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(CNN) — Jon and Kate Gosselin closed out their “Plus Eight” series Monday night with more of a whimper than a bang and plenty of whining, bitterness and blame.

The series finale opened with a shot of a sign posted on the couple’s property declaring, “No film crew or production staff from TLC is permitted on this property under penalty of Trespass,” signed by Jon.

Jon had called an end to the tapings through a cease and desist order against the show, for what he said was the benefit of his children.

“This is a very bittersweet goodbye for me because the kids are already missing it,” Kate Gosselin said. “Our show has provided opportunities that we wouldn’t have otherwise had.

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(CNN) — Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey’s Harpo Productions.

“Oprah will be ending her talk show,” Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe said Thursday. “She will be speaking about it on tomorrow’s live show.”

The show will air live from its Chicago, Illinois, studio at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET), he said.

The show will end on September 9, 2011, as its 25th season draws to a close, according to a letter from Harpo Inc. that President Tim Bennett addressed to partners and obtained by CNN affiliate WLS-TV.

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“Due to injuries Steven Tyler sustained last week when he fell from the stage during a concert in Sturgis, South Dakota, doctors have advised the lead singer to take the time to properly recuperate from the accident that resulted in a broken shoulder and stitches to his head,” the band said in a statement.

The accident happened August 5 during a concert at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in western South Dakota.

Tyler was dancing during “Love in an Elevator” when he fell. He was airlifted to a local hospital for initial treatment before returning to Boston, Massachusetts, for treatment with his own doctors.

“Words can’t express the sadness I feel for having to cancel this tour,” said guitarist Joe Perry. “We hope we can get the Aerosmith machine up and running again as soon as possible.”

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It’s not that there aren’t things to watch.

On network television, there are plenty of repeats, reality shows and final episodes of series that have been canceled.

But summertime viewing on network television can be a wasteland, especially for bloggers and critics whose gig it is to write and report on TV, said Kath Skerry, founder and editor of the Give Me My Remote blog.

“It’s borderline depressing,” Skerry said. “Between the onslaught of reality television and what I call filler TV — shows that the networks may have under contract but they just feel the need to get out regardless of the quality — it almost feels like [the networks] have given up.”

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Patrick Swayze’s new A&E series, The Beast, has been cancelled after 13 episodes, according to a source closely involved with the show’s production.

“There’s no way it was going to happen without Patrick,” says the source.

Swayze shot all 13 episodes of the show last summer in Chicago during his treatment for pancreatic cancer. “He had challenges while he was working because he was still doing chemo and it wasn’t always easy but in spite of all of that, he’d suit up and show up,” his wife Lisa told PEOPLE. “He was always there.”

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NEW YORK – The final act of the year’s biggest pop culture sensation will not be seen on TVs, beamed out to multiplexes or heard much on the airwaves. Well, at least not in America.

The phenomenon of Susan Boyle, seen by millions of Britons on ITV’s “Britain’s Got Talent,” has been a worldwide digital storm played out in sporadic installments on the Internet. Videos of her first performance in April — “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical “Les Miserables” — have been watched more than 220 million times, according to Internet video research firm Visible Measures.

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Multiple sources confirm that ABC has pulled the plug on Samantha Who? after two seasons.

The news comes as a bit of a surprise considering ABC and the show’s producers appeared to be close to compromising on a cost-cutting measure that would have shifted the comedy from its current single-camera format to the more traditional (and cheaper) multi-camera model.

On the bright side, at least there will be closure: Per an ABC insider, seven unaired episodes remain in the network’s arsenal and the last one “feels like a series finale.” Of course, there’s no telling when or where those eps will be shown.

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – Jay Leno checked into a hospital with an undisclosed illness Thursday and canceled the taping of the “Tonight” show, but was doing well and planned to return next week, his publicist and NBC said.

Leno left his office at NBC’s studios about midday and checked himself into a hospital for observation, said his publicist, Dick Guttman. He would not identify what ailed Leno or where he went, but characterized his illness as “mild” and said the comedian continued working throughout the day, making phone calls and writing jokes.

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TORONTO – Billy Bob Thornton’s band has canceled the rest of its Canadian tour after the actor compared the country’s fans to mashed potatoes with no gravy in a testy interview that caused a sensation online.

The Boxmasters opened for Willie Nelson on Thursday in Toronto, where they reportedly were booed and met with catcalls of “Here comes the gravy.”

A note posted on Nelson’s Web site Friday said the Boxmasters were canceling the rest of their Canadian dates “due to one band member and several of the crew having the flu.”

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CBS’s Friday night vampire romp came just one year before the Twilight craze really sunk its fangs into America. Had Moonlight come just 12 months later, would viewers have devoured it? (And, subsequently, CBS, too?) No one can know for sure.