In what I can only imagine is some dangerous, misguided attempt to compete with the Rosie Quits/Hasselbeck Baby headline-making going on over at ‘The View’, fellow talker host Ellen DeGeneres injured her back — badly, it would seem — over the weekend, and as a result will conduct her Q&As this week lying down in a hospital bed posited center stage on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show.’

Among the guests being chatted up by the lying-down Ellen are Ryan Seacrest (on today) and Lindsay Lohan (on tomorrow).

Ellen is expected to disclose on air exactly how this unfortunate, unfortunate sweeps twist came to be.