Daily Link Roundup: TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web
Fringe has been picked up for third season, photos of drunken celebs at last night's Oscar after-parties, Zach Morris is on TV once again, catching up on the Independent Spirit Awards, and Betty White will (really!) host SNL.
[Zach Galifianakis tells us what he really thinks about CNN's The Situation Room on Saturday's episode of SNL. Watch the sketch here. Image via inothernews on tumblr.]
In TV News...
- Last night's Oscars were the most-watched in five years.
Zach MorrisMark Paul Gosselaar will grace our televisions once again on TBS's comedy pilot, Franklin & Bash. He'll star opposite Breckin Meyer.- J.J. Abram's Fringe has been picked up for a third season.
- Scott Foley has joined the cast of True Blue, alongside Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz. He'll play the assistant DA in the ABC cop drama.
- Jesse Plemons, aka Landry, won't be back for the final season of Friday Night Lights.
- Rob Thomas, producer of Party Down, shares his thoughts on Adam Scott's departure.
- Kathy Bates is in final negotiations to play a lawyer in David E. Kelley's legal drama pilot for NBC. What does this mean for her role on The Office?
- Tom Bergeron will get a new co-host Dancing With the Stars by the name of Brooke Burke.
- A new channel, Nat Geo Wild, will appear on some cable providers as early as March 29th. It will showcase programs about natural history such as giant octopi and oversized cats.
- Betty White says that she will indeed host Saturday Night Live before the season is over.
- A man is claiming that The Doctors tricked him into getting penis surgery.
- NBC has denied that a laugh track was added to Sarah Palin's Tonight Show monologue.
- NBC will show the Miss Universe Pageant for three more years.
- This is pretty funny: the "Jay Leno is the Future of Television" cover of Time Magazine was it's worst-selling cover of 2009.
Around the Web...
- If you missed the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend, you can catch up at their website, which has a ton of clips of all the action.
- I had no idea that Bruce Vilanch has been a writer for the Oscars for 21 years!
- Best Week Ever asks us who got drunkest after the Oscars? I'd have guessed Jeff Bridges but these photos suggest otherwise...
- TV Squad's "morning-after" list of Oscar observations.
- What was up with the Farrah Fawcett snub during the Oscars' "In Memoriam" segment?
- Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland did a bang-up job at the box office this past weekend: it grossed over 116 million dollars.
- You can read all of the Oscars winners and losers over at IMDb.
- Urlesque has a very weird and random collection of the craziest finger puppets on etsy.
- Conan O'Brien is selling his New York City apartment.
- Do yourself a favor and check out fourfour's recap of the Oscars and bask in all of the funny gifs.
