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Maybe it was the fact that Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin gave Saturday Night Live one of its most-discussed skits since "Dick In A Box," but the ever-changing sketch-comedy program is choosing to reestablish a respectable X-to-Y chromosome ratio. Last week it was announced that comedians Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott will join the show to fill the gap left by new mother Amy Poehler and 30 Rock-helming Fey. Despite news that they were to debut in this weekend's episode (hosted by Paul Rudd), it seems they will appear later this month.

Will Arnett is one of the funniest people around. But it's been sort of rough going for the Arrested Development vet these last few years. Blades of Glory? Semi-Pro? The Brothers Solomon? Come on! He can do better. Fox thinks so, too. Luckily, the network is putting its money where its mouth is, signing Arnett to a seven-figure deal to develop a sitcom.

10 Best Saturday Night Live Female Cast Members (#1-5)

DVD Release Date: Sept. 9
Director/Writer: Michael McCullers
Cinematographer: Daryn Okada
Starring: Tina Fey, Steve 
Martin, Amy Poehler
Studio/Run Time: Universal, 99 mins.

Fey and Poehler have been funnier

Science has given us nothing if not new life for the “you want to put what, where?” schtick. Baby Mama takes the age of fertility options and mines it for body humor, breezing by more subtly funny moments along the way.

Release date: Aug. 22 (limited)
Director: Andrew Fleming
Writers: Fleming, Pam Brady
Cinematographer: Alexander Gruszynski
Starring: Steve Coogan, Amy Poehler, Catherine Keener, David Arquette, Skylar Astin, Phoebe Strole, Elisabeth Shue
Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 94 mins.

High schoolers get silly for silly high schoolers

Fusing transparently edgy gross-outs to “hey-let's-put-on-a-show!” teen-musical fare, Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2 is its own variety of stupid/smart back-to-school comedy. Crappy American accent or not, Steve Coogan is all bitchy obliviousness as talentless actor Dana Marshcz, who’s washed up as a high-school drama teacher in Tucson, Ariz. “You’ve produced nothing worth saving,” the school paper’s precocious critic tells him when the administration cuts Marschz’s program entirely. Occasionally, characters like Joseph Julian Soria’s intense Octavio and even Marschz himself (a recovering alcoholic in a crumbling relationship) show signs of depth as they stage Marschz’s Hamlet sequel, like maybe they’ll say something useful about race or sexuality or art. But it’s all a tease. Fleming and South Park writer Pam Brady go for gags, the final show a pastiche involving time travel, Jesus and the Gay Men’s Choir of Tucson. Amy Poehler is histrionic as an ACLU lawyer. Marschz's musical is glorious. The movie, though, is just alright.

Watch the trailer for Hamlet 2:

Write this down: spin-offs are apparently the new black next season. We've got teen-soap spin-offs, cartoon spin-offs, and spin-offs we don't really know anything about.