The TV Addict 

• For the Love of God No! Jim Belushi plots TV comeback.
• Naveen Andrews gets lost… in New York, we’re he’ll guest on LAW & ORDER: SVU.
• Jack Donaghey would be proud. In lieu of GLEE, Jimmy Fallon will get his own Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Float.
• One hero down, how many to go?
• Lawyer Who? British tespian David Tennant signs onto NBC’s REX IS NOT YOUR LAWYER.

Is NBC robbing peter to pay paul in an effort to attract eyeballs to their new one-two combo of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN and LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON? That’s the question this TV Addict is left asking after waking up for the fifth consecutive morning in a row to a deluge of “highlights” and “assets” from our friendly neighborhood publicity team at NBC (and their partners in crime, New Media Strategies). Hey, don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing that goes with my morning coffee like watching Mark Paul Gosselaar bring Zack Morris back from the dead or Norm MacDonald recount his seedy past with Andy Richter. I just can’t help but wonder… who is staying up until midnight (and yes, I realize I’m old!) when blogs like theTVaddict.com and web sites such as EW.com are delivering what you missed last night with your morning joe?

I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I’m so, I’m so… nope, still excited. Because after far too many years of watching certain ungrateful actors who shall remain nameless (cough*cough*DB*cough) shy away from the beloved characters and shows that are responsible for transforming them from a nobody into a household name, serious kudos must be given to RAISING THE BAR SAVED BY THE BELL’s Mark Paul Gosselaar Zack Morris for his hilarious (and eerily spot-on) guest appearance on last night’s LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON. Complete with shout-outs to Stansbury (the Harvard of the west!), a cameo by the original ‘Max,’ and a timely appearance by Zack’s now-iconic cell phone (clearly, someone missed yesterday’s iPhone 3GS announcement) Gosselaar not only showed fans what a good sport he as evidence by his level of commitment to the bit, but that his high school band Zack Attack! is like, so, totally, this close to breaking out. Those Roots (Fallon’s house band) better watch their back!

Good News: According to the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council), Jimmy Fallon’s LATE NIGHT is the greenest late night show on television. Bad News: We’re fairly confident Jimmy was aiming for funniest. D’oh! [Source]

Good News: Variety is reporting that NBC is this close to picking up CHUCK for a third season. Bad News: We have a feeling this report marks the first of what will be numerous articles citing ‘inside’ sources leading up to NBC’s official announcement on Monday. So CHUCK fans, brace yourself. [Source]

Good News: NUMB3RS, the surprise CBS procedural hit is celebrating 100 episodes this May. Bad News: To uncover the amount of NUMB3RS episodes this TV Addict has actually watched, subtract 100 from the number of episodes NUMB3RS is celebrating. [Source]

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Dear Jimmy Fallon,

The honeymoon is over.

A mere two days into your LATE NIGHT adventure, your corporate overlords at NBC/Universal have already taken it upon themselves to send out a teensy little survey (via email) to select members of the viewing public asking some very in-depth questions about everything Jimmy.

And as luck would have it, your friendly neighborhood TV Addict just so happened to be among the lucky few to receive said survey.

Now don’t panic, we went easy on you. Even though we’re not gonna lie, we are kind of disappointed you (a) are not following us on twitter or (b) invited us to see the show.

Chalking up your opening night stiffness to the sheer terror you must have felt knowing that Monday’s show was the most important hour of your life, when asked to check off how we would describe you, we choose “silly,” “goofy” and “funny” rather than “nervous,” “irritating” and “a bad interviewer.” We also cut you some slack when asked to quite literally dissect your show segment-by-segment, choosing “Very Entertaining” and “Somewhat Entertaining” over the far harsher “Not At All Entertaining.”

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Because we know you’d never surf the web on ‘company time,’ theTVaddict.com is proud to present what will hopefully become a new daily feature: Our brief roundup of interesting, bizarre, surprising and funny TV news to help you get you through the day (or at the very least, your lunch hour.)

LISTEN: In what we guarantee will be the funniest forty-seven minutes of your day, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT creator Mitchell Hurwitz and Will Arnett drop by Tim Goodman’s TV Talk Machine to talk about their new animated series SIT DOWN, SHUT UP (premiering on FOX this April), the current status of the ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT movie and Will Arnett’s top-secret new series secretly being developed for Hurwitz for FOX. [Click here to listen]

PLAY: Combining two of this TV Addict’s favorite things, toucharcade.com offers up a first look at the upcoming DEXTER game for the iPhone. [Source]

LEARN: Did you know that according to just-released Live+7 DVR data, FOX’s action packed one-two combo of DOLLHOUSE and TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES increased viewers by 30% and 36% respectively? [Source]

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Good News: Unlike DIRTY SEXY MONEY, ELI STONE and PUSHING DAISIES, the producers of ABC’s LIFE ON MARS have been given the opportunity to provide fans with a definitive ending and some much deserved closure to their fledgling freshman series. Bad News: Because the show has been cancelled, with network brass announcing earlier today that there are no plans to pick up MARS for a second season. [Source: TVWeek]

Good News: After months of build up, webisodes and tweets, Jimmy Fallon’s LATE NIGHT adventure begins tonight. Bad News: At this point, there is only about a 30% chance that this TV Addict will be able to stay wake until 12:35AM.

Good News: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION alum Levar Burton had an impromptu Tweetup in Toronto this evening. Bad News: Burton neglected to give this TV Addict (and recovering Trekkie) enough time to make it downtown, clearly forgetting that transporter technology only works on TV! [Click for Pic!]

At first glance, getting drunk on a couch with two guys named Alex and Kevin may not be the most traditional avenue in which to promote the impending launch of your late night talk show.

But Jimmy Fallon isn’t exactly your traditional late night talk show host.

Especially when one takes a closer look at the path he has chosen to promote the March 2nd launch of LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON.

For those two drunks who once a week carve out an hour of their busy schedule to sit on a couch, drink beer and shoot the, well you know… just so happen to be Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose, the hosts of the insanely popular online weekly video show Diggnation.

Diggnation chronicles the most buzzed about stories on the social news web site digg.com. And more importantly, with an average audience of 200,000 tech savvy 18-34 year olds, is comprised of a demographic that network executives and media buyers only dream about.

Now, here’s where Fallon proves that he’s a heck of a lot than the actor who once thought co-starring in a movie called FEVER PITCH with Drew Barrymore was a good idea.

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