Steve Granitz/WireImage.com, Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com• A new awards category recognizing "outstanding host for a reality or reality-competition program" will be presented for the first time at the 60th annual Emmys this September. Insiders put the safe money on American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest to walk away with the statuette and Tyra Banks to passive-aggressively sulk about it for months afterward.
• The surviving members of the Grateful Dead have turned over the band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz. The school’s initial enthusiasm over the gift was tempered when it was revealed that the so-called archives consisted of a half-eaten veggie burrito and some guy in a filthy poncho, calling himself “Sunbear.”
• NBC announced a deal with the NHL to broadcast professional hockey games through the 2008-09 season. Television viewers responded with a counteroffer to continue watching absolutely anything else.
• James Caan stormed off the set of his latest film, Nailed, after he and director David O. Russell got into a violent argument over the right way for Caan’s character to choke on a cookie. Hey, if they need advice on how to choke, they should have called A-Rod! Am I right?! (This joke not intended for use outside of Best Damn Sports Show Ever.)
• In reaction to worldwide food shortages, two giant U.S. warehouse retail chains are limiting the amount of rice their customers may buy. A coalition of American-Chinese restaurants has declared that this news should not affect their clientele: “Our customers will still be able to not eat and eventually discard the same amount of rice that they always have.”
• After two past rejections, the owner of fast-food chain Arby's restaurants finally succeeded in buying competitor Wendy's for an estimated $2 billion. Economists expressed equal amounts of surprise and concern that Wendy’s finally relented to the sale and that Arby’s was somehow able to come up with two billion dollars.