Aasif Mandvi earns loads of laughs on “The Daily Show,” so it makes sense that the actor/comedian would be given his own show. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Mandvi is writing a comedy script for CBS, which the actor would star in as a divorced marriage counselor.

The “Daily Show” correspondent will dole out relationship advice on the comedy series… if it gets picked up. CBS has bought the rights to the untitled show, and a pilot is in the works, but the series is still in the early stages.

Mandvi, 45, has contributed to “The Daily Show” since 2006, and has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, including “Die Hard with a Vengeance,” “Law & Order,” “Sex and the City” and “The Last Airbender.” This year, he appeared in Taco Bell commercials.

In addition to the new TV series, the actor has two movies out in 2012: “Premium Rush,” and “Movie 43.” Busy guy!

Today's news you might've missed:

• No doubt you've been waiting on pins and needles to know this: Yes, Hilary Duff is having a boy. [E!]

• Aspiring screenwriters, take heart - maybe you're just not writing about your would-be feature films in the right place. Warner Bros. has bought the rights to a story that was developed in a series of posts on Reddit.com. [Huffington Post]

• While Adele is trying to heal her vocal cords, Katy Perry seems to have taken over her job of performing "Someone Like You" live.

• Katherine Heigl departed "Grey's Anatomy" for movies, but she's getting back into TV.... in a way. The actress would executive produce a new drama series for The CW based on the book, "Bicoastal Babe," but the network has only ordered a script so far. [The Wrap]

• It'll be a good day to die hard on February 14, 2013. No, really - that's exactly what the fifth installment in the Bruce Willis franchise, releasing on that day, will be called: "A Good Day to Die Hard." [MTV]

The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be dedicated Sunday in Washington, D.C.

But Thursday night in New York City saw the opening of a play which portrays the civil rights leader in a different light.

"The Mountaintop" stars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in a production which takes a fictitious look at the night before King was killed. The play offers up a "behind-closed-doors" look at the leader during a meeting with a mysterious woman at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. FULL POST

Everyone breathe a sigh of relief – Courtney Stodden is back on Facebook.

E! News reports that the 17-year-old future reality star wasn’t kicked off the social networking site for being “too sexy,” as her mother claimed. It was simply a mistake.

Stodden, the teen wife of 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison, saw a fan page yanked Wednesday due to “inappropriate sexual conduct.” Mom Krista Keller told E! News jealous women were “banding together” to take down her daughter’s page.

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Will Taylor Swift’s reign of preciousness never end? The bubbly blonde superstar has graciously donated 6,000 books to a library in Reading, Pennsylvania, the town's paper The Reading Eagle reports.

The Grammy-winning singer hails from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, and chose nearby Reading for her donation because she wants to aid economically troubled libraries.

The 6,000 children’s and young adult titles were chosen by local librarians. Publisher Scholastic Inc. helped Taylor make the hefty book donation.

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In this edition of weeklies cheat sheet, it's all about Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's perhaps tortured, about-to-end romance, plus the rumor that Blake Lively snatched her "Green Lantern" co-star Ryan Reynolds right out from under Sandra Bullock's nose.

To say that Thursday night's "Community" was the most impressive half hour of television this season is a severe understatement.

The episode started off simply, with the study group attending Troy and Abed's housewarming party, but when the time came for someone to be chosen to go downstairs to get the pizza, Jeff decided to roll Yahtzee dice to determine who had to go. Abed pointed out that he was creating six different timelines, and that's where the fun began.

For example, when Annie got the pizza, Troy found a gun in her purse; a gun which went off and shot Pierce in the timeline where Troy got the pizza (things got really bad here, as Troy's absence also ended up starting a fire).

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After the requisite Seattle skyline shot(s), last night's "Grey's Anatomy" opened with Meredith folding baby Zola's clothes, partly because it gives her comfort, and partly because she knows that by the time she and Derek get the little girl back - IF they get her back - she'll have long outgrown them.

"The human body is designed to compensate for loss," says Meredith. "It adapts; so it no longer needs the thing it can't have. But sometimes the loss is too great and the body can't compensate on its own. That's when surgeons get involved."

Lexie breezes through the house, luggage in tow, to deliver her scant few lines in this episode. Seriously, where has Lexie been? Are the writers waiting for her bad-choice bangs to grow out before they give her story lines again?

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Lindsay Lohan’s teeth are causing quite a stink. People reports that the starlet’s smile was looking shabby on a red carpet in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and LiLo’s rep is firing back at media reports, defending his clients’ looks.

"Lindsay is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women on the planet, and is regularly sought-after by some of the top photographers in the world to appear on covers of magazines around the globe,” Lindsay’s rep Steve Honig commented to CNN regarding the widely distributed (and disturbing) photos.

Honig would also like us to avert our gaze: “There are so many more important issues the media should be focusing on, such as homelessness, lack of funding for public education and relations between America and its allies."

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As if it wasn't enough to see Sheldon's "mortal enemy" Wil Wheaton back on Thursday night's episode of "The Big Bang Theory" (already a cause for celebration), we also got two "Star Trek: The Next Generation" alums for the price of one.

When Sheldon and Leonard got the fateful invite to Wil's party, Sheldon refused, but Leonard was seriously considering it. This led to "Schrodinger's Friendship," based on the famous scientific experiment, of course.

Watching Sheldon simultaneously be Leonard's best friend and mortal enemy (and boy, is there a long list of those, on a five and a quarter inch floppy) was a riot.

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