Report: Ferguson planning new talk show; Vargas back in rehab

NEW YORK -- Craig Ferguson is close to a deal to launch an early-evening talk show starting in fall 2015. The outgoing host of CBS' "The Late Late Show" would introduce his half-hour syndicated series on stations in a slot just before prime time, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. * * * LOS ANGELES -- ABC News reporter Elizabeth Vargas has returned to a recovery center to be treated for alcohol dependency. The "20/20" co-anchor said in an emailed statement that she checked into a treatment facility last weekend. "I feel I have let myself, my co-workers and most importantly my family down and for that I am ashamed and sorry," she wrote. Vargas spent several weeks in a treatment facility last fall.