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TV Bites: A Sopranos Credit War Erupts at CBS

· Last week, Movieline reviewed the trailer for CBS's upcoming cop drama Blue Bloods -- a preview snippet that opened with with the teaser... "From the executive producers of The Sopranos." While Blue Bloods' creators, Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, were executive producers on the HBO series, Sopranos creator David Chase took offense with the network's marketing. Vulture reports that Chase was unhappy that viewers might mistakenly assume that the Tom Selleck series was from the same person who birthed Tony Soprano, and that woulda been a problem. In response to a request by HBO lawyers, CBS removed the Sopranos credit from some promotional materials. [Vulture]

CBS is locked out of a CIA series, USA Network gets into the limo business, and more TV Bites after the jump.

· CBS and 20th Century Fox have reached a stalemate over CIA drama Chaos. The network allegedly wanted to pick up eight episodes of the series, which stars Freddy Rodriguez and Eric Close, but the studio is holding out for a larger order. [Deadline]

· If you were praying for a cable series about a start-up limo biz in Texas, you're in luck: USA Network has picked up the half-hour comedy Driven from Designing Women creator Linda Bloodworth. The project stars Ron White. [Deadline]

· Television Without Pity has some suggestions for the producers trying to reboot Charlie's Angels. [TWoP]

· Here's some useless trivia for the day: Vince Vaughn spent a night in the Seaside Heights house made popular by the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore. [TMZ]