Morning Meme: Matt Doyle's "Gossip Girl" Return, Matt Bomer Frequently Shirtless, and "Catch VD"

ABC announced a stack of pilots today. Work It is disturbing, almost a Bosom Buddies reboot about a couple guys who get laid off and dress up as women to get jobs as pharmaceutical reps. But they love their boy's night once a week wearing pants. Ugh. Did they learn nothing from Jake Gyllenhaal? They also greenlit a pilot about Edgar Allen Poe as “the world’s very first detective.” I wish I was joking.

Speaking of pilots, McG may direct the Wonder Woman pilot. At least the soundtrack will be awesome.

Naomi Watts has joined J. Edgar as Helen Gandy, Hoover's loyal secretary of 54 years. After his death, she is credited with destroying mountains of incriminating evidence, both on Hoover's life and on the people he blackmailed.

Daily Mail. Homophobic article. I feel like I’ve written this before. This paper makes Glenn Beck look reasonable.

Rafael Nadal with baby penguins. He’s preparing an animal army to attack snicks’ Federbear.

Nancy Grace is being sued by someone who claims they represented her as she got her new show, then got frozen out. I’ll be honest, Grace is one of the most grating people on the planet to me, and it would amuse me if she lost this case.

Is Barney Stinson getting a new hot girlfriend on How I Met Your Mother? What’s that sound? Ramin Setoodeh speed dialing CNN to get airtime about how it’s not believable, important, or it proves his point that he hasn’t made?

Hawaii advanced a bill for civil unions out of committee, and if they manage to pass it, the governor has pledged to sign it. And in Maryland, the marriage bill was introduced. But in Wyoming, they’ve advanced two bills, one to ban marriage equality and one to ban recognition of marriages performed elsewhere.

A car salesman in Chicago was fired for failing to remove a Packers tie. He said it was worn in memory of his recently deceased mother, a huge Packers fan. The dealership says they had invested money in a Bears-centric advertising campaign that conflicted with the man’s neckwear.

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura is suing the TSA for unreasonable search for a patdown at the airport. On the one hand, he’s a little nuts. On the other hand, in this case he’s a little right.

Father Cutie is getting his own daytime talk show. Who didn’t see that coming?

It Gets Better is now a book. How retro!

The Fantastic Four is becoming the Terrific Three. Who will be snuffed out?

Sir Elton John says that he would love to be on Glee, but nobody’s asked him to be on Glee, and he can’t just crash the set. While I’d love to see some classic Elton songs on Glee, I’m over most of the stuntcasting.

A law firm is suing Taco Bell as a class action because they say their taco filling doesn’t meet the USDA definition of “beef.” And I still crave it after a hard night’s drinking.

Is Joe Manganiello from True Blood the front runner to play Superman? He could certainly fill out the suit.

In Austria, Nikki Lauda is complaining having same-sex partners on their dancing show will destroy the fabric of society. Won’t someone please think of the children?

What’s the longest word in the English language?

Good news! Sen. Harry Reid is about to pass “The Homosexual Classrooms Act, the Gay Bill of Special Rights, the Entry for Homosexual Aliens Act, and Nationwide Mandatory Homosexual Marriage.”

Cool geeks Jane Espenson and Drew Greenberg are Americanizing Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), but in this isolated case, I think that might be a good thing. Plus, with resumes like theirs, I trust them.

Would it creep you out to have a community pool heated by waste heat from a neighboring crematorium? What if it saved the local government $20k+/year? In America, we’d probably have Sarah Palin claiming they were burning your grandmother alive in order to heat the hot tubs of gay sex parties, but this is Britain, so maybe they’re saner.

Matt Bomer says it’s his job to get people to tune into watch White Collar, and if taking his shirt off gets the show press, he’s perfectly willing. I can think of another way Bomer could get press for the show.

The Washington Blade thinks Dan Savage should stick to sex advice.

We now have a Facebook campaign to help Chris Colfer get the Scissor Sisters on Glee. I know I said I was over stuntcasting, but I fully support this.