Daily Link Roundup: The Best of the Rest

Last Call with Carson Daly is coming back with a new producer, Spike TV will make a golf-centric show about a sex-addict named Tiger, Tina Fey might get back in her Sarah Palin costume on SNL, and more!

In TV News...

• Last night's Olympics coverage finally beat out American Idol's six-year streak winning the timeslot.
• Hey, Carson Daly fans! Last Call is still alive and is getting a new producer. His name is Stewart Baileyand was a producer for The Daily Show for 10 years.
• SpikeTV, always classy, is creating a golf-themed show modeled after Tiger Woods.
• John Hughes will get a special tribute at this year's Oscars.
• Johnny Weir uses Lemon Pledge to release tension. There's got to be a sex joke in there...
• Brooke Burke may be the next host of Dancing With the Stars.
• It's rumored that Tina Fey will host SNL in April and that she'll reprise her Sarah Palin role.
• This season's Real World house is being eyed to be made into a restaurant. Are they planning to serve herpes as a side dish?
• The CW has picked up a show called Nomads, an action show starring Ridley Scott.
• The CW is also developing a celebrity trainer reality series with Tracy Anderson, Madonna's former personal trainer. If all contestant's get Madonna-like arms, I'm in!

Around the Web...

• Here's a cool list of 7 things that Back to the Future guessed correctly.
• An important aside about the Olympics.
• HBO Go has launched—has anyone actually checked it out yet?
• Joss Whedon and Morgan Spurlock will unite to make a documentary about Comic Con.
• Slate asks just how sappy are the Olympics?
• GLAAD will honor Wanda Sykes and Drew Barrymore.
• Urlesque has footage of a six-month-old walking baby.