Kevin Eubanks may not come back with The Tonight Show, the CW renews a ton of its shows, Adult Swim will extend its lineup to Primetime, American Idol will surprise its viewers by announcing part of their top 24 tonight, and more!

Today on her show, Ellen brought attention to the Hug-e-gram, a bizarre plush stick with Mickey-type hands on either end that provides its wearer with disembodied hugs.

The Way We Live Now: Up to expectations. We see the expectations, and we fulfill them, "being all that we can be," we tell ourselves, while in fact wallowing in the sordid, muddy, lowness. Of expectations.

Long Island University gave out its prestigious George Polk Awards today. Among the winners: the New York Times' David Rohde, 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, and the anonymous person who recorded the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan on a cellphone.

Lost is full of many mysteries, all perplexing paradoxes and symbolism. At last here is a video that boils the show down to its bare essence. This, dear uninitiated Lost-phobes, is what you've been missing all these years.

Here it is, the best news haiku of the day, as selected by Jim Behrle. Now bask, Topheel. Bask, bask, bask. Thanks to everyone who played.

"I'm a natural sceptic," a British-born web publisher says to explain his recent Tweets expressing doubt about the validity of the science behind climate change. Coincidentally, that's the same argument used by everyone who prefers conspiracy theories to science.

If no one's badgered you into reading Roger Ebert's interview in Esquire, let us be the first: It's really quite good. It's not easy reading about the film critic's struggle with thyroid cancer or his jaw surgery. But it's worthwhile.

Congratulations to itsnotabear for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, Meredith Vieira calls Kristi Yamaguchi a "hoochie," Rachael Ray will inspect your pee, the Olympic soundtrack is actually the Brisco County theme, Puppy Tweets, and The Bachelor gets alone time with each of his three remaining ladies.

We were so excited by the new Glee promo that's going to be on Entertainment Tonight! We love this show so, so much that we don't want it to ever get bad. Don't worry, Glee, we're here to help!

Any Lost fan knows that the show likes to start an episode with a close-up shot of a character's eye. Here are all of them, mashed up into one video.

The person who filmed the death of Iranian protester Neda Soltan has become the first anonymous recipient of a Polk Award. Only the Pulitzer Prize committee can preserve the journalism priesthood now, by screwing the National Enquirer. (Via)

[J. Woww, of the Connecticut Wowws, at Fashion Week today; image via Splash]

Of course, it's pretty weird. We did manage to spot some possible guest stars during the madness: Jack McBrayer, David Cross, and Zach Galifianakis. Season Five premieres Feburary 28th on Adult Swim.

In your tenuous Tuesday media column: people get fired for crazy reasons, reporters doubling as models, a talking head maybe getting a new job, and journalistic kayak fail.

This guy is either really stupid or just saw Teen Wolf for the first time, but he woke up one morning and thought car surfing would be a good idea. It was not.

It's down to the wire on The Bachelor, and everyone was yukking it up for the cameras. Fake crying, fake emotions, fake tits. The only real thing was Jake making out with the three remaining contestants for half the show.

Yahoo Finance has AP pumping out 500 often-crappy stories per day, says this update.

There's a heated turf war going on inside the New York Times over the iPad, pitting print die-hards against people focused on the Times' digital future. The outcome will determine pricing for some marquee content on Apple's tablet.