Daily Link Roundup: The Best of the Rest

Watch Ricky Gervais' new show before it premieres, The Tonight Show staff is dropping like flies, Snooki's trademarking her name, Paula Deen may appear on American Idol, Sarah Silverman gets a soundtrack and more.

In TV News...

• You can stream the first 3 episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show online before it premieres on Friday.
• 8 possible replacements for Kevin Eubanks on The Tonight Show.
• Jay's announcer, John Melendez won't return to The Tonight Show.
• The Sarah Silverman Show will get its own soundtrack.
• Freaks and Geeks director Paul Feig will team up with Judd Apatow for a wedding comedy starring Kristen Wiig.
• Photos of a model for the set for this year's Oscars have been leaked—if you're into that kind of thing.
• This week marks Judge Judy's 700th week as the top rated court show.
• The Tonight Show has a new logo.
• The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels is getting sued over her hawking of diet pills.
• Snooki, of Jersey Shore fame, is looking to trademark her name.
• Movieline has already decided the fates of the 7 announced American Idol contestants.
• Law & Order: SVU is about to get saucy: Kathy Griffin says her character will make out with Mariska Hargitay.
• Lisa Kudrow thinks that NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? will bring "quality programming" back to TV.
• Paula Deen is in negotiations to appear—in some capacity—on American Idol.
• Tory Burch will be a guest judge on Project Runway at some point this season.

Around the Web...

• European movie theaters are threatening to boycott Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland because the DVD is set to be released three months after it's theater run.
• There's a 3D movie in the works about Erector Sets.
• Here's Dan Hopper's hilarious weekly review of Lost.
• New changes are coming for Best Song nominees at the Oscars.
• Who cares, you're still trashy: Snooki and JWOWW revealed that they aren't actually Italian.
• Whitney Port is reportedly dating fellow MTV star Ben Nemtin from THe Buried Life.