AP - For more than 30 years, crowds have flocked to the small English fishing village of Lyme Regis to watch an annual tradition — two teams of fishermen standing on wooden platforms as human bowling pins, hurling a dead giant eel at each other. But the ritual was abruptly abandoned after an animal rights activist threatened to draw negative publicity to the latest tournament, organizers said Saturday.

AP - Regis Philbin turns 75 in August, and is back to juggling his daytime talk show with hosting duties on a prime-time reality show.

E! Online - The network has announced plans to broadcast a live, hourlong morning show starting in January, pitting the program against a.m. heavyweights Live with Regis and Kelly and the final hour of Today.

Reuters - Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" was Thursday's champ, stomping over CBS' repeat of "CSI" over on CBS and especially NBC's half-hour results show for "America's Got Talent."

AP - As Regis Philbin struggled with his salt and pepper shakers, Kelly Ripa touched the Louisiana-grown oddity called everything from a vegemelon to a fregetable to her tongue. Then she took a bite.