Watch Dustin Hoffman (who deserved a far better Kennedy Center Honors tribute than he got last weekend – Laura Osnes singing “We’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face”? Really?) steal the spotlight from boy band One Direction when they make their first visit to fellow Ken Cen honoree David Letterman’s show Friday.

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One day after TLC announced it had picked up a TV special on the Royal Family Pregnancy (Kate Middleton’s pregnant, have you heard?) to air Sunday, Dec. 16, Lifetime swooped in with news it had picked its own RFP special, which will air Thursday, Dec. 13 — three days earlier!

Prince William and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge leave the King Edward VII hospital in central London. (LEON NEAL - AFP/GETTY IMAGES)  Lifetime’s special is called “Secrets of the Royal Nursery” which sounds SO like a TLC title!

Meanwhile, TLC’s special is called  “William and Kate: A Royal Baby Story,” which you’d swear was a Lifetime show title. It’s a world turned upside down.

The cast of "Buckwild" (MTV - MTV) MTV hit pay-dirt Friday when Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) fired off a letter to MTV president Stephen Friedman asking that the network “put a stop to the travesty” that is its new docu-series “Buckwild.”

“Buckwild” is about a bunch of MTV-target-audience aged BFF’s doing MTV docu-series-ish things. Think “Jersey Shore.”

“As a U.S. Senator, I am repulsed at this business venture, where some Americans are making money off of the poor decisions of our youth,” Manchin wrote, after seeing only previews of the show – not an actual episode. Because, U.S. Senators don’t have time to do that much homework.

L.A. Reid, Demi Lovato, Simon Cowell and Britney Spears. (Ray Mickshaw - Fox)

By the time this hour of “The X Factor” is over, two acts will go home and four will go on to the semi-finals next week -- and we will have heard performances from last year’s X-Victor, Melanie Amaro, as well as the superstar known as Ke$ha.

Anything distinctive we remember about Melanie from last fall’s competition has been expunged as she performs her new single, “Long Distance.” She performs half the song while standing on top of a tall pillar.

Next, a Japanese electronics company pays a lot of money to have the X-testants show off its new line of headphones. That’s followed by Chief Product Placer Simon Cowell telling us that he “was involved with the design” of the headphones and thinks they are the best in the world, meaning they expand to accommodate even the most swollen of heads.

CBS will deploy its utility comedy “Rules of Engagement” in canceled freshman comedy “Partners” timeslot, Mondays at 8:30 p.m. starting Feb. 4, while the future of its other new comedy “Friend Me” is still up in the air following the October death of one of its creators.

New CBS drama “Golden Boy” (David M. Russell - CBS) Meanwhile, new cop drama “Golden Boy” is getting canceled “Made in Jersey’s” Fridays at 9 p.m. timeslot, starting March 8, after getting warmed up with two Tuesday outings in “Vegas’s” 10 p.m. timeslot, where it will have the lead-in power of the “NCIS” franchise at its back, on Feb. 26 and March 5. “Vegas” returns March 12.