First On TVNewser: CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan is leaving the network to become a news anchor and reporter at PBS's The NewsHour, TVNewser has learned. A formal announcement is expected Monday morning.

Sreenivasan joins the program as it gears up for a re-launch of sorts on December 7. Along with a name change — from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to the PBS NewsHour — the show will merge its broadcast and digital platforms. In that vein, Sreenivasan will anchor the broadcast program's nightly news summary while also reporting and anchoring for PBS NewsHour online.

Sreenivasan joined CBS News in 2007. Previously, he was at ABC News and CNET.

If you watch as much live television as we do, you know that some commercials can get very repetitive and slowly drive you crazy. TVNewser appeared on "The Week in Advertising" to exact our revenge on one of those ads. (Warning: Adult themes.)

Also, host and AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven takes you back to the 1980s.

You can watch "The Week in Advertising" on the the AgencySpy sidebar each Tuesday and see the archive of previous episodes here.

CNBC will debut its latest documentary, "Inside the Mind of Google," on December 3rd. The one-hour doc is hosted by Maria Bartiromo. WebNewser has more.

CNN's Ed Henry has the backstory on covering Pres. Obama in Asia last week, specifically Wednesday morning when all the networks got sit-downs with the president in China:

As he wrapped up a two-day, seven-city book tour with a rally at the Florida retirement community The Villages today, Glenn Beck wrote an open letter on GlennBeck.com.

Beck writes that he is "meeting with some of the best minds in the country that believe in limited government, maximum freedom and the values of our Founders." What they come up with will be put into a new book called "The Plan."

Then, on August 28, 2010, Beck will unveil "The Plan" during a rally on the National Mall, "at the feet of Abraham Lincoln." Expect "The Plan" to be a overriding theme of his radio and TV shows for the next year.

"We'll be looking for ways to get people involved in politics," Beck says in an interview in Sunday's New York Times.

Below, a clip from the event at The Villages, including a mention of Arianna Huffington:

(h/t: St. Petersburg 2.0)

Another Saturday night, another vote on Capitol Hill on healthcare reform, and coverage of it on cable news. The vote, which essentially allows the debate to begin on the Senate floor, was 60-39, with Ohio GOP Sen. George Voinovich the only senator not to vote.

Interestingly, all the cable news channels were in taped programming and shook up the schedules to broadcast the Senate vote and related analysis.

• FNC's "Huckabee" was preempted for special coverage anchored by Gregg Jarrett.

• CNN's Don Lemon anchored coverage of the vote, which delayed the start of an AC360 special report until 8:10pmET (which had already been delayed once before).

• MSNBC began airing Lockup at 8pmET, then interrupted the documentary for nine minutes of coverage as the vote happened, with David Shuster anchoring.

• Fox Business Network interrupted the Dave Ramsey show for special coverage anchored by David Asman.

The two Fox networks were the only channels, other than C-SPAN, to carry the Democrats' news conference following the vote.

This week's Sunday lineup will include Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), California Republican Senate candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Salon's Joan Walsh, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, WaPo's David Ignatius, and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar.

See the full list of who's on what show over at FishbowlDC where the Sunday Show Preview is posted most Fridays.

A week of Sarah Palin interviews began Monday on Oprah and culminated last night on "20/20," and in between national TV interviews with Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly with each drawing huge ratings.

• Oprah Winfrey had her highest-rated show in two years with the Palin interview Monday.

• Wednesday's "Hannity", featuring Palin, was the second most-watched show of the year for the Fox News host with 4.2M Total Viewers.

• Thursday's O'Reilly interview with Palin drew 4.12M Total Viewers.

• And last night Barbara Walters' interview with former VP nominee won the 10 o'clock hour in Total Viewers, A18-49 and A25-54. It was the second-biggest audience for "20/20" in the last eight months.

And the interviews will continue next week. Palin will be a guest on "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" on Monday. Also, Part III of O'Reilly's interview is set for Monday.

Bill Moyers has said PBS' weekly "Bill Moyers Journal" will end on April 30, 2010, reports the NY Times:

"I am 75 years old," he said of the decision to end the series, which began in April 2007. The program has recently been having a "good run of it," he added in a telephone interview on Friday, "so I feel it's time." He said he was not quitting television work, although he has no new projects planned.

PBS says it will announce its new lineup plans in January.

Tonight on CNN, the premiere of Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes. The one-hour documentary is a compilation of the reports from CNN investigative correspondent Abbie Boudreau which aired last week on AC360. The special premieres tonight 8pmET.

Tonight at 10pmET on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera anchors a special report titled "Pirates of the 21st Century," with reports from Amy Kellogg, Greg Palkot and Martha MacCallum.

With at least 11 ships currently being held by pirates off the Somali coast including 200+ plus hostages, the special looks at how these modern-day pirates have turned their trade into a multimillion dollar, well-organized business.

He'll be at The Villages retirement community in Florida this afternoon announcing "The Plan" for his show in 2010, but if you missed it from earlier this week, here's Glenn Beck striking back at South Park, The New Yorker, Playboy, "The Daily Show" and SNL, over unflattering stories and portrayals -- including a Beck impression by Eric Cartman and a New Yorker reporter who hopes Beck's "toxic charge will fade over time."