstman” sequel is slated for 2015.

TV NEWS

It’s official: Dexter‘s upcoming eighth season will be its last. Showtime made the announcement on the series’ Facebook page. 

Fans of AMC’s Breaking Bad now have a date for beginning of the end of the end. The second half of the acclaimed drama’s fifth and final season — eight episodes in total — will premiere on Sunday, Aug. 11 at 9 pm.

The Cleveland Show will (allegedly) not go on. Although a Fox rep insists no decision has been made, Cartoon Brew reports that Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy spin-off has been cancelled after four seasons.

Just days after its Starz premiere, Da Vinci’s Demons has been renewed for Season 2. More than 2.14 million total viewers sampled Da Vinci’s Demons during its premiere weekend, making it the highest-rated launch ever for an original Starz series. 

Bravo has given the green light to I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding, a Real Housewives of Atlanta spin-off centering on NeNe Leakes’ upcoming nuptials.

Garcelle Beauvais, has been recruited by Necessary Roughness to guest-star as Lana Langer, the outrageous mother of a star basketball player who is suddenly choking at the free throw line. Dr. Dani is enlisted to help the bricklayer get his game back. Her previous credits include Franklin & Bash, Psych and NYPD Blue. Necessary Roughness launches its 10-episode third season June 12 at 10/9c.

Like any good soap opera, the upcoming online relaunch of All My Children and One Live to Live has encountered an unforeseen twist. Prospect Park, the production company behind the daytime staples’ imminent revival, has filed a $25 million breach of contract lawsuit against ABC. In the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Prospect Park alleges that ABC has broken the licensing agreement it entered into two years ago. This development comes a few weeks before the reconfigured former ABC soaps’ April 29 debut on iTunes and Hulu. It likely stems from problems between the production company and the Alphabet Net regarding some OLTL characters (which belong to Prospect Park) that had taken up residence on General Hospital (which still airs on ABC) but have since been yanked.

“Prospect Park has been and continues to be committed to creating and delivering exceptional episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live. We have overcome each and every obstacle in an effort to make this dream become a reality. Over and over again our effort to bring these shows to audiences has faced challenges, and yet we along with the actors, the writers, producers and the directors as well as our fans have confronted and then overcome these challenges, and we have every confidence that we will prevail again. We look forward to our April 29 launch now more than ever,” said Prospect Park partners Jeff Kwatinetz and Rich Frank, in a statement.

Chris Tucker will host this year's BET Awards. The network announced Tuesday that the comedian-actor will host the show on June 30 from the Nokia Theater L.A. Live. Tucker is riding high off of his supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film "Silver Linings Playbook," which stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. The 41-year-old is best known for starring in the "Rush Hour" film franchise opposite Jackie Chan.

30 Rock vet Tracy Morgan has been named host of the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, which will air Sunday, May 19 on ABC.

In light of the terrorist attacks in Boston earlier this week, ABC is pulling an episode of "Castle" that features a bomb-related plot, a network spokesperson confirmed. The episode, "Still," was scheduled to air on Monday, but ABC has moved it to April 29. In its place, another new episode, "The Squab and the Quail," will air. "Yes. Out of respect," Stana Katic, who plays Kate Beckett, tweeted about the move. "Please note that the chronology will [be] off."

The Exes is staging a Clueless reunion! Stacey Dash (Single Ladies) has been tapped to appear opposite her former big-screen love Donald Faison in a July episode of the TV Land comedy, playing Phil’s (Faison) born-again virgin girlfriend.

The B—- is back — just not on your TV. The final eight installments of Don’t Trust the B—– in Apartment 23 — which was pulled from ABC’s lineup in the midst of its sophomore run this January — have found a new home. On May 17, the remaining episodes will be posted on ABC.com, iTunes and Hulu. 

Giovanni Ribisi has been tapped to star in Dads, Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action comedy for Fox. He replaces the previously cast Tommy Dewey (The Mindy Project). The six-episode series centers on two video-game entrepreneurs, Warner (Ribisi) and Eli (Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Seth Green), whose lives are turned upside-down when their fathers move in with them.

Three cast members of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" reality show will face charges following an altercation at a clothing boutique. A Paramus, N.J., man claims Jacqueline and Christopher Laurita and Giuseppe "Joe" Gorga attacked him as cameras rolled in Ridgewood on Saturday. A judge on Thursday determined there was sufficient probable cause to charge them with assault and making terroristic threats.

The studio behind Kris Jenner's new daytime talk show says it will launch the program in July. Twentieth Television said the show, titled "Kris," will air for six weeks starting July 15 on selected Fox-owned stations. Those will include stations in New York and Los Angeles, with more to be announced later. The limited run for "Kris" is aimed at proving itself for a national niche. Kris Jenner is the matriarch of the media clan that includes daughters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian.