So that thing you loved on Friday? Happy Monday — it's probably fake.

Christopher Guest's new TV series Family Tree, which premiered last night on HBO, is similar to but less pointed than his best known works. Starting with 1996's Waiting for Guffman, the director-actor has orchestrated a string of improvised farces in a mostly pseudo-documentary format that roast specific, unexamined cultures: Midwestern community theater geeks (Guffman), dog-show people (Best in Show), folk singers and their groupies (A Mighty Wind) and indie actors with Oscar buzz (For Your Consideration). Repeatedly, you get the feeling that Guest thinks he is smarter than the people that he and his repertory hypothesize, but these characters feel so lived-in that they are endearing regardless. Their doofiness is an asset for everyone involved, at least until they're punished for it in Guest's characteristically dark codas of dashed dreams and ruined lives.

On Sunday, NBC stunned no one by announcing Jimmy Fallon's eventual Late Night replacement: long-time Saturday Night Live head writer (and current Weekend Update anchor) Seth Meyers. The stunning part happened next, on the network's official Twitter handle.

The shooting of nineteen innocent people, including two children, at a Mother's Day celebration in New Orleans yesterday was an act of violence only gaudy enough to hold the nation's attention momentarily. Shortly after the bodies were cleared, the FBI said they "have no indication the shooting was an act of terrorism. 'It’s strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans.'" At that, we were free to let our attention drift. In America, all villainy is not created equal.

An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles en route to JFK was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after an unruly passenger was deemed a threat to the crew for refusing to stop singing Whitney Houston songs.

ABC will become the first major broadcaster to allow some cable and satellite subscribers to live-stream its programming via its iPhone and iPad app. Have you started using your TV as a drying rack yet?

Nine people, including two children, have died in a car bombing in Benghazi, the second-largest city in Libya, and the site of the fall 2012 attacks on the American embassy.

BBC Radio Stoke host Paula White, who has filled the station's afternoon slot with "guests, chat and outlook on life" for the past six years, was unceremoniously pulled off the air during her final program over concerns she was drunk on the job.

O.J. Simpson will try to have a 33-year sentence vacated and a new trial ordered, during hearings that are beginning this week in Las Vegas.

Police who arrived at the home of a Illinois man to investigate claims of battery and attempted indecent solicitation of a child ended up tacking on an additional charge: Sexual abuse of a pet peacock.

"Fanatic Harassment Specialist" Brick Stone (AKA comedian Dave Sirus) has spent the better part of his career following the Wesboro Baptist Church from troll-protest to troll-protest, annoying the bejesus out of them.

Onil and Pedro Castro, the brothers of Ariel Castro, the man charged with kidnapping and abusing three Cleveland-area women, were not aware that their brother was holding the three women hostage. They now believe he's "a monster."

FBI agents were called to the Michigan home of a Saudi student who was spotted walking around with a pressure cooker — only to learn that he was using it to bring food to his friend's house.

Brooklyn, writes the hip hop authority New York Times, "gave birth to an explosion of hip hop" in the 1980s and 90s—"like KRS-One and Gang Starr," who are from the Bronx and Boston, respectively.

"When push comes to shove, whose gonna win?" The bulldozer.

Police are looking for three suspects who were seen to be fleeing the scene of a shooting that left 19 injured, including two children, yesterday afternoon.

The trailer for the fourth season of Arrested Development is finally here. Not that the show has been lacking hype; in just the last week alone, Netflix announced plans to set up Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stands in select cities, and a quote from the show was used as an insult in the Canadian House of Commons.

Monday morning on The View, Barbara Walters will announce that she's officially retiring from journalism next summer.

Vivian Schronce, an 80-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother, had just returned to her home in Gaston County, North Carolina from Sunday morning church service when she was shot and killed, allegedly by her 88-year-old roommate, Charles Edwin Venn

A deadly new strain of coronavirus, a SARS-like respiratory virus, has now spread to France, where it has infected at least two people. But it gets even more exciting. After the French health ministry's confirmation of the second infection, the World Health Organization announced that it's likely that the virus can be passed person-to-person.