All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- Memorial Day weekend means TV marathons, and TVGuide.com has a round-up of ‘em.

- Nurse Jackie, the quirky new nurse dramedy starring Edie “Carmela Soprano” Falco, debuts June 8 on Showtime, but you can watch the first episode now, free, at Sho.com. The password: “shifthappens.”

- Now that the networks have announced their schedules for next season, they have to deal with the dismal stats of the just-concluded 2008/09 season: ratings were down 16 percent.

- Don’t read this EW.com story unless you want to know the major twist that will kick off The CW’s remake of Melrose Place in the fall.

- Tonight’s season finales: Starz’ terrific comedies Party Down (10:30PM ET) and Head Case (10PT), which features a funny cameo by Jerry Seinfeld.

- What was missing from the American Idol finale (besides an Adam Lambert win, of course)? A goofy Will Ferrell song that was cut.

- Fringe’s Kirk Acevedo took to his Facebook page earlier this week to say he’d been fired from the show. Not so, says a show producer.

- First Guiding Light is cancelled, and now All My Children killed Stuart Chandler. What is going on in daytime TV?!

- Just when you think you can’t possibly love Neil Patrick Harris more, you find out he has pop-up books in his guest room, Kiehl’s products in the shower and a selection of magazines in his bathroom. NPH!

- And in more things that make perfect sense to me, Project Runway star (and he is the real star of the show) Tim Gunn will become a Marvel Comics superhero.

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Here’s the official line-up from The CW, followed by the network’s description of its new series:

THE CW PRIMETIME SCHEDULE: FALL 2009
(All Times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8PM – Gossip Girl
9PM – One Tree Hill

TUESDAY
8PM – 90210
9PM – Melrose Place

WEDNESDAY
8PM – America’s Next Top Model
9PM – The Beautiful Life

THURSDAY
8PM – The Vampire Diaries
9PM – Supernatural

FRIDAY
8PM – Smallville
9PM – America’s Next Top Model encore

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All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- The Sunday New York Times magazine has a great profile of Conan O’Brien, as he prepares to begin his stint as the new host of The Tonight Show. And yes, he too was surprised that Leno’s getting that nightly 10PM timeslot.

- The next edition of The Real World, The Real World: Cancun, debuts on MTV on June 24. It’s the show’s 22nd season.

- Even reality TV stars are haggling for more money. The New York Post reports that the Real Housewives of New York City want more than the $50,000 per episode they received for season two (up from $5,000 per ep for season one). Whaddaya think? Are they worth it?

- Wanna keep up with all those celebrities are Tweeting about? E! will begin running a crawl of celebrities’ Twitter postings at the bottom of the screen during its programming.

- Just what every desk needs: a Jeff Probst bobblehead.

- TBS might save My Name Is Earl.

- Chuck creator Josh Schwartz says not to worry about those rumored cast cuts; he thinks we won’t even be able to tell where the budget cuts are being made when we watch the show next season.

- MacGruber, the movie, is an idea whose time should definitely come.

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Here’s the official line-up from CBS, followed by the network’s description of its new series:

CBS PRIMETIME SCHEDULE: FALL 2009
(All Times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8PM – How I Met Your Mother
8:30PM – Accidentally on Purpose
9PM – Two and a Half Men
9:30PM – The Big Bang Theory
10PM – CSI: Miami

TUESDAY
8PM – NCIS
9PM – NCIS: Los Angeles
10PM – The Good Wife

WEDNESDAY
8PM – The New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30PM – Gary Unmarried
9PM – Criminal Minds
10PM – CSI: NY

THURSDAY
8PM – Survivor
9PM – CSI
10PM – The Mentalist

FRIDAY
8PM – Ghost Whisperer
9PM – Medium
10PM – Numb3rs

SATURDAY
8PM – Crimetime Saturday (drama encore)
9PM – Crimetime Saturday (drama encore)
10PM – 48 Hours Investigates

SUNDAY
7PM – 60 Minutes
8PM – The Amazing Race
9PM – Three Rivers
10PM – Cold Case

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All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- At least Ryan Seacrest warned viewers last night to put extra time at the end of their TiVos for tonight’s American Idol season finale, but isn’t it still ridiculous that an episode that really boils down to one 30-second announcement of who the winner is, is instead so bloated that it can’t even be contained into a two-hour block?

- By the way, DiaIdol.com predicts last night’s Adam vs. Kris showdown is too close to call. People, did you not hear Adam sing “A Change Is Gonna Come”? It really should not be this close.

- The New York Times jokes, I think, that Jimmy Kimmel might not have a job today after the naughty, but hilarious, riffs on NBC, Fox and his own network at yesterday’s ABC Upfront presentation.

- And Kimmel’s remarks about the new Jay Leno primetime series apparently weren’t that far off from what some at NBC might have thought. Leno, it turns out, was NBC’s third choice to host a nightly primetime show, after Oprah and David Letterman.

- Can’t wait for the remake of Footloose with Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford as Ren McCormack.

- In case you missed the premiere of Glee last night, you can catch the episode at Hulu today.

- Lifetime.com, pegged to the June 7 season three premiere of Army Wives, has produced more than a dozen videos, collected as Homecoming: Real Army Wives, that pay homage to real-life Army wives, whose husbands have been deployed for 15 months or more in Iraq.

- Check out clips from ABC’s new comedies, including Modern Family, the mockumentary-ish family comedy starring Ed “Al Bundy” O’Neill.

- Even the most devoted Trekkies may find the new “video-based encyclopedia” of behind-the-scenes Star Trek info a bit daunting.

- Next up: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

- My Name Is Earl star Ethan Suplee is taking it to Twitter to try to rally fans for a save-the-show campaign. To get onboard, follow the “EarlTwitition.”

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