Morning Meme: Betty White Plays a Pothead, Google Owns Us All, and Hover Cat Is Coming To Get You All!

Stick with me on this one: Enver Gjokaj, who was the best and hottest part of Dollhouse, is launching a new webseries called Previously on Point Dume. It’s being described as Twin Peaks meets Clue, and has some serious camp. Then there’s this little nugget:

Gjokaj plays the "Lothario landscapist," Ron, as well as Ron's nemesis/doppleganger, Bron. And indeed, he never wears a shirt, and the first segment includes full-on Enver-on-Enver action. "They're kind of like enemies-slash-weirdly attracted to each other, because thye're both complete egomaniacs," explains Gjokaj. "We've got some bizarre things planned."

CBS Films showed a few pieces at ShoWest, and everyone yawned. Then they showed the upcoming Beastly, with Alex Pettyfer, Neil Patrick Harris, and Vanessa Hudgens, and the crowd of seen-it-all executives went nuts. I do believe our Gay of the Decade is a movie star now.

I mostly disagree that anything on this list of 80s cartoons needs to be made into a feature film (ducks as snicks throws new-in-box GoBot at my head). But I do think their fantasy casting for Hulk Hogan’s Rockin’ Wrestling is spot on.

As is required of all thing Minogue, Joe.MyGod is reporting that Kylie is going to host the New York City amFAR Benefit on June 3^rd. Get tickets if you’re rich.

Is CNN dunzo? Christiane Amanpour is moving over to ABC News to host This Week on Sunday mornings. She’s been on CNN almost as long as I can remember. But she’s definitely got the brains and the global perspective to host This Week.

All the major networks have rejected Sarah Palin’s reality show. While cable networks like Discovery still have an interest, it’s unknown if they can afford to fork over the $1.5 million/episode she wants. No, she didn’t quit on Alaska for a money grab. Nope. Not at all.

A disgruntled auto salesman hacked into a dealership’s computer system and triggered the remote kill switches on over 100 cars. They caught him, but this is just going to happen more and more now that everything everywhere is connected. Well, until Skynet kills us all.

Bedrock Studios has launched to deliver “family friendly fare.” In this case, I don’t think they mean anti-gay, I think they mean cartoons. They’re starting out with something called Turkeys starring Woody Harrelson and the Wilson brothers. I hope that title doesn’t prove prophetic.

The BBC was live from the red carpet for the premiere of Doctor Who starring Matt Smith. They interviewed him on stepping into the role, his favorite moments, and most importantly showed about 45 seconds of video from the upcoming first episode.

I know the Internet is the Land of Snark, but I’m really getting sick of the nonstop negative attitude over at TVbytheNumbers on the subject of Southland. John Wells is launching a new series, and he cast Skeet Ulrich in it. That doesn’t mean John Wells is trying to get “stink of the Southland experience at NBC off him fast enough.”

Disney has a deal for Vinylmation collectables, and while these have never been my thing, I might have to find a way to get get the Muppet Series 1. The Vinylmation Muppets Series 1 includes Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Rowlf the Dog, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Rizzo the Rat, The Swedish Chef, Sweetums, Statler and Waldorf, Bean Bunny and a 55th Anniversary tuxedo wearing Kermit the Frog figure.

Who wants to buy me this for Easter?

This Lady GaGa portrait is entirely edible. Jellies, licorice, etc.

I ran a piece yesterday about the Top Animals in Internet Memes. Suddenly Hover Cat started appearing out of nowhere, and seems poised to take the top spot soon. 

First he was alone.

Then it began to look like an invasion.

Google is the answer to absolutely everything, now and forever.

Aren't kids cute?

Here's the first preview for Betty White (and a bunch of other women who don't matter when Betty's onscreen) in TV Land's Hot In Cleveland. I have to admit, this looks like it could be fun. I think Wendy Malick is basically playing herself, while Valerie Bertenelli is playing a rich version of the character she always plays. Betty shines bright here.

In case you haven't been paying as much attention as the Stormtroopers above were, Google is taking over the world. They've also developed a settop box to replace your Tivo, and your cable company. But exactly what else are they doing?

OK, I despise Will Ferrell's humor. He thinks he's funny, but he's way too old for the schitck he's still trying to pass on. So I was prepared to hate Megamind, his new animated flic with Brad Pitt and half of Hollywood. But this teaser trailer looks funny.

I'm not big on psychologocial thrillers, but In My Sleep caught my eye, and various other parts of my anatomy, because Philip Winchester seems to spend the whole movie doing things in his sleep, and he sleeps in sexy, colorful, tight trunks. Did I mention how built he is?  You may rewind this and watch more than once. It's like an Aussiebum ad with murder.