En Vivo! Desde Madrid! Es Sábado en la Noche!

· A Spanish version of SNL will premiere early in 2009, but not necessarily on a Saturday night. Fernando Jerez, programming director of Cuatro, said in a statement the sketch show is “going to be pretty much like the original version” and that the network “couldn’t be more excited to host its first token Negro.” [Variety]
· Barbara Walters’s 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008 lifted ABC to a Thursday win. We were sure she was going to pick Obama for the top spot, but she threw everyone a curveball and chose a certain courageous and tenacious woman from the campaign trail instead. We couldn’t agree more. [Variety]
· Joseph Fiennes and John Cho are close to starring in ABC’s new Lost companion series Flash Forward, the tale of a worldwide two-minute blackout caused by watching ABC’s last, snore-inducing Lost companion series, Life on Mars. [THR]

After the jump: Ooh, goodie! Just what we need—more annoyingly ubiquitous bus ads about teenagers fucking!

· A Gossip Girl spinoff is in the works. We think the title Chuck is already taken, but that’s clearly where this needs to go. [THR]
· Collagen-enhanced screwball actress’s rights spokesperson Anna Faris has signed on for two new projects: a buddy-sister comedy at Paramount, and 20 Times a Lady at Columbia, about “woman who goes on a trek through her sexual past in an effort to find Mr. Right.” [THR]