SNL has at last decided to comment on the cultural phenomenon that is Dateline Bill Hader, playing host Keith Morrison, oversaw a typical “Dateline” episode, ushering in segments like “The Mystery of the Chopped Up Dead Guy.” A be-mulleted Steve Buscemi played the murderer, and Kristen Wiig appeared as his, uh, beautiful and long-suffering wife. More important than the crime, however, was how stoked Keith Morrison was about all of this murdering! Dude was not shy about how much dead people excite him, even going so far as to bring a tub of popcorn into his interview with Wiig.

Dateline NBC is getting itself a new host: When the show begins its new season on September 23rd, Lester Holt will officially replace Ann Curry, who is also juggling her a.m. co-hosting duties on the Today show. Holt isn’t at a loss for work himself, as he’s often seen on NBC and MSNBC. Like, really [...]

NBC News doesn’t have a start date or a name for its new prime-time news show to be led by Nightly News Brian Williams, but it does have an executive producer, as of today. Rome Hartman, who helped create the BBC’s American flagship newscast, BBC World News America, has signed on with NBC in an announcement from the network today. ”

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt got a boost from WikiLeaks. In an interview with the Australian program Dateline, Assange says “material that we published through a Lebanese newspaper was significantly influential to what happened in Tunisia,” and Tunisia led directly to Egypt. “Then there’s no doubt that Tunisia was THE example for Egypt, and Yemen and Jordan and all the protests that have happened there.”

ABC’s Good Morning America weekend anchor Kate Snow is leaving the network and joining NBC. The news was first reported by TVNewser.

It is the latest change at Good Morning America since Diane Sawyer left to become World News anchor.

Americans for Limited Government and NBC News have found themselves in a little he said–she said over an email from Dateline producer Jane Stone in response to some ALG media outreach. Do accusations that Stone wrote a message reading ‘Bite me Jew Boy’ from her Blackberry hold water? Or is ALG just desperate for buzz?