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• They have announced the Dancing With The Stars Partners...here they are! Brandy and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Margaret Cho and Louis Van Amstel, Rick Fox and Cheryl Burke, Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough, David Hasselhoff and Kym Johnson, Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas, Kyle Massey and Lacey Schwimmer, Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas, Audrina Patridge and Tony Dovolani, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Karina Smirnoff, and Kurt Warner and Anna Trebunskaya.
• E! reports that Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay will be crossing over to NBC's new L&O show, Law & Order: Los Angeles. Hargitay's character Olivia Benson will turn up on the West Coast for a storyline about the backlog of untested rape kits.
• NYPD Blue's Sharon Lawrence will appear in multiple episodes of the CW's One Tree Hill. She'll be playing the mother of Austin Nichols' character Julian, who comes to town to help in the preparations for his wedding to Brooke (Sophia Bush).
• NBC has renewed America's Got Talent for a sixth season. Celebrity judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, and Howie Mandel are expected to return along with host Nick Cannon.
• George Clooney, Will Smith and Gwyneth Paltrow have joined the star-studded lineup for this month's Stand Up To Cancer telethon, which will air on all the major networks. Others taking part in the September 10th fundraiser include: Denzel Washington, Renee Zellweger, Kathy Bates and Richard Branson.
• Samantha Who's Jennifer Esposito will guest star on CBS's new cop drama Blue Bloods. The series stars Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg as members of a family with deep roots in law enforcement. Esposito will appear in several episodes, playing Wahlberg's partner in the NYPD.
• HBO has ordered a third season of Hung. Ten new episodes will air sometime in 2011.
•EW.com reports that former ER star Mekhi Phifer has been let go from Fox’s Lie To Me. The show’s producer says the decision was storyline based. “We’re going rogue a little bit,” explains executive producer David Graziano. “Lightman [Tim Roth] is going to act slightly in the more old-school PI model of a TV protagonist, [so] we’re doing away with the FBI contract [and] Mekhi is unfortunately no longer going to be on the show.”
•TNT has renewed Memphis Beat for a second season. The show stars Jason Lee as a Tennessee detective.
• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will star in the sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, titled Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Like the original, which starred Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson, the film will be shot in 3D. Johnson replaces Fraser, who dropped out of the project due to scheduling. He'll play the new boyfriend of Hutcherson's mother.
