Daily Link Roundup: TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web

Fringe has been picked up for third season, photos of drunken celebs at last night's Oscar after-parties, Zach Morris is on TV once again, catching up on the Independent Spirit Awards, and Betty White will (really!) host SNL.

[Zach Galifianakis tells us what he really thinks about CNN's The Situation Room on Saturday's episode of SNL. Watch the sketch here. Image via inothernews on tumblr.]

• In TV News...
• Last night's Oscars were the most-watched in five years.
• Zach Morris Mark Paul Gosselaar will grace our televisions once again on TBS's comedy pilot, Franklin & Bash. He'll star opposite Breckin Meyer.
• J.J. Abram's Fringe has been picked up for a third season.
• Scott Foley has joined the cast of True Blue, alongside Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz. He'll play the assistant DA in the ABC cop drama.
• Jesse Plemons, aka Landry, won't be back for the final season of Friday Night Lights.
• Rob Thomas, producer of Party Down, shares his thoughts on Adam Scott's departure.
• Kathy Bates is in final negotiations to play a lawyer in David E. Kelley's legal drama pilot for NBC. What does this mean for her role on The Office?
• Tom Bergeron will get a new co-host Dancing With the Stars by the name of Brooke Burke.
• A new channel, Nat Geo Wild, will appear on some cable providers as early as March 29th. It will showcase programs about natural history such as giant octopi and oversized cats.
• Betty White says that she will indeed host Saturday Night Live before the season is over.
• A man is claiming that The Doctors tricked him into getting penis surgery.
• NBC has denied that a laugh track was added to Sarah Palin's Tonight Show monologue.
• NBC will show the Miss Universe Pageant for three more years.
• This is pretty funny: the "Jay Leno is the Future of Television" cover of Time Magazine was it's worst-selling cover of 2009.

• Around the Web...
• If you missed the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend, you can catch up at their website, which has a ton of clips of all the action.
• I had no idea that Bruce Vilanch has been a writer for the Oscars for 21 years!
• Best Week Ever asks us who got drunkest after the Oscars? I'd have guessed Jeff Bridges but these photos suggest otherwise...
• TV Squad's "morning-after" list of Oscar observations.
• What was up with the Farrah Fawcett snub during the Oscars' "In Memoriam" segment?
• Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland did a bang-up job at the box office this past weekend: it grossed over 116 million dollars.
• You can read all of the Oscars winners and losers over at IMDb.
• Urlesque has a very weird and random collection of the craziest finger puppets on etsy.
• Conan O'Brien is selling his New York City apartment.
• Do yourself a favor and check out fourfour's recap of the Oscars and bask in all of the funny gifs.

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

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