Daily Link Roundup: The Best of the Rest

Snooki gets a makeover, Zooey Deschanel gets a role on a new HBO drama, Randy Jackson may have stolen the idea for America's Best Dance Crew, and the creator of MacGyver wants to stop the MacGruber movie from being made!

In TV News...

• Zooey Deschanel is set to star in a new HBO drama based on the book "I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie."
• Somebody gave Snooki a makeover and she actually looks pretty hot!
• You can watch the first four minutes of next week's House if you're into that kind of thing.
• InsideTV has a list of 10 Dysfunctional TV Families We'd Like to Adopt.
• Due to it's climbing ratings, ABC 's Castle will air on Sunday for the week of March 21st.
• This year's Lost premiere was up 12% this year from last.
• Jersey Shore's Snooki will be one of the first guests when Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show. She is flying out to LA next week to pre-tape a segment for March 3rd.
• Sarah Silverman talks about what's coming up in her new season in an interview with After Elton.
• The CW has greenlit three new shows that include starring roles for Hayden Panettiere and Tom Welling.
• Recaps of last night's Lost episode are all over the net today, but my favorite recap (for a few seasons now) is written by Dan Hopper of BWE.tv.
• The LA Times suggests that ABC may move The View to afternoons.
• People Magazine has targeted the Duggars on their latest cover, asking just how many kids are too much?
• Randy Jackson's been accused of stealing the idea for America's Best Dance Crew.
• Phil Harris, captain of the ship on Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch has come out of his coma.
• Oprah is going to have a reality show based on the last season of her talk show. Oprah overload much?

Around the Web...

• Good Blog came up with 15 books you must read in 2010.
• A preview of Ricky Gervais' new movie, Cemetary Junction, has surfaced online.
• Holy crap! The creator of MacGyver wants to stop the MacGruber movie from being made!
• In case you didn't already think Conan O'Brien was a hero, TMZ is reporting that he's been paying his staff's severance package out of his own pocket.
• Here are six men that Anna Kendrick should bring to the Oscars as her date instead of Adam Lambert.
• Best Week ever spent some time making the obvious jokes about Joey Fatone's abs (or lack there-of).
• Charlie Booker's TV News parody has become one of the top rated videos online.
• Vince Vaughn's appearance in the We Are the World remake was completely serious. Despite what it actually looked like.
• Unreality has a list of television characters that you should hate but love to root for.
• Cracked has the 12 most insane things that you can actually buy on the internet.