HBO has renewed Real Time with Bill Maher for an eighth season.

The political talk show returns Friday, Feb. 19, at which time it will move from its 10PM slot to 9PM.

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart got a hoot from the audience after inviting a Mexican mariachi band tp welcome anti-illegal immigration critic Lou Dobbs to The Daily Show Wednesday.

In a nearly 18-minute interview posted in full on TheDailyShow.com, the pair clashed over the pundit’s decision to depart CNN and whether America could afford to make health reform a priority with double digit unemployment. …on the edge of your seat? Keep reading!

Hot off the presses, TwiHards. Hollywood producers are plotting a plan to continue cashing in on the unprecedent mega-success of The Twilight Saga film franchise by producing a brand-new spinoff series starring one of music’s most beloved tween sensations — country blondie Taylor Swift!

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America’s Next Top Model is…a dork.

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It’s vintage Lady Gaga! Check out this recently-unearthed footage of college undergrad Stefani Germanotta, now known as Lady Gaga, performing at two original songs — “Captivated” and “Electric Kiss” — during a talent show at New York University in 2005.

Hollywood will get an early start on honoring television’s best next year. NBC has scheduled the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards for August, instead of September when they’re usually aired.

According to a statement from the network Wednesday, the August 2006 broadcast was the highest-rated Emmy ceremony in four years.

The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards will air Sunday, Aug. 29 (8-11PM ET). Nominations will be announced in July.

Will Ferrell is all bang no buck. The funnyman has topped Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the “Most Overpaid Stars In Hollywood.”

According to Forbes, for every dollar Will made, his films brought in roughly $3.29. The comedian — who was once box office gold, starring in a series of hit films including Elf and Talladega Nights — has recently taken a dive with a series of big screen stinkers, including Semi-Pro and Land of the Lost.

Ewan McGregor landed in second place. His recent films have also under-performed at the box office, earning an average of $3.75 per each dollar the actor was paid.

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Being married to the one of the world’s most revered supermodels comes with a few perks. Tom Brady — known in fashion circles as “Mr. Gisele Bundchen” — is best known for his skills with a pigskin, but that doesn’t mean the New England Patriots quarterback doesn’t have some style advice for his fellow athletes.

And he’s sharing them in the December issue of GQ Magazine, on newsstands Nov. 24.

“I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing [pleated pants],” the star told GQ, who selected Tom as one of a half-dozen Men of the Year. “I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‘C’mon, Tiger!’”

The ladies of The View could use a lesson in sensitivity….and perhaps an educational field trip to their local Rape Crisis Center. Sofia Vergara — who plays Ed O’Neill’s Colombian trophy wife on ABC’s new hit show Modern Family — was on The View this morning, where she cracked a tacky joke about rape to the robust cackles of Babs and the Gang.

Sofia — who’s a deadringer for a 25-year-old — has an 18-year-old son. How is that possible? She was raped when she was thirteen. Just kidding! Get’cha! Yeah — we didn’t find it funny, either. But the girls thought it was a riot.

This isn’t the first time the chattiest women in daytime have revealed their utter inability to “get” the seriousness of rape. We all remember Whoopi’s famous defense of Roman Polanski’s drugging and stautory rape of a 13-year-old girl; apparently, it wasn’t “rape rape.”

Socialite mom Nicole Richie has been hospitalized with pneumonia.

The 28-year-old — who gave birth to son Sparrow in September — bowed out of the Nov. 10 launch of her House of Harlow jewelry at Bebe in L.A., citing illness. On Sunday, Nicole Tweeted that she was feeling ill, writing “ok cold, it’s been 6 days.”

The 28-year-old daughter of singing legend Lionel Richie checked herself into Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after her symptoms persisted for several days. But fans have been warned not to worry – Nic is responding well to treatment and is expected to make a full recovery.

“Nicole has checked into Cedars-Sinai where she is being treated for pneumonia,” a rep for the former Simple Life star said Wednesday. “She is doing well.”

Nicole and BF Joel Madden also have a daughter, Harlow, who 22 months.