All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

– It’s all about The Beatles today – that Beatles: Rock Band game for Xbox 360 is simply awesome! (and, warning, quite addictive) – but do you know which TV network first introduced The Beatles to America? Probably not the one you’re thinking, as it turns out.

– Janet Jackson will open MTV’s Video Music Awards show on Sunday with a tribute to Michael Jackson.

– Jay Leno has lined up a whole batch of correspondents for his new primetime talk show, which as New York magazine points out, is certainly not on everyone’s must-see-TV list.

– The O.C. dad Peter Gallagher, the man with the best eyebrows ever, will be back on the tube in the upcoming USA series Covert Affairs. He’ll play a CIA director who “loves a good fight, great scotch and a filthy joke,” opposite Piper Perabo‘s CIA trainee.

– Guest-star-a-go-go: Bush singer (and Mr. Gwen Stefani) Gavin Rossdale will play a rocker who might be a killer on Criminal Minds, and Brat Pack-er Judd Nelson will play a doctor on Psych.

– Oprah says her interview with Whitney Houston, which airs on Sept. 14 and 15, is her best interview ever.

– ABC thinks it has the solution to viewers fast-forwarding through commercials during Desperate Housewives broadcasts: A mini-soap opera created by DH‘s Marc Cherry.

– Christiane Amanpour is getting her own talk show on CNN.

– Among the contestants on the next season of The Amazing Race (which premieres on CBS on Sept. 27): Two Harlem Globetrotters.

– And tonight in primetime:

– ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business News and Fox News Channel will air President Obama‘s address to a joint session of Congress live at 8PM ET
– So You Think You Can Dance kicks off another season on Fox (8PM)
– 13th season premiere of America’s Next Top Model at 8PM on The CW
– Glee season premiere at 9PM (Fox)
– History Channel’s new series Nostradamus Effects (9PM) examines doomsday prophecies
– Scrubs‘ Donald Faison hosts the PBS special Your Life, Your Money (9PM), a money-management advice show aimed at young adults
– Wipeout on ABC (9PM)
– Season finale of Leverage at 9PM on TNT
– NCG examines a new trend: E-Mail Order Brides (9PM)
– Bear heads back to Alaska on Man vs. Wild (9PM, Discovery)
– Season finale of The Real World: Cancun at 10PM on MTV (Joey‘s back!)
– French fare is on the menu at Top Chef: Las Vegas (10PM, Bravo)
– Joan Rivers‘ How’d You Get So Rich? wraps its first season on TV Land (10PM)
– Criss Angel: Mindfreak (10PM, A&E) finds Criss hiding in a coffin, which a car then smashes into. Good times
– On Dinner: Impossible (10PM, Food Network), Robert has to fashion a fancy dinner out of food court fodder in Philadelphia
– Toddlers & Tiaras heads to West Virginia for a kiddie beauty pageant (10PM, TLC)
– New Black Gold ep on truTV (10PM)
– Sundance Channel’s The Day Before (10PM) profiles fashion designer and “queen of knits” Sonia Rykiel
– And on a new Man vs. Food (10PM, Travel Channel), Adam heads to Hawaii, where he tries to eat a stack of pancakes that are made with four pounds of flour