Daily Link Roundup: The Best of the Rest

Jim and Pam's baby gets a due date on The Office, Joe Simpson's new Nickelodeon show, Wheel of Fortune may be the first game show to broadcast in 3D, and where will MTV's Spring Break be this year?

In TV News...
• The story behind the Late Show ad that featured Letterman, Oprah, and Leno.
• Another story about the commercial which states that Dave wanted Conan to be in the commercial instead of Leno. Juicy!
• Wheel of Fortune could be the first gameshow broadcast in 3D. Sounds boring, if you ask me.
• Lost's Daniel Dae Kim has signed on to the Hawaii Five-0 remake.
• A&E is considering their options for scripted series. Finally, taking a step out of the reality-tv direction!
• TV Squad has a list of the six reasons why 24 has jumped the shark.
• Did you catch the Super Bowl ad featuring Barney from How I Met Your Mother last night?
• Jim and Pam's new baby will make it's TV debut in an hour-long special on March 4th.
• Sheryl Crow will appear on ABC's Cougar Town.
• Henry Winkler will join the cast of Royal Pains starting next season.
• Joe Jonas was up for a part on Brothers and Sisters but didn't end up getting it.
• Do you have lots of old crap? Well you're in luck: Antiques Roadshow is holding an open call.
• American Chopper has been cancelled, and the final episode will air this Thursday.
• Creepy-Hollywood-Dad Joe Simpson is creating a new comedy for Nickelodeon. It will loosely mirror his life, revolving around a Texan father and his two daughters.
• MTV's Spring Break (which still exists!) will head to Acapulco, Mexico this year.
• Last night's Super Bowl got its best numbers in 23 years.
• Michael Chiklis is coming back to TV in the form of a new, ABC drama called "No Ordinary Family.
• Here's what the Tonight Show set looks like two weeks later.
Around the Web...
• You can all of yesterday's Super Bowl ads in one place at YouTube's Ad Blitz.
• Here's a blast from the past: You can listen to the audio from David Letterman's college radio broadcast broadcast from his campus radio station in Muncie, Indiana in 1969.
• Even though Valentine's Day hasn't come out yet, New Line has already said yes to a sequel.
• Hmm, that's interesting... Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman has a website for a Woodshop.
• The best new tumblr I've seen all day has to be Hipster Puppies. Aw!
• Finally, a movie has beat Avatar at the box office, but it wasn't one anyone was expecting. Dear John, the chick-flick that came from a Nicholas Sparks book of the same name, cleaned up at the box office this weekend.
• Remember 90s toy "Strech Armstrong?" It's being made into a movie starring Taylor Lautner. Really.



Send an email to Whitney Jefferson, the author of this post, at whitney@gawker.com.



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