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• The Daily Beast offers one writer's frustrated take on Charlie Sheen, who seems to get less attention for his behavior than celebrities accused of less serious offenses.

• Sniffle: NBC hasn't even started airing the fourth season of Friday Night Lights, but news is emerging that the fifth season will be it for the critically beloved drama.

• A study reported in Discovery News makes the interesting assertion that people might not be as turned on by graphic violence as programmers sometimes seem to think they are.

Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone reunite, after the jump.

 

• Amy Heckerling, who directed Clueless, is reportedly ready to team up with Alicia Silverstone again on the comedy Vamps. Tired as I am of vampire-alia, that's a combination I could definitely get behind.

• It looks like there are a lot of holes in YouTube's new filtering options (if it's really true you can get around it by clearing browser cookies), but as the piece notes, it's at least part of the story of YouTube trying to respond to concerned regulators.

• Ellen DeGeneres may have a new gig on American Idol, but she's keeping her old one, too — NBC-owned stations have signed on with her her daytime talk show through 2014.