Link Round-Up: 1/26

Welcome to what we hope will become a daily occurrence here on the WEEKEND site, a link roundup of all the most important, life-changing information that you may have glazed over reading about some State of the Union address or something. We hope to gather all of these relevant news bits and give them to you right here for you to take or leave. We’re going to keep trying either way.

Glenn Beck is allegedly the second most popular personality on television these days. He is also allegedly getting under Bill O’Reilly’s skin. One of these sounds much more ridiculous that the other, care to guess which? [Huffington Post]

YES! MORE CRIME SHOWS! CBS’ latest might just star Forest Whitaker in a ‘Criminal Minds’ spinoff. [THR]

A contract standoff with the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast? Really? MTV, can it be that difficult? [Live Feed]

‘American Idol’ contestant kicked out of the top 24? For something that really isn’t even his fault, I agree with ‘Rolling Stone;’ this is pretty severe. But rules are rules I suppose. [Rolling Stone]

Midwest Music Festivals FTL: Rothbury ’10 cancelled. This is pretty unfortunate after landing a couple good lineups the last couple years—it makes the anticipation for the Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza lineups oh so much more intense. [Rolling Stone]

And last but certainly not least, for all you dreamers out there, it is expected that Apple will announce big plans for its tablet tomorrow. There are pics here… and they look pretty damn impressive. [Huffington Post]