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Morning Meme: "Futurama" Is Reborn, a "Sex and the City 2" Wedding, and Richard Dreyfuss' "Jaws" Reprise.

Plus, Will Emeril replace LuRe, the Glee-bashing begins, Neil Patrick Harris needs a little powder, Beautiful People returns, and David Sedaris to the big screen!

CBS has three pilots in contention for As the World Turn’s timeslot. We previously mentioned the ripoff of The View starring Sarah Gilbert (who’s producing, so big chance for her) and Julie Chen. Also a reboot of Pyramid, and now a cooking competition show hosted by Emeril Lagasse. We should know in the next couple weeks.

The second season of Being Human, starring Russell Tovey’s ears and featuring gay vampires in a subplot, will hit BBC America July 24th.

Craig Kilborn, who made a gay joke so foul when hosting The Daily Show I almost wouldn't watch it once he was gone, is being given a shot at a talker by Fox. They’ll test it in the 7pm hour in New York and Los Angeles over the summer, and take it wide if it works.

I’ll be the first to admit that Glee makes no sense. They dropped so many plot points between the first half and the back end of the season it’s not even the same show. It doesn’t affect my enjoyment of the program though. Over at The Atlantic, they’re not so forgiving. I’m still not sure what their point is about Mercedes singing “Beautiful” because it seems to contradict their entire paragraph.

Richard Dreyfuss reprised his role from Jaws as ichthyologist Matt Hooper in Piranha 3D for one reason – the money. Don’t think he needs it for himself though, because it’s all about Harvey Weinstein writing a big check for a civics education foundation Dreyfus was starting. Maybe not everyone in Hollywood is evil.

The David Sedaris short story “C.O.G.” from the book Naked is being adapted into a screenplay by the director of Easier With Practice, Kyle Patrick Alvarez.

Neil Patrick Harris was originally disappointed he was cast in Smurfs but had to play a modern human. Now that he’s seen Hank Azaria spend 2.5 hours every day in the makeup chair becoming Gargamel, he’s thrilled with his role. The irritating part is that he says he looks that good with just a little powder.

After all the issues we’ve had with Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh, you must excuse me while I do a happy dance that the money-losing publication is up for sale. Dead trees just don’t bring in the dollars these days, and neither does homophobia.

The “Witty and Glittery” Beautiful People is coming back to Logo with new episodes starting June 12th at 10pm on Logo. It’s one of my favorite shows that the mothership has ever aired.

Something that bills itself as "June 2010 Vanity Fair/CBS News Poll" says that CNN is the “most trusted name in news over Fox." How they traveled ahead in time to June to take the survey I have no idea, but I can’t wait to see how CNN improves over the next month.

Alice In Wonderland has bumped The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers out of the Top Ten films of all time. 3D ticket prices probably did hurt, but still, $928.9 million is nothing to sneeze at.

Can you get a tax deduction for donating rare erotica to the Museum of Sex, a for-profit museum? Evidently, thanks to the magic of the U.S. Tax Code and a sneaky museum, you can.

The best part about most Tony nominees is that they give their reactions to a nomination without three layers of publicists crafting it. Reading these made me appreciate most of the actors up for awards.

Via some serious detective work by Crawfish Po Boy, we can confirm that this is Jake Gyllenhaal on the couch with Adam Lambert backstage at a taping for Jonathan Ross. We can also confirm that the Twitter account that hijacked the photo and created the most seamless fake Jake Gyllenhaal wasn't Jake, at least according to Jonathan Ross who screamed "Fake!" multiple times at the perpertrator.

Still, that was the cutest couch in London for an hour.

The publicist for Sex and the City 2 sent over more demonstrations of Adobe Photoshop 5 from the movie.

Kim Cattrall didn't look this young in the television series.

Awww! What a gorgeous groom!

Dear Hollywood powers-that-be: Please cease all work on any movies modeled on board games (except Candyland). Also, abandon plans for any Die Hard sequels. Make this happen instead. kthxbye.

I'd even settle for a SyFy implementation.

From the Kiwi channel that carries Man vs. Wild, we have a fairly impressive ad for the show. It was actually part of a series, but this was the only one that didn't make me ill.

I can totally see him eating the ingredients, but he'd never manage the presentation.

Bored cheetah is bored.

Could you bite the head off of this?

Either this didn't end, or an alliance was struck, and we're all doomed.

Futurama is back June 24th, and every day until then they're leaking something from the new season. Also, Hypnotoad is taking viewer questions.

They call this "Rebirth."

I think I mentioned yesterday that a Picasso had sold for a record $106.5 million, and the ladies of The View attempted to talk about it but were thawrted by ABC legal. Thanks to AOL we have that clip in the live, east coast feed. Whoopi is not happy.

Todd Alcott's Television speaks to me. You need to focus on the imagery even though his poetry distracts. Or maybe it was the television playing while I was watching.

I'm not really going to focus on the whole Glenn-Beck-crazy-rant against Woodrow Wilson creating Mother's day or whatever he's saying. That's par for the course. What I want to know is what company would pay to have him read their ad live on his radio show if this is what they get? I feel sorry for the Teddy Bears!

Tyra decided to make her audience think she had rabies for some reason. I think she just wanted to prove that she was crazier than Glenn Beck.

Despicable Me made a promo for the World Cup. It has the minions in it, so of course I had to publish. Deal with it. Film doesn't come out until July.

Here's a viral trailer for RumpleDeals.com to promote Shrek Forever After. Is it just me, or is there just a touch of "Fey Movie Villain" in the delivery?

I've been looking for a live performance of Melissa Etheridge's new song for a week - Good Morning America never put the song up, just the interview. But my girl Ellen has got our back - here's "Fearless Love."


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