All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

– Ron Howard‘s back with another TV comedy: The Arrested Development producer is working on a workplace comedy set at the Internal Revenue Service and written by The Office director/writer Brent Forrester.

– No surprise: The audience for the second night of The Jay Leno Show was down 34 percent from Monday’s premiere.

– The Sept. 23 episode of Dancing with the Stars will include a tribute to Patrick Swayze.

– You just knew nothing good could come out of The View having Kate Gosselin as a guest co-host: E! Online reports that she may get her own View-ish talk show, along with … Paula Deen?!

– Now this makes perfect sense: Betty White will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild at the SAG Awards ceremony on Jan. 23.

– President Obama is hitting late night as the sole guest on the Sept. 21 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman.

– Star Trek actor George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, will be the first-ever gay couple to appear on The Newlywed Game. The show’s new season kicks off on Oct. 12.

– The A-Team big-screen movie update: District 9 star Sharlto Copley is Murdoch, Patrick Wilson is a CIA agent and Jessica Biel is an ex-girlfriend of Bradley Cooper‘s Faceman.

– The Devil’s moving into the Dollhouse: Reaper star Ray Wise is joining the cast of Joss Whedon‘s Fox series.

– FX is airing a sneak preview of its animated spy spoof, Archer, at 10:30 on Thursday, after the season five premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The show will launch its first season on the network in January.

– The Real Housewives of Orange County, the show that started it all, premieres its fifth season on Nov. 5.

– Travel and Leisure.com has a fun feature on how to experience New York City like the Mad Men (and women!) do.

– And tonight in primetime:

– America’s Got Talent announces the million-dollar winner at 8PM ET (NBC)
– More Wipeout fun at 8PM on ABC
– New So You Think You Can Dance on Fox (8PM)
– Lauren Conrad is the guest judge on America’s Next Top Model (8PM, The CW)
– Josh Groban guest stars on Glee (9PM, Fox)
– The Beautiful Life premiere on The CW at 9PM
– Dark Blue wraps its first season at 10PM (TNT)
– MTV has the Real World: Cancun reunion special at 10PM
– Robert‘s cookin’ for 400 employees at the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Vermont on Dinner: Impossible (10PM, Food Network)
– New Toddlers & Tiaras on TLC (10PM)
– Adam hits Sarasota on Man vs. Food (10PM, Travel Channel)
– New Black Gold on truTV (10PM)
– The contestants have to cook with cactus on Top Chef: Las Vegas (10PM, Bravo)
– Robin Williams and Miley Cyrus hang with Jay on The Jay Leno Show (10PM, NBC)
– And a new season of Biography kicks off with an episode on George Clooney (Bio, 10PM)