TV Bites: The Team Behind Jersey Shore Heads South, Gets 'Funny'

Also in this morning's TV Bites: George Clooney and Julianna Margulies will stage another ER reunion... the cast of Community loves Infiniti... Raging Bull, the TV series?... and more ahead.

· Oh, Jersey Shore -- the gift that keeps on giving in this late-summer news drought. Today comes word that Shore's creator, Sally Ann Salsano, is teaming with Comedy Central for a new "partygoing reality series" that will focus on the South. Wait: Comedy Central, reality television? Let's go to The Live Feed for some explanation. "Network sources said Salsano and the channel's executives realized that Jersey is only a couple of edits away from being a flat-out comedy." Stop being so modest, guys: if you need more than one edit to turn Jersey Shore into a flat-out comedy, you're doing it wrong. [THR/The Live Feed]

· Reunited and it feels so... pandering? Julianna Margulies will present her former ER lover George Clooney with his Bob Hope Humanitarian award on Sunday night's Emmy telecast. Also presenting on Sunday: Neil Patrick Harris and Betty White. Of course she is. [LAT/Gold Derby]

· And speaking of the Emmys: The cast Community will star in a series of ads for Infiniti during the telecast. Somewhere, Don Draper is pouring himself another glass of scotch. [THR]

· Big-time Hollywood producer Irwin Winkler -- the moneyman behind Raging Bull and Rocky among other iconic movies -- is looking to television. The Oscar-winner signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures TV, that will allow Winkler to pillage his incredible library of feature films for TV adaptation. First up: The Net, the 1995 Sandra Bullock film. Here's hoping that series adaptation of De-Lovely happens sooner rather than later. [Variety]

· NBC has delayed the premiere of its new Friday night makeover show, School Pride, to Oct. 15. Don't worry, we'll get through this together. [THR]