Meredith Vieira's departure from 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM on NBC) has been planned since at least the beginning of May, when she officially announced she was leaving the show after five years as host. But that didn't make it any easier for Vieira and the gang Wednesday as she signed off on her final show. She choked up as she watched a compilation of clips from her time on 'Today.'

"It's hard to leave your other family, and that's what I'm doing," she said over clips of her interviewing celebrities like Russell Brand and Jerry Seinfeld and taking part in crazy stunts like riding down a hill in a giant bubble. "It's so humbling about the power of this show to really reach people, and it's such a blessing to have had that ability," she said after the retrospective, fighting back tears. "I am so honored to have sat with all of you."

Then things got even more emotional, as everyone reached in and held hands, and Vieira gave Matt Lauer a farewell kiss on the cheek.

I haven't been as interested in The Real Housewives of Orange County this season, and now I'm about to check out permanently. My favorite wife has left the show. Jeana Keough said an on screen "adios" to the Real Housewives of Orange County. She's not actually moving, but she's off the show by choice.

Jeana Keough has always impressed me as the smartest, most normal and down-to-earth housewife of the bunch. She had a completely insane marriage to Matt Keough, an ex-Major League Baseball pitcher for the Oakland A's, but she worked to keep it together. Her kids were a handful.

They were all grown up and in high school or post-high school life, but Jeana was supportive and interested and tried to be a positive role model. In her finale, she was able to show her kids pursuing their lives and bringing her pride. I think Jeana's "pal" Vicki Gunvalson wishes her children were as loving to her as Jeana's are to her.

(S01E22) I've been wondering all week how Aaron Sorkin would send his final F-U to the NBC brass. I mean when this episode was made, the writing was very clearly on the wall: Studio 60 was dead in the water. So, the question is, if you're a writer/producer with nearly unlimited power regarding the production of a newly canceled show, what do you do in the last episode to turn a big fat middle finger up at the network who canceled you? Do you end on an unresolvable cliff-hanger? Do you turn in a sub-par episode? Do you break down all pretense of the fourth-wall and cancel the show within the show?

What do you do? How do you really stick it to NBC?