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

Cornell (ever heard of it?) is using The Office's Andy for self-promotion, Fox announces their summer schedule, Letterman's extortionist pleads guilty, and what TV is new on DVD today.

[This captured DVR glitch reveals relevant information about the new Tonight Show. Image via The Duty.]

• In TV News...
• Fox has announced their summer lineup: more of So You Think You Can Dance, Hell's Kitchen, and Past Life. They will also premiere two new shows: The Good Guys and The Good Guys.
• Cornell's Law School is actually using Andy Bernard, a fictional character from The Office to promote themselves online.
• ABC Family will make a television-version of The Blind Side, the heart-warming football movie that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar.
• Marcia Cross and Kyle MacLachlan took some time to answer fan-submitted questions about Desperate Housewives.
• CBS has renewed Undercover Boss for a second season.
• Nick Nolte will join the cast of HBO's Luck alongside Dustin Hoffman.
• KISS—the rock band—is developing a kids show for E!
• If you can believe it, NBC's Ratings are still doing just fine after the Olympics.
• Will & Grace's Sean Hayes finally came out.
• Tom Cavanagh—who you may remember fromEd, Love Monkey, and Scrubs—has been cast as the lead in ABC's upcoming Edgar Floats.
• In case you missed it, Jezebel put together a hilarious montage of all the times Claire has cried out for Charlie and Aaron on Lost.
• Jean Smart will play Hawaii's Governor on the new Hawaii Five-O.
• Joe Haldeman, aka David Letterman's extortionist, pled guilty in court today. He'll spend a minimum of six months in jail.

• Around the Web...
• TV on DVD that's just been released today.
• Have you heard about the gay Avatar-themed dance parties?
• The Guardian's Anna Pickard set out to dispel American TV Myths from a British perspective. Turns out, Cops do eat donuts and Chinese food comes from paper cartons.
• Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade because the name of one of their talking babies was the same as hers. I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Girl, get over yourself."
• TV Guide has an interview with the producers of Lost in which they discuss what it means to be a candidate and the flash-sideways.
• Have you seen Heidi Montag's Funny or Die clip? Tom from Best Week Ever put it best when he said, "Help! I am too horrified by Heidi's plastic face to decide if this is funny."
• A bowl game will be held in Yankee Stadium this December.
• Patton Oswalt is writing a comic book that starts where Firefly left off.
• Urlesque gathered up a bunch of emotional distressing password recovery questions. So uh, what's the name of your first pet?
• If you love It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and .gifs as much as I do, this site is for you. It may also crash your browser.

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

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