Morning Meme: "Teenage Dream" Debuts At #1, Searching For Superman, and First Pictures of "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena"

In one of the strangest confluences of talent I’ve ever heard of, Starz has greenlit Boss, a political drama starring Kelsey Gammer, written by Apocalypto’s Farhad Safinia, and the pilot will be directed by Gus Van Sant.

Good news – Calista Flockhart is taking at least three episodes off from Brothers & Sisters. Filling in for Kitty is Beau Bridges. Well, he’s going to be on the show. I doubt Beau can whine and have hair that bad.

The remake of Gambit, the 1966 comedy with Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine has funding and a director. But will they use the same costumes?

For the first time, a Glee single has debuted at #1 on the digital charts. “Teenage Dream” by Darren Criss sold 214,000 copies. One of those is on my iPhone.

Bristol Palin says that she and her sister Willow “shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize.” Seriously? You’re apologizing for “reacting” and not for calling a teenage boy a faggot? Maybe it is time to gang up on a 16-year-old.

Army General Carter Ham, one of the co-chairs of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell study, says that the report won’t be released early. But he totally schooled Senator McCain on the scope, detail and impartiality of the study, and he did it on the record.

My favorite Law Dork Chris Geidner got to interview Tony nominated playwright Moises Kaufman, who wrote The Laramie Project. AfterElton.com never lets me anywhere near the talent.

Zac Snyder has officially begun the search for Superman. They’re looking in the 28-32 age range, so sorry Jon Hamm. But that means Armie Hammer and Joe Manganiello are back in the running.

Julie Bowen says of James Marsden on Modern Family “He's like basically naked. He's with the gay gentlemen." 

Nigel Lythgoe says that this season of So You Think You Can Dance is a hybrid of the old and the new. They’ll take it to Top 20 like the old show, but when they get to the Top 10, the all stars will come in and partner with the contestants.

Which is basically the opposite of what they’re doing with American Idol. They’ll start with televising the Top 12 instead of the Top 24, because we can’t get invested with that many contestants.

Chris Colfer is officially starting a campaign to get Julie Andrews to guest star as his grandmother. I’m very much over all the stunt casting, but Julie Andrews and Kurt?

Nate Berkus may be struggling in the ratings, but he’s doing the show he wanted to do. He overruled the set designers and did it himself. And he’s doing his show with regular people. It’s not that he’s against celebrities on his show, but they have to be willing to come play with him, and do something design-y.

What kind of condom are you?