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OSCAR HOSTS NAMED: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the Academy Awards next March. Martin has hosted twice; it will be Baldwin's first time. Last year's host, Hugh Jackman, declined to be considered again this year. Coincidentally the two are co-starring in a romantic comedy with Meryl Streep, It's Complicated, opening on Christmas.

TV TIDBITS: The Parents Television Council has written a letter to The CW network critizing an upcoming Nov. 9 episode of Gossip Girl that features a threesome.

-Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. According to EW.com, he found out he was being let go by reading his character's death scene in the script.

SPECIAL GUEST STARS: Robert Wagner will appear on NCIS as the father of Tony (Michael Weatherly); James Franco, who recently filmed a stint on General Hospital, will play himself on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock.

--Ellen