News Roundup: New Shows, Returning Shows, Annoying Shows

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Hello, all. Here’s a few news items for your perusal today:

• Entourage boss Doug Elin apparently doesn’t care what you think about the show’s final season. Also, he says the show wasn’t canceled; he just thought it was time to stop.
• Vulture uses One Day as a reason to look at how frustrating the audience has become the new fad of highbrow entertainment, with a bonus dig at The Killing.
• USA has released the official winter return dates for Covert Affairs: Annie and the gang will be back Nov. 1 for six more anticlimactic spy stories, two days before Burn Notice starts its winter run. Also, the end of White Collar‘s third season won’t be airing until January 2012.
• Shawn Ryan is one of those guys who’s consistently good at turning out television that’s almost too clever to work on TV, so get this: His latest project, The Last Resort, apparently centers around the crew a nuclear submarine who occupy a NATO outpost and declare independence. The project is only at the pilot stage, but the idea’s just too cool not to mention.