What if you could watch all your favorite morning shows in easy to digest, five minute clips? Well, since most morning shows are basically the same (except for The Today Show, with its frantic need to fill four hours of programming with Al Roker) you'd probably say "No thanks, I'll find it on YouTube if anything happens."

But! AOL in its newest bid to remind users why they it's still relevant (tons of blogs, apparently) is unveiling its Morning Rush program on AOL Living.

Oh, and it all sounds so necessary:

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CNN's American Morning's ratings might be up 11 percent this year, but it's not exactly the breakout success story Jon Klein would like. Maybe that's because there's so little celebrity gossip? Or even a summer fashion special? While the morning show may not veer too far in that direction anytime soon, John Roberts, the Kenny Chesney fan and Dick Cheney hater who's about to celebrate one year on the program, insists the format will get "little looser, a little more accessible, and allow Kiran and I to draw on the experiences we've had as journalists, and convey that information to viewers."

And whenever American Morning does get its new executive producer, maybe that means Roberts will tell us all about his post-9/11 experience transferring from Canadian to U.S. citizenship, since his network's most vocal critic on that little subject of immigration seems to only care when it's Mexicans crossing the border.

We're hearing rumors item-planter Ben Sherwood, the former Good Morning America executive producer currently gunning for the same gig at The Early Show, is also pursuing the EP title at CNN's American Morning after the post was unceremoniously vacated by Ed Litvak. Who can confirm? Add details?

Just two weeks after dropping anvils on former boss Ed Litvak, ousted American Morning producer Chez Pazienza (fired for blogging), pictured, is suddenly his enemy's biographer.

It might have a little something to do with it being Litvak, who fired Pazienza, finding himself suddenly "resigning" from CNN under Jon Klein's infamous regime post-fallout.

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