Buzz News Roundup, 5/16

• "24" will be back for two more years, says the Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, a final verdict on "Veronica Mars" might not come this week after all, writes TV Guide.
• No matter what happens to "Veronica," its star Kristen Bell will narrate the new "Gossip Girl" series, according to Entertainment Weekly.
• Billboard reports that Ben Folds will headline his own Jamaican cruise, The Ben Folds Experience, leaving from the Port of Miami next February.
• According to BBC News, Mischa Barton has joined the cast of St. Trinian's, a 1950s-style comedy also starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth.
• Variety says The Women in Film Foundation has announced the winners of the 2007 Film Finishing Fund who will receive money to complete their film projects.
• Weirdly, Michael Buble is atop the Billboard charts — with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, of all people, right behind.
• The AP says Beyonce has been nominated for six BET awards.
• Mena Suvari will star in an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden, Variety reports.
• "House" actually beat "American Idol" in the key 18-49 demographic on Tuesday, Zap2it reports.