Diddy demands an SNL sketch with Robert De Niro, Katie Couric will guest on Glee, first photos of The Onion's Sports Dome!, and IFC picks up The Larry Sanders Show, Action, The Ben Stiller Show and Mr. Show.


Coming soon: WALL-E's silent plea for help on Hoarders. [Tragic Sunshine]

In TV News...

  • Steve Carrell will stick with NBC after he leaves The Office—hell write the script for what's tentatively titled The Post-Graduate Project. Deadline calls it "sweet and nostalgic take on the period of Carell's early life as a mail carrier and centers on a small-town post office frequented by a quirky but tight-knit group of local twentysomethings." [Deadline]
  • VH1 is casting "plus-sized party girls" for a reality pilot that sounds an awful lot like The Bad Girls Club—with a few extra pounds. [Jezebel]
  • Check out the first images of The Onion's Sports Dome!, beginning Tuesday, January 11 on Comedy Central. [Comedy Central Insider]
  • IFC is continuing their pattern of picking up awesome shows that are now off the air and will begin running The Larry Sanders Show, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show and Action in a block beginning in January. [Deadline]
  • Katie Couric will make a cameo on Glee. [NY Post]
  • Did you see the one where Diddy demanded the SNL staff to write him into a sketch with Robert De Niro? ~Delusions of Grandeur~, my friend. There's a reason you're the musical guest and not the host... [Splitsider]
  • Kara DioGuardi is penning a book called "A Helluva High Note: Surviving Life, Love, and American Idol." [TV Guide]
  • Nelly will appear as himself on 90210. Characters on the show will become involved in a music video shoot for the song "She's So Fly." [Movieline]
  • Who will die in this week's finale of Boardwalk Empire? Here are the odds. [Vulture]
  • Just in case you wanted to get a little more in-depth with last night's America's Next Top Model finale, check out this review. [The Fashion Spot]
  • You can watch Bill Murray present the Lifetime Achievement Gotham Award to Robert Duvall online. [Vulture]
  • MTV has banned 30 Seconds to Mars' (aka Jared Leto's band) new music video. [Spin]

Around the Web...

  • Here's the complete list of all the Grammy nominees. [Grammy.com]
  • TV Guide is being criticized for possibly lightening up Padma Lakishmi's skin color on the cover of their magazine. [Divanee]
  • Entertainment Weekly announced their 2010 "Entertainers of the Year." Both Taylor Swift and Rico Rodriguez got their own covers. [Pop Culture Brain]
  • Just thought you might all want to know that Chuck Norris has become an actual Texas Ranger. Honorary, but still! [LA Times]
  • Tumblr-follow of the day: Fake Criterions. It's a blog that attempts to "expand upon the great catalogue of Criterion releases." [Fake Criterions]
  • Michael Cera will join Mister Heavenly as the band's bassist during the band's West Coast tour with Passion Pit. Sooo hip! [Pitchfork]
  • Finally, American cities have been ranked by penis size. Spoiler alert: New Orleans came in #1. [Thought Catalog]
  • Here's a list of the most-pirated movie and TV shows online. [The Hollywood Reporter]
  • Here's the tale of a Redditor whose girlfriend was cheating on him, so he got back at her in a passive aggressive way for the movie nerds out there: by ranking her Netflix queue until he got the message that he wanted. [Reddit]