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."

NBC's "Today" show maintained its strong lead over ABC's "Good Morning America" and CBS' "The Early Show." "Today" was the only morning show that was up week-to-week in total viewers.

Last Monday, "Today" drew 6.35M total viewers, the largest single-day average for the show since January. "Today" has posted its strongest start against the competition since the 2002-2003 season.

The averages from last week:

Total Viewers: NBC: 5.89M / ABC: 4.45M / CBS: 2.80M

A25-54 rating: NBC: 2.0 / ABC: 1.4 / CBS: 0.9

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	689	525	477	1069	744	571	519
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Tonight:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	138	118	148	193	258	216	151
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Olbermann:	Maddow:
	108	102	175	316	240	208	127
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Behar:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	126	121	195	359	188	259	145

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In the Fox News Sarah Palin ratings race, the win goes to Sean Hannity.

Hannity's interview with Palin Wednesday night, a cable news first as she makes the rounds promoting Going Rogue, drew 4.20M Total Viewers and 1.15M in the A25-54 demo.

Last night, Bill O'Reilly's interview with Palin drew 4.12M Total Viewers and 1.07M in the demo. But O'Reilly has two more nights of Palin -- tonight and Monday.

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Fox Business will cover the Senate vote on healthcare reform tomorrow night. Coverage begins at 8pmET with David Asman anchoring from New York and Peter Barnes reporting live from Capitol Hill.

> Update : MSNBC will break in to documentary programming for the vote with David Shuster anchoring (after watching the Michigan/Ohio State game apparently).

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was live today from John McDonogh High School in New Orleans. The special broadcast was set up to kick off the "Brewing Together Day of Service" partnership and volunteer effort between MSNBC, Starbucks and the HandsOn Network. (You can find out more here.)

After the show, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spoke with TVNewser (via flipcam) from New Orleans about their project as well as media coverage of Katrina and its victims.

Glenn Beck will be in Florida tomorrow wrapping up a two-day, seven-city speaking and book-signing tour. During his stop at The Villages retirement community north of Orlando, Beck promises to reveal how his Fox News show will look come January, which is the one-year anniversary of the show:

Cincinnati Enquirer columnist John Kiesewetter explains why Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer wears a purple tie every Friday (aka "Purple Friday") on "America's Newsroom."

It's to support the Elder High School Panthers, his alma mater whose football team currently has a 9-2 record for the season with one more game to go against those Anderson H.S. Redskins tomorrow night.