Michael J. Fox will be making his return to primetime this fall in a comedy series that will mirror his real life battle with Parkinson’s. The untitled comedy will star Fox as a newscaster who is forced to quit his job when he is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but later returns to work when a new medical regimen gets his symptoms under control. Similarly Fox had to leave acting for a few years when his symptoms became too severe but has recently taken on more work as his medication has brought the worst of his tics under control.

The show will most likely air as part of NBC’s Thursday night lineup, replacing show’s like 30 Rock that ended in January and The Office which will air a series finale this spring. The show will approach Fox’s life with “a lot of irreverence,” said entertainment president Jennifer Salke. The show will tackle work and family relationships as well as Fox’s public persona.

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Rumors have been circulating for weeks but now its official: Jeff Zucker has been officially named as the president of CNN. Zucker, who became executive producer of the “Today” show by the age of 26, is promising that his first order of business will be making sure that  CNN is “relevant, vibrant and exciting.”

He also promised to keep CNN an independent news voice as opposed to stations like MSNBC and Fox News Channel which have obviously political leanings.

“Both Fox News Channel and MSNBC do a terrific job at what they do,” he told the Daily News. “CNN does something different – in a world where Fox and MSNBC exist, CNN becomes all that more important. You don’t have to have a political point of view to succeed, you have to be vibrant and exciting, the biggest sin in television is to be boring.”

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Emmy Award winner and former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw was hospitalized early this morning after becoming dizzy on the set of talk show “Morning Joe.” The 72 year old was in North Carolina as a special correspondent for the Democratic Convention. President of NBC News Steve Capus made the following statement about the incident: ” On the set of  ‘Morning Joe’ this morning, Tom Brokaw felt light-headed. Out of an abundance of caution, he was taken to a hospital. He is being evaluated, is in good spirits, and is expected to be released shortly.” Brokaw indeed did appear to be in good spirits, taking to Twitter to update fans on his condition. “All is well Early AM i mistakenly took a half dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual,” he said. Brokaw was an anchor with NBC for over two decades and has stayed with the network in recent years as a special correspondent.

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