TV Bites: Betty White Just Can't Help Herself

Also in this morning's TV Bites: A Jersey Shore idiot gets fictionalized on Bones... Alan Ball casts up his HBO pilot... Hawaii Five-0 finds room for a Hiro... and more ahead.

· The Betty White takeover of earth is pretty much complete. The ubiquitous 88-year-old will co-star alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Lost Valentine, airing on CBS in early 2011. Hewitt will star as a "journalist working on a profile of a woman (White) whose husband was declared MIA during WWII." Your mom is totally going to love this one. [Variety]

· You can't make this up: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was all set to appear as a murder victim on a Jersey Shore-inspired episode of Bones, but a deal couldn't be worked out between Fox and MTV. An actor will have to play The Situation instead. Too bad! [EW]

· Back in reality, Alan Ball has finalized the cast for his HBO pilot, All Signs of Death. Mercedes Masohn will play the female lead opposite the already announced Ben Whishaw, while Clayne Crawford, Ron Yuan, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Kelsey Ford round out the cast. Whishaw plays a crime scene cleaner who stumbles onto a murder mystery. [Deadline]

· Good for Masi Oka! The Heroes star has signed for a guest appearance on Hawaii Five-0 in a role that could eventually reoccur. He'll play a coroner that helps Alex O'Loughlin's Steve McGarrett with mysteries. Sure thing. D.L. Hughley has also signed on to guest star during the first season. [TV Guide]

· ABC plans on remaking the British drama Spooks (known in America as MI-5), about a group spies. There is no cast yet -- or really anything -- but when you eventually see a commercial on ABC for something that remotely looks like what I just described, you'll remember this blurb fondly. [Deadline]