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Adele has reclaimed the #1 stop on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart with her single Set Fire to the Rain. Her album 21 is still leading the Billboard 200 charts too!

Facebook announced that over the next few weeks, they’ll be automatically switching users’ profiles to the new Timeline format if they don’t do it on their own. They are really pushing these new 60+ Timeline apps so they want everyone on Timeline.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has officially become the worst reviewed movie ever for a Best Picture Oscar nominee. LOL! (Let’s face it, please only voted for it because it is about 9/11)

Seriously?!?! Warner Brothers has given the green light for a third Hangover movie. (Is that necessary?) However, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis are asking for $15 million each so this might not happen.

It's been nearly six years since Star Jones announced live on The View that she was leaving the show for good, without giving anyone any warning of her departure, least of all Barbara Walters. But bygones seem to be bygones as the big news today is that Star is returning to the show in February. The former co-host is set to join the ladies to promote the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign, which aims to raise awareness about heart disease in women. As both Star and Barbara both underwent open heart surgery two years ago, it's an issue they both feel strongly about. Perhaps this is the thread that pulled these two back together.

Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment is partnering with Sony Pictures Television and Will & Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment for a new DJ-themed reality competition show. The show id being described as a “live, new international TV format to find the world’s greatest DJs.”

True Blood creator Alan Ball just got that go ahead for a new show for Cinemax. The show is called Banshee and “centers around an ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, PA where he continues his criminal activities even as he’s being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he had betrayed years earlier.”

JCPenney’s is permanently marking down all of its merchandise by at least 40% so shoppers no longer have to wait for sales to get bargains. Penney’s said yesterday that it is getting rid of the hundreds of sales it offers each year in favor of a simpler approach to pricing. Starting February 1^st, the retailer is rolling out an “Every Day” pricing strategy with much fewer sales throughout the year.