Comfort Fedoke will dance another day. The “So You Think You Can Dance” contestant may have been eliminated last week, but she’s been invited into the top 10 after it was announced Monday at the TV Critics Press tour that Jessica King has left the series due to an injury. Co-creator and judge Nigel Lithgoe said he could not reveal the extent of the injury or how it happened due to legal reasons, although the secrecy may have more to do with the ratings than the law. All will be told on Thursday’s show, Lithgoe said.
The panel discussion on this summer’s top-rated show also included a fox-trot performance from eliminated contestants Matt Dorame and Minnesotan Kourtni Lind.
In other news, Fox president Kevin Reilly said the two-hour “24” movie airing in November will set up the 2009 season. It will take place on the day the president is being sworn in.  Producers had originally cooked up an online series to bridge the wide gap between season six and seven, but Reilly said the idea was strong enough to make it a broadcast movie.

In other news, Minnesota’s Aaron Brown is back from Jordan. Saw him last night at a cocktail party right after his first reporting assignment for PBS’s “Wide Angle.” This longrunning doc series usually buys material. This is the first time they are doing a piece on their own. Brown sounded thrilled to be back on the reporting beat. “It’s great to have summer job,” he told me, referring to the fact that he teaches in Arizona the rest of the year. “Everyone should have one.”

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