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Miley Cyrus may want keep that blond wig handy. The Disney Channel has announced an order for more episodes for the current season of her megahit show, Hannah Montana.

Season three, which kicked off Nov. 2, is still in production, but had been slated to run 24 episodes and end in May 2009. Disney did not immediately specify how many new episodes would be shot. Hannah's second season consisted of 30 episodes.

While the recent Sweet 16er is regularly forced to shoot down gossip that she wishes to drive away from the vehicle that created her, she has insisted she's "fully committed" to the series.

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It's been more than a month since the shooting deaths of Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew, but the case is picking up steam.

A day after his arrest, Hudson's estranged brother-in-law, William Balfour, was formally charged Tuesday morning with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invasion by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

At a news conference this afternoon, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said that, while Balfour has not confessed to the killings, he is "confident in the evidence."

Without going into further detail, Weis also praised the local community for the way people "stepped up to the plate and helped police solve this case."

The 27-year-old Balfour, who has been the sole focus of the Chicago Police Department's investigation from day one, is scheduled to appear for a bond hearing Wednesday afternoon.

Until then, Balfour's attorney, Joshua Kutnick, is wasting no time in defending his client, telling E! News that while Balfour may be a convenient suspect, he's not a guilty one.

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Gary Coleman's bowling for plea bargains.

The Diff'rent Strokes star pleaded no contest today to charges of disorderly conduct and reckless driving, both misdemeanors, stemming from his alleged September throwdown with a fellow kegler at a Utah bowling alley.

Coleman was ordered to pay a $100 fine for the first charge. The judge agreed to  expunge the second count if the pint-sized former kid star behaves himself for a year.

Coleman, 40, didn't take kindly to fellow bowler Colt Rushton snapping photos of the entertainer and his on-off 22-year-old wife, Shannon Price, while the pair hit the lanes. The beef purportedly ended with Coleman's truck clipping Rushton as the couple exited the parking lot.

For his efforts, Coleman also earned a civil assault suit from Rushton seeking damages for minor injuries allegedly suffered in the incident.

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Thirty years after the fact, Roman Polanski would like to move on with his life.

The 75-year-old filmmaker filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss the child-sex charge that has had him avoiding America like the plague since the 1970s.

Polanski pleaded guilty in 1978 to unlawful intercourse with a minor for having sex with a 13-year-old girl but, fearing that the judge was going to renege on the agreement to keep him out of jail, he fled the United States before being sentenced and has technically been a fugitive from justice ever since.

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Britney Spears wasn't exactly sensational. Neither were the ratings.

Sunday's MTV low-key confessional special, Britney: For the Record, averaged 3.7 million viewers, per the network.

The audience was larger than what MTV usually draws on Sundays—the network boasted of triple-digit gains in key demographics. And it was bigger than MTV's usual No. 1 show, The Hills.

But compared to trainwreck Britney of the 2007 Video Music Awards, a show that drew 7.1 million, or dramatic-comeback Britney of the 2008 Video Music Awards (8.4 million), the all-too-human Britney of For the Record was just, well, human.

Which, all things considered, isn't a bad thing.

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• Despite ScarJo's high-waisted pants and a baggy sports coat at last night's Spirit photocall, her rep tells E! News, “She is not pregnant." So don't even go there. But really, Scarlett should know a wedding + baggy clothes = totes pregnant. That's just the kind of messed up world we live in.

• Matthew McConaughey and his baby mama, Camila Alves, really are meant to be—just look at the party they're having.

• Audrina is really trying her hardest to make this Lauren-Justin Bobby hookup rumor last. Truth is, Audrina, we don't care if you called L.C. a slut.

• Madonna talks about her work in Malawi in a new Sundance documentary that aired last night. She narrates the whole thing without her English accent, crazy.

 • A reason to wake up tomorrow, as Britney Comeback Week just keeps on giving.

—ScarJo reporting by Whitney English