Some official movement on The Early Show front: Zev Shalev joins the show today as senior producer. Meanwhile, no word yet on the fate of executive producer hopeful Ben Sherwood (pictured), who, we're told, resigned from his post at Good Morning America before he could be fired, leaving a tidy severance package on the table to avoid industry ridicule.

Why the ouster? Not only were ratings an issue, but apparently some folks had problems with his nepotism. Rumor has it Sherwood secured on-air promotion for porn doc Inside Deep Throat, which just happened to produced by wife Karen Kehela's Imagine Entertainment, the studio founded by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.

Meanwhile, reports a spy, Sherwood dined at Tribeca's Blaue Gans over the weekend with a large group when, supposedly, a former GMA staffer accosted him in front of his party and "gave Ben quite a piece of his mind." And what's this about the incriminating emails of Ben's that the employee saved?