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Singer Rihanna arrives for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards (CFDA) at Lincoln Center in New York June 2, 2014CARLO ALLEGRI/Reuters

RADIO SILENCE

Football and music fans, take note: The breakup between Rihanna and CBS is now official.

The network announced late Tuesday that it was "permanently editing" a song featuring the Barbadian pop star's hook out of its Thursday Night Football broadcasts.

Last week, the network removed Rihanna's distinctive musical hook from the Jay Z song Run This Town, which was originally supposed to play in the network's pregame show for the game between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers.

The reason for the removal: Baltimore player Ray Rice had just been handed an indefinite ban from professional football after shocking video of him assaulting his wife in a hotel elevator went public.

CBS cut the segment for fear of how having a song featuring a domestic abuse survivor – Rihanna was infamously assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009 – would be perceived by viewers.

At the time, CBS Sports president Sean McManus said the singer's history as a domestic violence victim was part of the reason they pulled the song, but not the overriding one.

"It's important to realize we are not overreacting to this story but it is as big a story has faced the NFL," McManus told Sports Illustrated.

But CBS's plans to use Run This Town during this Thursday's NFL game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons – as well as on Thursday broadcasts for the rest of the NFL season – hit a bump yesterday when Rihanna tweeted, "CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? No, F–k you! Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this."

Rihanna followed up a few hours later with a tweet that said simply, "The audacity…."

On Tuesday night, CBS responded by issuing a statement saying it was "moving in a different direction" with different theme music for the pregame show but declined to name the song or the artist.

May we suggest: The 1989 Cher single If I Could Turn Back Time?

MORALS CLAUSE

China's powerful media watchdog group has told TV stations not to air programs featuring stars "with bad records." The recent arrests of actor Jaycee Chan and director Wang Quan'an – for marijuana possession and paying for sex, respectively – has prompted the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television to issue the warning via an informal circular sent to TV companies. The ruling is expected to impact TV dramas, movies and entertainment programs.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

FAIR WARNING

Craig Ferguson has warned competitor Seth Meyers that hosting a late-night talk show will make him "crazy." Ferguson, who will leave CBS's The Late Late Show at the end of the year, visited Late Night With Seth Meyers on Tuesday night to tell the rookie host, "Anyone who does a TV show over and over and over again, you're going to go crazy." Ferguson, who takes over the host reins of the new syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game later this month, also told Meyers, "It'll get to you, man, but here's the thing: You just have to stick with it."

Source: Deadline

BAD GRANDPA

Julie Chen has revealed that her grandfather had multiple wives. The Big Brother host made the revelation on Tuesday's edition of The View, saying, "My grandfather was a polygamist. He had nine wives, six of who bore him children. He had 11 children that we know of and countless mistresses." The 44-year-old Chen, who is married to CBS CEO Les Moonves, also said that her grandfather's polygamy and his affairs took a toll on the entire family. "This was very hard on my grandmother," said Chen. "It was hard on my mom. She never knew when her dad was coming home. She tried to keep this secret from me and my two sisters for a long time."

Source: People

FROM THE VAULTS

NBC will attempt to turn the movie Problem Child into a TV sitcom. The peacock network has assigned writer Scot Armstrong to write the script for the TV version of the 1990 film that starred the late John Ritter as the adoptive father of an overly rambunctious boy named Junior, played by Michael Oliver. The original Problem Child spawned two sequels in 1991 and 1995 and was turned into an animated series that aired on the USA Network for two seasons between 1993 and 1994. The new series is expected to surface on NBC in mid-2015.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

THE BIG FREEZE

The Disney film Frozen may be the most successful animated film of all time, but Mayim Bialik isn't a fan. The Big Bang Theory star recently penned a seething blog post titled "Why My Sons and I Hate the Movie Frozen" for the website Kveller.com. Bialik's beef with the movie: The lack of strong female characters. "Sure, it's sort of hidden," writes Bialik, "but the search for a man/love/Prince is still the reigning plotline in the movie, as it is with pretty much all movies for young people which are animated … I've just had enough already with this finding a man business in most every kids' movie."

Source: Us Weekly

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