All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- So many TV shows are headed to the big screen, but here’s the flip side: ABC is turning the angsty ’80s Brat Pack drama St. Elmo’s Fire into a weekly series.

- More big screen-to-boob tube news: Kate Winslet is going to star in an HBO miniseries remake of Mildred Pierce, the 1945 movie that nabbed an Oscar for Joan Crawford.

- How I Met Your Mother’s fifth season, which premieres on CBS on Sept. 21, will include a musical installment to celebrate the show’s 100th episode. Bring it on, NPH.

- The first guest on The Jay Leno Show when it premieres on Sept. 14: Jerry Seinfeld.

- Reno 911!’s not the only series to get the boot this week; TNT just cancelled the Holly Hunter cop drama Saving Grace.

- In case you missed that Big Brother shocker last night, in which Jeff used his viewer-granted power to oust Jessie … take a look at it here.

- The Real Housewives of Atlanta producers are apparently looking to cast The Hot, Fabulous Gay Men of New York City for their next series.

- Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh on Family Guy?! Uh huh.

- And check out TV Tattle.com’s round-up of links for everything you ever wanted to know about the third season of Mad Men, which starts Sunday night at 10PM ET on AMC.

- And this weekend in primetime:

FRIDAY
- The first season of Mental wraps at 8PM ET on Fox
- Sweet Caroline! Neil Diamond, in concert, on CBS (9PM)
- The Degrassi gang heads to L.A. in the appropriately titled Degrassi Goes Hollywood made-for-TV movie (8PM, The N)
- Southland encore on NBC at 8PM
- VH1’s Lords of the Revolution miniseries ends with a profile of pop art God Andy Warhol (8PM)
- VH1 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Woodstock with the doc Woodstock: Then and Now (9PM)
- Monk (9PM, USA) bonds with a fellow widower
- Henry’s ship returns on Eureka (9PM, SyFy)
- What Not to Wear (9PM, TLC): What this drag racer mom is wearing
- Paul sees a vicious whale killing on Whale Wars (9PM, Animal Planet)
- Tom Cruise is spending Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (9PM, BBCA)
- Lock ‘n Load with R. Lee Ermey (9PM) examines the history of handguns
- Shawn and Gus investigate the murder (or is it?!) of a billionaire on Psych (10PM, USA)
- Project Runway alumni Johnathan Kayne Gillaspie has gone Gown Crazy (10PM, TLC) as he starts his own wedding fashions biz
- The Soup (10PM, E!) is good food
- Tonight’s Catch It Keep It (10PM, Science Channel) prize: a killer grill
- Brad Pitt and Ashton Kutcher guest on Real Time with Bill Maher (10PM, HBO)

SATURDAY
- Dogs are behaving badly on back-to-back eps of In the Dog House on Animal Planet (8PM)
- Fuse has highlights from Lollapalooza, including a Kings of Leon performance, on Fuse Fest: Lollapalooza 2009 (9PM)
- Vanessa Huxtable (Tempestt Bledsoe) and her real-life hubby Ron Johnson (Darryl M. Bell) play house on the new Fox Reality Channel series Househusbands of Hollywood (9PM)
- BBCA has a new ep (9PM) of its new drama Being Human
- SyFy’s guilty pleasure movie of the week: The Terminators, a knock-off of that much more famous movie series (9PM)
- Susan hates Bill’s beard on The Bill Engvall Show (9PM, TBS)
- CMT has The Singing Bee season finale at 8PM

SUNDAY
- Rachael Ray competes for charity on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (8PM, ABC)
- Nominations for the next eviction are revealed on Big Brother 11 (8PM, CBS)
- Ruby (8PM, Style) heads to the beach
- New ep of Merlin on NBC (8PM)
- Eight neighboring families are walled off into a community where they compete for a $250,000 prize on There Goes the Neighborhood (9PM, CBS)
- The Shark Tank-ers tussle over a big business op (9PM, ABC)
- New Drop Dead Diva (9PM, Lifetime)
- Another bachelorette party fight on Bridezillas (9PM, WE)
- Gold digger Megan Hauserman tries to land a rich dude on Megan Wants a Millionaire (9PM, VH1)
- True Blood (9PM, HBO) continues its sophomore season as Hoyt sticks up for Jessica
- Beyonce guests on America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV (9PM)
- It’s the penultimate episode of the season for Ice Road Truckers (9PM, History)
- In a geeky sorta spin on Entourage – 2 Months, $2 Million (9PM, G4) – four math nerds move to Vegas and try to win $2 million in two months playing online poker
- On the actual Entourage (10PM, HBO), Andrew’s wife goes to Ari looking for answers about her straying hubby
- Mad Men! Season three, 10PM, AMC
- On Hung (10PM, HBO), Jessica invites Ray to dinner
- Back-to-back episodes of Pawn Stars on History Channel (10 and 10:30PM)
- Gilmore Girls grandma Kelly Bishop guests on Army Wives (10PM, Lifetime)
- Office Space star Ron Livingston is an astronaut who embarks on a long mission to Venus in the new ABC drama series Defying Gravity (10PM)
- Antonio Sabato Jr. tries to find love, Bret Michaels-style, on VH1’s My Antonio (10PM)
- The other Kardashian sisters move to Miami on Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami (10PM, E!)