All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

– New York magazine’s Vulture blog says Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins may be canceled. VH1 says: it ain’t so.

– The Adam Lambert Rolling Stone cover hits newsstands this week, and yes, he confirms it.

– Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Bradley Cooper as Faceman? Bring on The A-Team movie!

– David Letterman is probably sticking around CBS beyond the 2009-2010 season.

– Rachael Ray will be yakking about EVOO for a few more seasons.

– And My Name Is Earl might not be done just yet, either. TBS may greenlight 13 new episodes.

– Jimmy Fallon‘s Webby acceptance speech: “Thank God Conan got promoted.” Clever.

– And you’ve got to hand it to Fallon and crew for getting Mark-Paul Gosselaar to don his Zack Morris duds. With that crazy ’90s cell phone, even!

– Who’s the adorkable kid in this photo? Ryan Seacrest. No, really.

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All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

– Weeds premieres its fifth season tonight (10PM ET, Showtime). Check out my interview with Emmy nominee Elizabeth Perkins (also a star of one of my all-time fave movies, About Last Night) at AOL TV.

– Here’s hoping Jimmy Fallon really can pull off a Saved by the Bell reunion tonight. And PS – So happy Zach Morris clipped the ‘do.

– Is Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) alive on Lost? Okay, so then why’s he playing foosball in that new ABC promo? EW.com’s Michael Ausiello has the surprising answer. PS – IGN TV thinks the secret show is Flash Forward.

– More from Ausiello: There may be a Cagney & Lacey reunion on Burn Notice next year.

– Think you’ve got advertising skills? Put ’em to use pimping – ha – HBO’s new series Hung, about a middle-aged guy (Thomas Jane) who becomes a gigolo, and you might win $10,000.

– Cougars are all the rage on network TV, especially now that Erica Kane‘s become one.

– Go and Prison Break star William Fichtner will guest star on the upcoming sixth season of Entourage, which premieres on HBO on July 12.

– Kathy Bates, Tim Curry and Colm Meaney will star in Sci Fi’s Alice in Wonderland miniseries.

– Uncle Jesse – the Full House one, not the Dukes of Hazzard one – is itching to make a big-screen version of his cheesy, but endearing sitcom, sans Olsen twins and with, oddly, James Franco taking over his role.

– Once and Again and My So-Called Life producer Marshall Herskovitz has a plan to radically change up the way TV pilots are sold. He ain’t tellin’ what it is, though.

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Courtesy of BizBash.com, a round-up of some of the celebs attending the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday. Who do you think landed the coolest guests? Gotta love TV faves like Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) and Glenn Close (Damages), not to mention NBC’s line-up of cool cats Colin Firth, Denis Leary, Jason Bateman and Samuel L. Jackson, but I have to give it to the New York Daily News for choosing Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who’s responsible for what remains the best feel-good story of the year so far.

– BBC: Sir Howard Stringer, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ellen Burstyn and Phil Gordon

– Fox News: Chace Crawford, Todd Palin, Matthew Modine, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace

– National Music Publishers’ Association: Kara DioGuardi

– CNN: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick, Brad Cooper and Tyra Banks

– ABC News: Jon and Dorothea Bon Jovi, Kate Walsh, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel

– New York Daily News: Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger

– Fortune: George Lucas and Glenn Close

– People: Sting and Trudie Styler, Miranda Cosgrove, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Jon Hamm, Eva Longoria Parker, Ludacris and Brooke Shields

– Glamour: Narciso Rodriguez, Alicia Keys, Kenneth Cole and Kerry Washington

– USA Today: Tim Daly, Justin Long and Richard Belzer

– Atlantic Magazine: Ed Westwick

– Newsweek: Natalie Portman and Owen Wilson

– NBC: Colin Firth, Jimmy Fallon, Mariska Hargitay, Mike Myers, William H. Macy, Jason Bateman, Natasha Bedingfeld, Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, John Cusack, Ari Emanuel, Whoopi Goldberg, Felicity Huffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Denis Leary, B.J. Novak, Brian Williams, David Gregory, Al Roker, Ann Curry, Luke Russert, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Jim Cramer

– CBS: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall, Colin Powell, Bob Schieffer and Brad Paisley

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Justin Timberlake, in just two stints as Saturday Night Live host (and several more quick surprise guest appearances), has established himself as one of the show’s all-time best celeb performers, so his return as penultimate host of the 34th season this Saturday night (NBC, 11:30PM ET) makes for must-see (and TiVo)-TV viewing. Need proof? Check out this “Weekend Update” video clip, in which the fantastically talented J.T. hosts the whole show in two minutes:

Meanwhile, Timberlake paired with his “Dick in a Box” pal Andy Samberg to film a series of promos for this week’s episode, which also features Ciara – Timberlake’s “Love Sex Magic” collaborator – as musical guest:

Here’s hoping we might see another “Omeletteville” skit this weekend, or, with a Jimmy Fallon pop-in, another edition of “The Barry Gibb Talk Show.”

What are your favorite moments from Timberlake’s visits to Saturday Night Live?

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