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Drew Carey to Host Price: Drew Carey named as new host of The Price Is Right, replacing retired Bob Barker. Carey says job fit his principles: “fun, easy to do, not work.” Barker’s Beauties immediately whisked away and replaced by Carey’s Clevelanders. [Variety]

Dillane Double-Bill Canceled: First two productions of the Bridge Project, collaboration between London’s Old Vic and BAM, are canceled because of illness in the family of Tempest and Hamlet star Steven Dillane. Project will pick up in 2009 with Winter’s Tale and The Cherry Orchard, both starring Simon Russell Beale and directed by Sam Mendes. [NYT]

Disturbia Pair on Y: Disturbia director D.J. Caruso and writer Carl Ellsworth will adapt Brian K. Vaughn’s comic book Y: The Last Man, about a calamity that kills every man on earth except for one. As huge fans of the comic, all we can say is: Don’t fuck it up, boys. [HR]

Big Love Renewed: HBO orders third season of Big Love, will move show back to Sunday nights. Expect Nussbaum-baiting spinoff, Samarra the Evil Child-Bride, to be announced soon. [Variety]

Hoch Back Off Broadway: Danny Hoch returns to the New York stage with his first new show since 1998, Till the Break of Dawn, about an “Internet hip-hop activist” who leads a group to Cuba. Rapping, keeping it real ensue. [Playbill]

BET Cleans Up Mess: Hot Ghetto Mess, the most inspiringly named upcoming TV show on the schedule, has been retitled by network BET to innocuous We Got to Do Better, which is a worse name by a factor of seventeen. In the face of continued controversy, show to be renamed Everything Is Basically Okay in Our Nation’s Inner Cities next week. [NYT]