At Wednesday’s TCA conference in Los Angeles, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler announced that the network is “pretty close to closing our deal” with the singer.

“It’ll be a music variety sketch show,” Tassler said. “It’s being developed now.”

Pressed for specifics, Tassler added, “We’re looking at a couple of things.

“One is it’s sort of a pilot. It could be for a series of specials,” she said. “It could be just for a series. We’re just going to shoot the pilot now and see what we have and make a decision after that.”

The announcement comes months after web rumors began that Mayer has signed on to host a weekly variety show for CBS.

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Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer showed off a rare public display of affection, strolling arm-in-arm in New York City Thursday night.

Aniston, 39, smiled as she snuggled up to Mayer, 31, as he greeted photographers. The two — who wore matching black jackets and jeans — then dashed into La Esquina, where Kelly Ripa was also dining with husband Mark Consuelos.

While walking, he plugged her new movie Marley & Me.

“I’m happy to report the movie is completely in focus,” he told photographers as Aniston laughed. “I want everyone to know that.”

Then he joked that he and Aniston were walking all the way to Harlem.

“90 more blocks, guys!” he teased photographers. “90 more blocks!”

On Wednesday, Aniston told David Letterman that she met Mayer at a Hollywood party thrown by CAA agent Bryan Lourd.

“He was lovely on your show,” she also said of Mayer’s Thanksgiving performance, calling it “beautiful. It really kicked off the holiday sprit.”

In January’s GQ, Aniston said she and Mayer “care deeply for each other, and we’re just trying to figure it out.”

Aniston also said in December’s Vogue that people need to “mind their own business” when it comes to their relationship.

“Did you ever think Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield made sense?” she said. “Love just shows up.”

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Pictured: Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Jennifer’s boyfriend – John Mayer, Courteney Cox, Katherine Heigl and husband and T.R. Knight.

What do you think of Jessica Alba’s bangs? Me no like.

Pictured: Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Elijah Wood, Alicia Keys & Queen Latifah!

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John Mayer was having a good time on the red carpet at Alicia Keys’ Annual Keep a Child Alive Black Ball Thursday night. Must be because somebody’s got his back.

He started off the night by playfully grabbing the microphone of a reporter from the Tyra Banks Show to announce his own “talk show is going to be called John!”

And while the singer may be joking about his next career move, he had some serious words about girlfriend Jennifer Aniston. “It’s really nice to have somebody in life have your back,” Mayer told PEOPLE. “That girl knows me … so whether I go to bed alone or not, to have somebody who knows you in this world, that’s a really nice thing.”

So is there any chance that Mayer will follow in Aniston’s footsteps and star on a television show? “There are rumors,” Mayer admitted. “I’m going to keep them rumors for the time being. I want everything to be as baked as possible before it comes out of the oven.”

If Mayer were to have a show, he said, “it would be nice to go back to a form of entertainment that doesn’t involve judging and criticizing. I’d like to entertain people with their phones down. It’s time to watch TV and be entertained by great artists without having to have a say in it.”

Entertain he did! Mayer got into a friendly bidding war with Queen Latifah over a lithograph during a live auction at the benefit. Fortunately, the charity was the big winner. There was an identical lithograph available so each star paid $100,000.

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Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer out together for dinner, leaving separately from the restaurant then meeting up at Goldbar Club. They later left together and headed back to their hotel in New York City.

Did any of you see Jennifer on Oprah yesterday?  Man, could she be any more beautiful?! She’s just stunning in real life!

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