Tom Welling (“Clark”/Smallville) and Kristen Bell (“Veronica”/Veronica Mars)!

There will be more on our illustrious winners later. For now, kudos, and thanks for voting. It’s a proud day for the CW — last in the ratings, but first in our hearts.

It seems like only yesterday that I was declaring my love for Desmond, the best of the Lost lot. He’s back tonight with more flashbacks, and most likely some flash-forwards, too. I mean, what’s not to love? He’s tortured and well-meaning, and he even manages to make the conversation tic that should be annoying (“brother”) endearing. Also: Lost is fun again! Way fun!

New Mythbusters. Truck full of birds. I leave it to your imagination.

And finally, homeless people as zombies on South Park. Naturally.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: Last week’s first episode, followed by a new episode, of yet another Bravo Project Greenlight/Project Runway/Top Chef/Top Design clone, Shear Genius. Unfortunately the title of the show always makes me think of this.

Tonight at around 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time we will be declaring the winners of the TiFaux Madness tournament, thus concluding a month of what most of us consider to be true, unbridled madness. There have been shocking twists and turns, questionable sportsmanship, a complete lack of commenting etiquette, and even a few fun victories for the underdogs. We laughed, we cried. Etc.

We have two very close races right now — at the time of this posting, Wentworth Miller is barely edging out Tom Welling, and Alyson Hannigan has a tiny lead over Kristen Bell. So get your votes in before 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

And then, for fun, watch this.

A welcome change from coffee.

• Buy the Buffy Collector’s Set for $100 from Amazon. It’s got seasons one through seven plus bonus material.  [update: sold out.  Boo!  Hiss!]
• Pirate Master — the pirate reality show — debuts May 31. Read this: “The wannabe brigands dress in period costumes, eat such yummy authentic food as gruel — the officers get better rations — and are ruled over by an elected captain who assigns roles to the crew members and can be overthrown if he doesn’t treat his crew well. Mutiny, anyone? Each week at ‘Pirate’s Court’ — which are, according to Burnett, modeled after actual tribunals — a player is cast off the ship and set adrift on a raft. ‘If you can’t run with the crew, if you can’t swim or row or navigate, you’re a liability.’”
• Bookie odds on the next death on The Sopranos.
• Drive is a dud.
• David Mamet does Ford ads. And next, David Lynch does the new Mentos spots?
• Read the first chapter of Tim Gunn’s book online.
• The next Survivor will be filmed in China.
• Nothing official yet, but I’m just saying, prepare yourself for Veronica Mars to be cancelled. But at least new episodes begin May 1.
• An AV Club interview with Battlestar’s Ron Moore.
• If you can’t wait to watch Painkiller Jane, click here to watch the pilot.
• A new Ask Ausiello is up. Spoilers about death on Lost and the future of Veronica and Logan.
• This Washington Post article about pre-empting primetime for news coverage rubs me the wrong way.