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Election day, non?: Looking for a change of pace for watching election news? You can watch them in French on TV5 USA, a French-language outlet available in much of the United States on cable and satellite. It will offer election coverage from 1:30 to 9:30 p.m. PST today.

TV renewal: ABC has picked up freshman reality series “Wife Swap” for the full season, including two potential spinoff episodes, “Husband Swap” and “Boss Swap.”

More honors: Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, has been awarded a prestigious Czech literary prize. Jelinek, absent from the ceremony at Prague’s City Hall on Monday, was awarded the annual Franz Kafka Prize for her literary work.