Today TLC announced that it is cancelling Kat Von D‘s reality show. The fourth season of LA Ink, currently airing, will be the last.

News broke just days before the season premiere that Von D and Jesse James had ended their engagement. Show ratings couldn’t have been helped by the announcement. The new season revolves around the couple’s wedding preparations, now completely irrelevant.

Von D suggested via her Twitter feed that it was actually her choice to end the show:

Presumably Von D’s Hollywood tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, will remain open, though there may be a drop in business now that the cameras are gone.

Felica Devers, a longtime Hollywoodphile-turned-segment-producer, has launched HerHollywood.com.

The new site is aimed at women “working and desiring to work in the film and television fields,” and Devers hopes it morphs into an online community of industry women with Hollywood news and a vibrant job board.

Devers told FBLA the site is a natural extension of her love for all things Hollywood.

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Discovery Communications has hired Angela Shapiro-Mathes to head TLC. She was President of Fox Television Studios.

TLC has been rudderless since David Abraham left in February, and the new head of Discovery, David Zaslav, wants an LA presence for TLC. The network’s mandate used to be “lifelong learning for viewers who want to grow up, not old”, which makes it sound like a bran cereal.
Now, TLC is supposed to get more appealing to women. How the addition of American Chopper to the line-up helps accomplish that isn’t clear.

TLC has been known for re-treads of BBC shows, as well as a mish-mash of programming with Miami Ink, Big World, Little People, and Fake Baboon Ass and House Demolition Challenge.

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TLC will offer a tough-love model reality show, hosted by tsunami survivor Petra Nemcova. So when walking in high heels proves too much for the hopefuls, they’ll have to listen to her story about having survived hell and high water to make it to the catwalk. Tommy Mottola, a force of nature himself, and Dave Broome (Biggest Loser) will EP.

Justine Timberlake will host The Kid’s Choice Awards. He’s won “best burp” twice. That sexy sure repeats on ya, don’t it?

Army Archard marvels at Eddie Murphy’s Norbit. Murphy plays Norbit, Rasputia and Mr. Wong. Why have just one group mad at you when you can have dozens?

The WGA has assembled an all-star team to negoiate their new contract. Marc Cherry, Bill Condon, Susannah Grant and 15 others will hammer out the terms. A committee of bigshots should mean all parties concerned will take this very seriously. New media reuse rights and what WGA members can get paid for those will be an important issue. Right now, they get bupkis.

Adam Sandler will star as a reluctant Mossad agent in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel. Sandler’s character fakes his own death so he can move to the Apple and become a hair stylist. But is it good for the Jews?

Harold Perrineau, of Lost, will co-star as a former Jesuit turned shrink whose bestest pal ever is an exorcist in CBS’s pilot, Demons. It’s not a comedy, which is a pity. Barbara Hall created this monstrosity.