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Pudsey, the dancing dog who electrified UK audiences and won “Britain’s Got Talent” along with his human trainer, Ashleigh Butler, could be heading to the big screen.

Jonathan Shalit, whose London-based ROAR Group represents Pudsey and Ashleigh (among other “BGT” clients), tells me that he’s pitched a Pudsey movie and has one UK film company very interested in his idea.

The movie would center around a young girl named Madison, who rescues a dog named Pudsey. Madison, who’s somewhat of an outcast, loves to dance, and uses Pudsey as an imaginary partner. But Pudsey is pressed into service at a local dance competition when Madison’s partner is a no-show, and after Madison and Pudsey win the talent competition, Madison is transformed into the most popular girl in school — causing her to start ignoring Pudsey, who, feeling rejected, runs away.

Madison, realizing how important Pudsey is to her — and how shallow her new “friends” really are — searches for and finds Pudsey, who becomes part of the school musical. Everyone lives happily ever after.

“Think ‘High School Musical’ with a dog!” Shalit says.

There’s more to the movie, of course, but you get the general idea.

If the movie goes ahead, Pudsey would star, with Ashleigh training him (natch). Ashleigh, by the way, is set to star in the British stage show “Dick Whittington and his Dog,” a Christmas theatrical show for children.

Pudsey and Ashleigh appeared last week on “America’s Got Talent” and also stopped by NBC’s “Tonight Show” a few weeks back, where Ashleigh was interviewed by Jay Leno.

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CBS This Morning” is shaking up its on-air roster, with Norah O’Donnell replacing Erica Hill starting this fall.

O’Donnell, who’s covered the White House for CBS News since joining the network from NBC in June 2011, will relinquish that beat (a replacement will be announced later). Hill, who’s co-anchored with Charlie Rose and Gayle King since the revamped show’s launch, “is in discussions regarding a new role,” according to CBS.

Elsewhere, ABC’s “Good Morning America” retained is title as TV’s top-rated morning show last week, averaging 4.6 million viewers to finish 400,000 viewers ahead of “Today.” It also tied “Today” with 1.7 million viewers in the all-important “news demo” of adults 25-54.

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To coincide with tonight’s opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Nielsen has released some interesting factoids, pointing toward more interest among US viewers — vis a vis the opening ceremonies — when the games are held here.

For example, the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing snared 35 million viewers — but 40 million watched the opening ceremonies held in Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Olympics (viewership numbers for the opening ceremonies from the 1984 games in LA were unavailable, for some reason).

By comparison, 25 million watched the opening ceremonies for the Summer 2004 games held in Athens, while 27 million watched the 2000 opening ceremonies for games in Sydney, Australia and 23 million watched the opening ceremonies from Seoul, South Korea in 1988.

Oh, and the 1976 games in Montreal? Those averaged 14 million viewers — but, let’s face it, the TV landscape back then was quite a bit different (there was virtually no cable and certainly no Internet or other viewing “platforms”).

Imagine that.

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New York stories: The “No Soup For You” truck, with “Seinfeld” actor Larry Thomas (“The Soup Nazi”) ladling out free soup, stops at Ch. 11 next Wednesday during its eight-city national tour to promote “Seinfeld” repeats (which air on Ch. 11 weeknights at 11 and 11:30 and Sundays at 9 and 9:30 p.m.).

And auditions for the new season of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” — they never did add that question mark — will be held Aug. 2 during the Brooklyn Cyclones game at MCU Park (1904 Surf Ave. in Brooklyn); Aug. 5 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem (253 W. 125th St.); and Aug. 15 during the Somerset Patriots game at TD Bank Ballpark (1 Patriots Park in Bridgewater, NJ).

More game shows: “Wheel of Fortune” did a really nice thing recently by welcoming 89-year-old WWII veteran George Hamer to the set, where he posed for photos with show hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White while they were taping an episode for the show’s 30th season. Hamer even got to spin the show’s iconic wheel and was greeted by a personal puzzle which read: “WHEEL WELCOMES GEORGE.”

The backstory is that Hamer and his late wife played along with the “Wheel” contestants every night — and he’s never missed an episode in 30 years (as long as the show’s been on the air). His visit to the set was made possible by a partnership between Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime Foundation and Brookdale Senior Living.

Bloom, a two-time Olympian skier and former NFL player, founded Wish of a Lifetime Foundation in 2007 to grant lifelong wishes to seniors, and the foundation has since partnered with Brookdale Senior Living.

I’m verklempt.

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Last, but not least:

* Antenna TV will air a tribute to the late Sherman Hemsley tomorrow, beginning at 9 p.m., with a six-episode, three-hour marathon of “All in the Family,” the series which propelled Hemsley to stardom on “The Jeffersons.” All of the episodes, airing in their original chronological order, feature Hemsley’s George Jefferson character . . . Bravo has renewed Kathy Griffin’s talk show, “Kathy,” for a second season expected to premiere in January . . . On-the-go publicist Amy Prenner is in town.