News Roundup: The More Things Change

It's all perfectly simple, really.

Good afternoon, kind readers. Let’s take a look at the stories of summer.

• Variety got someone over at Community to write us an entire column for us in which Abed handicaps the Emmys. Seriously. Read it.
• THR sat down with Covert Affairs creators Matt Corman and Chris Ord for a Q&A ahead of the show’s new season. Also, Piper Perabo and White Collar‘s Matt Bomer hinted on Today that a crossover might be in the works for the upcoming season.
• NBC will be keeping the Olympics for a while longer: Despite a bidding war with Fox and Disney, Comcast won the rights to keep showing the Games through 2020.
• After a fun couple weeks of totally unverified reports, we finally got official confirmation that Cheryl Cole is out of The X Factor, which is only really news insofar as it freed up Simon Cowell to talk about it a bit. Plus, THR is reporting that Cole may end up on a British version of The Voice.
• Would you like to see even more Green Lantern footage? Cinema Blend can help you with that, with a new eight-minute clip of Hal Jordan fighting Parallax. It’s a good thing this movie’s coming out next week; else they might end up releasing so many previews that we could piece the whole thing together from the clips.

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