There’s been some talk show news lately — “The Bonnie Hunt Show” ending after this season, “The Doctors” renewed through 2012 — but one name you haven’t heard is Valerie Bertinelli.
Back in 2008, on the heels of her emergence as a best- selling author and Jenny Craig spokeswoman, Bertinelli was signed to host a talk show (for CBS Televi sion Distribution) and star in a TBS sitcom. The talk show isn’t likely, and the TBS sit com is a dead issue. Econom ics was the overriding factor regarding the talk show; local stations were interested in Bertinelli, but leery of cough ing up big bucks in an unpre dictable economy. “We are still very actively involved in developing a show with Vale rie,” says a CBS Television Distribution spokesperson.
A TBS spokeswoman con firmed the sitcom is not going forward.
Her rep says Valerie has an offer for a series pilot and is developing a TV movie.
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Multi-hyphenate Nick Can non (“America’s Got Talent,” Nickelodeon, publishing ven tures) adds radio to his resume when he joins 92.3 FM’s lineup Jan. 19, hosting a live Top 40 show (6-10 a.m.) from midtown. He’s married to Mariah Carey, by the way.
More radio (sort of): Last Friday’s Jingle Ball concert, sponsored by Z-100, will be recounted Friday on MSG (11 p.m.) with backstage footage and other unseen moments (including Usher joking around with Justin Bieber).
And Julian Lennon, who’s got a new EP (“Lucy”), per forms live Sunday (9 p.m.) on Q104’s “Out of the Box” (Jon athan Clarke).
Last, but not least:
* Martial arts star Taimak at resort jeweler Alicia Shul man’s midtown holiday soi ree . . . CNBC’s Suze Orman has reached 1 million Twitter followers . . . Katie Cassidy (“Melrose Place”) at Miami’s new Armani Exchange store . . . Clicking on your holiday greeting is 30 seconds of my life I’ll never get back.