Channel Surfing – November 17, 2009

Channel Surfing – November 17, 2009

All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

– Via GeekChicDaily.com, place your pre-order now: Tomorrow’s the release date for the one-shot comic book version of Joss Whedon‘s Dr. Horrible, penned by his Fringe-writing bro Zack Whedon.

– And speaking of Dr. Horrible, Neil Patrick Harris is now Twittering.

– Bob Saget will star in an A&E travel reality series, Bob Saget’s Strange Days, in which he travels around America with groups of people like biker gangs, mail order brides and Rumspringa-ing Amish teens.

– Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, who is developing a new mother/daughter/sister drama for HBO, says she hasn’t given up on the idea of a Gilmore movie. Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease let it happen.

– Justin Theroux is joining the cast of Parks and Recreation – a series that continues to grow on me this season – as a potential love interest for Amy Poehler‘s Leslie, while Poehler says her real-life hubby, Arrested Development star Will Arnett, may guest star on her show this season.

– Chris Elliott will star in Cartoon Network’s upcoming live-action comedy Eagleheart, where he’ll play a has-been action movie actor who’s now starring on a TV series and making life heck for those around him.

– I’ve resisted all things vampire-related at the movies and on TV, but The Vampire Diaries does sound kinda guilty-pleasure fun, which may make The CW’s 10-episode Diaries marathon – the week of Dec. 14, two episodes a night – must-TiVo-TV.

– You loved mixed tapes, now you can make a mixed DVD, full of Adult Swim shows.

– Sopranos alum Lorraine Bracco will play Angie Harmon‘s mom in TNT’s upcoming crime drama Rizzoli, which, surprisingly enough, is not taking place in the famous NYC bookstore.

– USA has signed a deal to keep WWE’s Raw on the network through 2014, even as Vince McMahon looks to launch his own WWE network.

– So you think you can cook? Gordon Ramsay is looking for wannabe chefs of every experience level to star with him on the Dec. 15 Fox special Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live.

– So you think you can dance your patootie off, literally? Oxygen is looking for contestants for season two of its weight loss/dance reality show Dance Your Ass Off.

– And tonight in primetime: Merry Madagascar (8PM ET, NBC) reunites the entire cast of the Madagascar movies, as they try to help an injury-plagued Santa and get themselves back to the Big Apple; The Prisoner remake miniseries wraps with back-to-back episodes (8 and 9PM, AMC); Ryan recruits people to help take on the Visitors on V (8PM, ABC); The Big Gunn, a.k.a. Tim Gunn, helps The Biggest Loser (8:30PM, NBC) contestants with makeovers; She’s back, and not a moment too soon to save this lame remake from itself: Heather Locklear brings Amanda Woodward to the new Melrose Place (9PM, The CW); John Mayer is live in concert on Fuse (9PM), as he celebrates the release of his new CD Battle Studies with a performance at the Beacon Theater in NYC (I’m so there); Just when SAMCRO averted the disaster of Jax leaving the club, another drama pops up: Opie finds out Tig’s secret on Sons of Anarchy (10PM, FX); and on The Hills (10Pm, MTV), Jayde and Kristin throw down when Jayde decides she wants to get back together with Brody.

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