Short Cuts: Fergie Is Dick Clark's New Year's Eve Date

Poor Josh Duhamel - his girlfriend's working Dec. 31: The Black Eyed Pea's just been announced as an emcee of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2008 on ABC. Other performers include Akon, Natasha Bedingfield, Sean Kingston, OneRepublic, Plain White T's, Taylor Swift and her Fergaliciousness' fellow Pea, will.i.am.... When Fox airs the 39th NAACP Image Awards on Valentine's Day, the black-tie back-slap will include two new categories: Outstanding Documentary (Television or Motion Picture) and Outstanding World Music Album.... Kelly Preston and Ron Eldard have signed on to star in Lifetime's adaptation of Jodi Picoult's best-seller The Tenth Circle, about a girl who accuses her mom's ex of rape.... Bravo has greenlit a pilot for Hey Bitches, a reality show in which OUTzone.TV.com's William Sledd ("Ask a Gay Man") considers leaving the small pond of Paducah, Kentucky, to enter the whirlwind of New York fashion.... Early next year, ESPN will kick off ScoreCenter.com, a new website that will provide live scores for 23 sports in 180 countries. - Ben Katner