Daily Link Roundup: TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web
Conan O'Brien is going on tour, Betty White will officially host SNL, Chad Ochocinco gets his own Vh1 dating show, Elisha Cuthbert will star in a new ABC sitcom, Ed Helms and Jason Segel pair up for a stoner comedy.
[A fan conception of what the Betty White SNL photos would look like, made from a regular old photo. Image via Warming Glow.]
In TV News...
- Okay, it's officially official: Betty White will host Saturday Night Live on May 8th. The show will also feature Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.
- Conan O'Brien will indeed have a comedy tour, but you'd better get your tickets fast! He's also licensing the image that became synonymous with "I'm with Coco" on the internet.
- The CW has has announced two new reality shows: Shed to Wed, a weight-loss show about losing weight before getting married, and One Mass Dance where large groups of people get together and start dancing in front of an unsuspecting audience.
- The 9th episode of Lost will have six minutes of bonus footage.
- Mark Burnett's newest game show will air on ABC and will pit game show hosts against each other. It's going to be called Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host.
- Big Love's creators agree with the masses—they think the season was very soapy as well.
- Apparently, Bush and Cheney thought to use torturing because they watched a lot of 24.
- Cincinatti Begal (and Dancing With the Stars contestant) Chad Ochocinco will search for love in a new Vh1 reality dating show.
- Good news: Man Men's Bryan Batt has found work! Bad news: he'll guest-star on Ugly Betty, which will go off the air this spring.
- Nickelodeon has announced their fall line-up, if you're interested.
- Elisha Cuthbert will play the lead in ABC's Happy Endings, a comedy about a couple who breaks up at the altar.
- TCM will celebrate Clint Eastwood's 80th Birthday by airing 24-hours of his movies.
Around the Web...
- Ed Helms and Jason Segel have signed on to play in "Jeff Who Lives at Home," a stoner comedy about two brothers.
- Gross, people are actually paying $2500 to sleep in the Jersey Shore house.
- FilmDrunk has some unkind words about Corey Feldman's appearance on Larry King Live last night.
- TV Squad breaks down the odds of the new Celebrity Apprentice cast and who they think will win it all.
- Bill Gates has fallen to the #2 richest man in the world.
- Here's an easy way to insult people in Shakespearian language.
- T-Mobile's flashmob ad has won a TV ad award.
- Howard Stern defends and expands upon his mean stance about poor Gabourey Sidibe.
- Best Week Ever has the inside scoop on the revival of MTV's Unplugged.
- Now there's a map that shows you where people are using chatroulette from.
