· Is the Nickelodeon series iCarly suddenly cool for adults? Because I don't have room on my DVR. Not only is Jane Lynch stopping by next season, but so will Jack Black. The funnyman has booked a guest appearance on the kids show as a "video game nemesis" who meets up with one of the lead characters at a Comic-Con-like event. Fun fact for those with DVD copies of School of Rock: This will be a reunion for Black and his Rock co-star, Miranda Cosgrove. iCarly herself played the precocious Summer in the Richard Linklater film. [EW]
· Kleenex at the ready: the final season of Friday Night Lights will premiere on DirecTV on Oct. 27. Expect it to air in reality -- as in: on NBC -- later in 2011. [EW]
· Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden is heading back to Law & Order: SVU, in the same role that won her an Emmy nomination in 2007. [TV Guide]
· Considering I watched Prison Break for four seasons just to see what Robert Knepper's T-Bag would do next, this news makes me smile: Knepper will guest star on NBC's new Jerry Bruckheimer series, Chase, as "an ex-gangster who tries masquerading as an average Joe for several years, but snaps and starts up a whole new crime spree." Hey, can you blame him? [Vulture]
· Having gotten unlucky with network television, Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller is giving cable a try; he's signed on to adapt The Lotus Caves for SyFy. The book follows some "rebellious lunar colonists" who find a group of hyper-intelligent aliens living in the titular caves. [EW]
· Two Family Guy writer-producers -- Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild -- have signed overall deals with 20th Century Fox, which include both staying on their home series and working on a live-action sitcom. Hopefully it turns out better than Til Death. [Deadline]