19 posts tagged “studio 60”

CBS canceled Viva Laughlin after just two airings. In four days. I think I made it about halfway through the pilot. Even the appearance of Hugh Jackman couldn't save this thing. Once again, American TV has taken something British and excellent and turned it to crap. Good on ya, CBS. At least you had the good sense to cancel it before it got too embarrassing. It will be replaced by The Amazing Race starting November 4th. A CSI rerun will air instead this coming Sunday. This is the first season pass on the Tivo to go this season. Not that it's a huge surprise. I think I added it just so I'd have something to delete.

In other news, Lost keeps announcing new cast members. How big can this cast get before its gravitational pull turns it in to a black hole? Or, you know, a bigger black hole. There are some vaguely name actors in the list of new names, but it's not even worth digging them out.

It would appear that many critics have now seen the BSG movie Razor which airs on SciFi on November 24th. That's the Saturday after Thanksgiving for those of you playing at home. I'm trying not to read too much about it because I want to be surprised, but the one thing I've seen says we should get some quality space battles. Something that was sorely lacking in the last season. SciFi is starting to put out videos to get people excited about Razor. I haven't watched them yet, but you can bet I'll be checking them out.

Ellen DeGeneres had a complete meltdown about the adoption of a dog. I'm not sure I care, but it's out there so I thought I'd mention it. Google/YouTube is your friend if you want to see what the hubbub is about.

The Tivo series 3 and HD boxes are rolling out support for eSata drives. So owners of the new Tivos can add capacity by simply plugging in an external hard drive. No more warranty voiding mucking about inside. Nice! Now if only they made one that worked with DirecTv I'd be all over it. I'm still not willing to give up my DirecTivo. Given a choice between HD and my Tivo, the Tivo wins hands down. I've never had HD so I don't know what I'm missing and I don't know what I'd do without the Tivo.

Jon Stewart extended his Daily Show contract to 2010.

I don't know if any of you noticed, but Stephen Colbert announced he was running for President, but only in South Carolina. It looks like this is increasingly agitating some folks out there. Some folks claim he's breaking election laws by using his show and Comedy Central to campaign. Colbert was apparently on Meet the Press this Sunday. Is that taking the joke too far? Nah. Adding Sen Larry Craig (of the MSP bathroom sex scandal) as his running mate? Kind of genius.

The complete series of Studio 60 is out on dvd.

I jumped the gun on the shark jumping CSI:NY episode. It airs this week. The previews are horrifying and hilarious. I just can't turn away. Any time you see Gary Sinise yelling "Log out! NOW!" you just have to stand back in awe of the awfulness. And I love Gary Sinise. He's the reason I started watching this junk in the first place. I kinda feel bad for him with the horrible dialog and ridiculous plots they make him play at.

I'm still a little over a week behind with my own TV watching at the moment. It would appear that in the battle between sleep and TV, sleep is currently winning. Go figure.

I just finished watching the last Studio 60, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. For the the three shows that Aaron Sorkin has made for tv, this is the only he got to in any way finish. I'm pretty sure he wrote these last episodes knowing the show was ending, and it was pretty interesting to see what he would do with that knowledge. He certainly has his tricks. Anyone who has seen more than one of his series has seen the way his style works as well as re-using episode titles. Studio 60 was an interesting failed experiment. It didn't change my opinion about him being one of the best writers working these days, I just think his choice of subject matter was iffy. It was a little too much inside baseball and a little too heavy handed preachy. I think the show improved once they stopped trying to make the show within the show funny. Anyway, it's done, most things got resolved, and in a fairly satisfying way. Aside from the episode called The Disaster Show, it finished strong. A little preachy, but it is Sorkin after all. I did appreciate how the happy endings weren't pure sap and left enough loose ends to use your imagination. I hope he comes back to tv again. He will be missed.

After all the recent season and series finales, what are you watching on TV these days?

Huh, well, isn't this one amazingly appropriate? There's pretty much nothing. I'm sticking with Studio 60 until the bitter end. Which I think is another couple of weeks. Tonight is part 2. Next week is part 3. I'm pretty sure there won't be a "President Bartlet is shot" type of cliffhanger. And Sorkin seems determined to send it off with a big ol' meta F-you to television. Holy crap.

Beyond that I think I'm down to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

And since there's nothing else on, tomorrow is the Bob Barker's last show of The Price is Right. And if you miss it during the day, it's being rerun right before The Daytime Emmy's.

You know how I mentioned that Studio 60 returned this week? Forget I said anything. That was a horrible hour of tv. Truly bad. First off, where were the three main characters? Nowhere. Aaron Sorkin must have called in a favor to get Allison Janney to be the "host" of Studio 60 for the week. What a train wreck. Allison Janney and Timothy Busfield had such great chemistry on The West Wing. The ease with which they work together might have been this episode's only saving grace. I think it was supposed to be a screwball comedy, but it just didn't work. I honestly don't know how many episodes are left, they're just showing the rest of the ones they filmed, but I think I can safely say you won't miss anything if you don't watch.

I spent a chunk of this grey Sunday catching up on the rest of the shows I had on the tivo. So now I'm caught up on Scrubs and The Riches. I really enjoy Scrubs, but for some reason it's always the last thing I watch. Every time I watch The Riches I almost shut it off after 20 minutes, but for some reason I keep watching. I think Eddie Izzard is really doing an amazing job with this show. I still don't quite get what it's doing, but I apparently can't stop watching. I think tomorrow's episode is the season finale. Scrubs is done for the season. I'm ambivalent about the path it took. I think they've been picked up next season, but for a shortened order. I can't imagine it going another season after that, so my guess is that they'll actually try to wrap it up next season.

Now I've really got nothing to watch. Maybe I'll actually get, you know, life stuff done for once. Nah. That'll be the day. I'm down to things like the shows about the Knights Templar that Tivo records for me. The one I've got right now is narrated by Leonard Nimoy. I feel like a child watching In Search Of... again.

It looks like Tiger Woods Golf on the Wii might become a huge time suck. I also just got Zelda for the Wii, but haven't dared get it out yet. Mario Party 8 comes out next week as well. I'm going to hold out on that one as long as I can.

The three biggest finales of the season were this week and Veronica Mars rode off in to the sunset. I'm going to ruin the Lost finale three paragraphs down, so stop reading now if you don't want to risk it.

I really enjoyed the last few episodes of Veronica Mars and was actually very sad to see it go. This season was so inconsistent. We spent a lot of the season wondering where the hell all the regulars had gone. Wallace, Mac, Weevil, all MIA for a lot of the season. The last few episodes of the season/series had the whole gang. I even grew to like Piz as the season wore on and was glad he got the girl. Even Deputy Leo made a return for the final few episodes. I think it was watching Veronica walk away after casting her vote and realizing that we'll never know what happens next that bummed me out. Goodbye Veronica Mars.

And now in reverse order of how much I cared, here are the three big season finales from this week. First up, 24. This season of 24 actually sucked. I was surprised at exactly how much it could suck considering we'd made it through the daughter attacked by a mountain lion season and lived to tell the tale. I used to think the way this show told stories was kind of stupid, but it turns out if you take that same story and make it more like a soap opera, it's worse. Love triangles? Like, how many of them were there? Sheesh. The office romances used to be kind of fun on this show, but this season they were just stupid. Except for the Bill Buchanan/Karen Hayes thing. Didn't see that coming at all from the previous season but it was a great idea. Making the woman head of the NSA and having to fire her counter terrorist husband? Genius. Plus it set up several great Bill is a badass moments when he had to go rogue to save Jack. Bill has become my favorite not-Jack character since they offed Tony last season. The finale was fun, it mostly went down like it was supposed to. Jack saves the day, loses the girl, prevents a war. You know, the usual. Knowing Kiefer Sutherland is signed for three more seasons takes some of the suspense away as to the ending. Rumor has it that the next season will be somewhere outside of LA. Where else will they be able to get everywhere they need to be in 10 minutes every time?

Next, Lost. The last time I talked about Lost I mentioned that it was going to be a surprise and/or a relief when the finally killed Charlie. This was so well done. He died well. A great story line in an overall mediocre episode. I loved the way he dealt with the women who were torturing him. He had such a great attitude. He went down there ready to die, so being threatened didn't bother him one bit. There are a lot of people out there complaining about the way he died. To them I say: which show were you watching? It had to go down that way. If what you're hanging on to is the fact that he maybe could have closed the door from the outside, let me remind you that he and Des were in an underwater radio jamming station off the coast of an island that doesn't exist with polar bears and smoke monsters and strange indigenous peoples who are led by a crazy dude who talks to a chair in a cabin in the middle of the jungle thinking it's some sort of divine messenger. Moving on. First off, who the frak was in the casket?! Does it really have to be that big of a mystery? Oooh, spooky, let's watch Jack be crazy in the future that will never be and not tell you why he's upset. Speculate all you want, I'm not wasting any more energy thinking about it. This is exactly the kind of crap I started to hate about Lost. Is it really so important that we don't know? Ok, so theories? Nope. You know what? I don't care. It's entertaining and if I think too much about it it just makes me angry. Fun show, but way beyond me caring about what's actually going on. I used to want to figure it out. All I figured out is that there's nothing to figure out. Mostly I think I'm still watching to see how big a train wreck it can become. I know I'm not supposed to compare Lost and Heroes but I can't help but think about the fact that the Heroes future episode a) told you from the get go they were in the future b) made you completely buy the vision of the future even though you knew it wouldn't happen that way and c) was made of awesome. Lost did the opposite. Yes, I figured out it was a flash forward almost immediately. Yes, I understand it's a future that won't happen. But do they have to be such dicks about it? There were some great moments in the show, don't get me wrong. I still like it, just not for the reasons I used to. Loved the Hurley in the van moment. Loved that Tom the Other didn't kill the three captives and then Sawyer plugged him anyway. Loved the dark turn Sawyer is taking. Loved the fact that Penny almost got to talk to Des. Loved that fact that you just can't kill patchy. Wanna bet he's still not dead? Loved Jack beating the snot out of Ben. Really loved the first words Rousseau ever spoke to her daughter. Loved the body count. At least they're not afraid to kill characters on this show. It's what happens when good writers have bad material. All hat, no cattle. Rest in peace Charlie Pace.

Well, that was more of a tirade that I expected. Which brings us finally to Heroes. I've read a lot of comments on the interweb from people who are disappointed at the Heroes finale. Again, I say to them, which show were you watching? This was a great season finale. It payed off the season while setting up next season without being an irritating cliffhanger. The only complaint I can relate to is that I wanted a little more action in the big fight. Great setup, good job bringing all the Heroes together. Sylar's not dead. Which I have to admit I didn't get on the first viewing. So the question remains, did he crawl in to the sewer or was he dragged by the bigger badder bad that Molly won't look for? After killing two in the penultimate episode, it was almost a little disappointing that nobody actually died in the finale. Several potential mortal woundings, but we didn't see anyone actually die. Yet. I loved this show all season and, after a slew of disappointing season finales, was very pleased to see this one deliver. I'm really hoping they don't suffer a sophomore slump. I'm looking forward to next season very much when we learn that the samurai from the stories is really Hiro's dad. Or something.

And tonight? The beginning of the end for Studio 60. It returns in ER's slot to show the rest of the episodes they've already filmed. There will be no more.

Liverpool lost the Champions League 2-1 to AC Milan. I'm sure you were all dying to know that.

I think the only finale left is House. Which is next Tuesday. Guess I better make sure my Netflix queue is current. Or start playing more video games. Or both.

Whew. I've been busy enough lately that I haven't been updating. That and nothing earth-shattering has happened anyway. So here's what's on my little entertainment brain...

First and foremost I guess I should mention that the Oscars are on tomorrow. Since I haven't seen a single nominated movie, I care less about them this year than usual. Of course the tivo is set. Of course I'll watch it. But I'm not making an event out of it like I sometimes do. Also on Sunday nights, my new reality series The Amazing Race. So far I've only seen one episode, but it's really entertaining. This is an all star edition, and the best quote of the show came from one of the other contestants: "We know Rob and Amber because, obviously, we live on the planet." Bwahahaha! I think it's hilarious that we have an all star of all stars reality tv couple. How many shows have they been on now? I lost count. And so far I don't miss Survivor.

The Black Donnellys starts this Monday. NBC did that thing they did with Studio 60 where they made the pilot available from Netflix. And, shocker, I didn't actually get it. So I'll be watching Monday night with the rest of y'all to see how it is. It's getting middling reviews. And I've even seen some people who say that the pilot is really good and they're still not going to watch it. It certainly won't kill me to have one less hour of tv on Monday nights. It also looks as if NBC is rerunning the pilot on Thursday in ER's slot. They've really been promoting it, so I guess that makes sense. Oh, and speaking of which, anyone want to lay odds on whether Studio 60 is coming back? I think it's dead. I guess if The Black Donnellys does even worse in the same slot it might come back. But they'd probably just replace it with a rerun of Deal or No Deal.

Heroes is officially my favorite show on tv. BSG has been sucking wind a little lately and Lost is staging a comeback, but I'm still not sold. I just think the execution of Heroes is so great. There's actual content and story progress every week. And it's just ridiculous enough. It's not postmodern ironic like it could have gone, and it treats the viewer like an adult even though it's basically a comic book in tv form. Now if they could just find a way to excise the Niki/Jessica subplot or at least make it interesting, it could be even better. And why does Mohinder have to be such a sucker? I guess because he thinks Sylar is locked up somewhere that the psycho riding with him to find all the other "gifted" folk is just a little odd? I think the killing of the super hearing lady proves Sylar isn't thinking things through. I'd suspect that Mohinder is going to catch on at some point and I think it would have been smarter to follow him around to find all these people first and then pick them off menu-style starting with the most badass powers first. Instead he kills the first one they come across? Seems rash. I'm still loving the Peter character development. I never understood the motivation of Claude teaching him, or even why Peter thought he could in the first place. But it seems to be working. Turns out all Peter needs is some sort of proximity to the power and it alters his DNA or some such nonsense. It's shaping up to be an epic battle between Sylar and Peter. They'll have the same powers, but Peter might not know about all of them. Classic good vs evil. I'm also still enjoying the ambiguity of which side a lot of the characters are on. Or the fact that some of them aren't on any side but their own (see: Nathan). And I totally didn't see the Simone thing coming this week, but I can't say I'll miss her. Just gives Peter something to be super pissed about. I think in the next couple of weeks we get to finally meet Linderman. Will it be when Hiro gets his sword? I could go on forever about this show (clearly). So great, so much fun.

I'm enjoying the second mini mystery on Veronica Mars more than I enjoyed the first one. The death of the Dean is so much more interesting than the rape storyline. I really like the twist of the forensics professor who literally wrote the book on the perfect crime being the chief suspect. Now if they could just bring the regulars back in to the fold, I'd be satisfied. I miss Wallace. Several interesting twists this week, the biggest being that Keith is back as Neptune's sheriff. Too bad it had to happen at the expense of Lamb, he was such a great foil for both Keith and Veronica. What's going to happen to Keith's open investigations? And does this mean that Veronica can now get whatever info she wants in a slightly more legit fashion? I think father and daughter will butt heads over some of the legalities of V's activities now that Keith has to be above reproach.

And I'd be remiss if I left the return of Lost out of the discussion. So here's a question. Have we learned anything we actually care about? We've been given tidbits about the Others, learned that Jack's tattoos mean something akin to Stranger in a Strange Land (hence the title of the episode), and learned that Desmond can see that Charlie is going to die and he's trying desperately to stop it, but knows he can't. We caught a glimpse of the captured Tailies and saw some of the abducted kids. And then learned exactly zilch about what they've been up to and why they're just roaming around on exile island like that. "Just here to watch"?! WTF? Oh, ok, we learned that Ethan (season one, abducted Claire, shot by Charlie) was the Other's only surgeon until they grabbed Jack. So, that seems like a poorly thought out plan sending the doctor to go undercover and do dangerous stuff. I take that as another sign that the writers are still making it up as they go with no actual plan. I did enjoy Desmond's timebending flashback episode. It was entertaining storytelling, but what exactly was the point? So the jury's still out on Lost, I guess. I've really enjoyed the first two episodes back from the break, but it all still has the patina of "this better be going somewhere good" in my mind. And I think the move to 10:00 was stupid. It's hasn't won the timeslot since the move, and I only see the numbers trending down. So maybe we won't have to wait until year five for some answers, just so long as they give us some before it gets canceled.

I have recorded and not watched The State Within, the BBC miniseries about terrorism. Supposed to be really good. I'll write about it after I've seen it. But it reminds me that the new Robin Hood is coming up on BBC America. I think I mentioned it already, but it starts March 3. There are some other new shows coming up that I'm looking forward to. Fox made it official that Drive will start on April 15 with a two night premiere and they've been promoting the heck out of it, which is great. I hope it's good. Other than Eddie Izzard's new show, The Riches (March 12), I think that's it for my interest in the midseason shows. I sure hope so, because I think you'd all agree that I don't actually need to be watching any more tv.

Then of course there are the British shows that are not technically available. I've started watching season two of Life on Mars, and have finally become intrigued enough to consider Torchwood. Maybe this summer when there's no other new tv on. I'm also hearing good things about The Wire and Rome, both available on dvd now.

I've officially started watching 30 Rock, thanks to a glowing recommendation from Lynn and Scott. So now I've got all of the Thursday night comedy block on NBC, minus The Office, which I still have no desire to watch. I watched the Joss directed episode, which was the only time I've ever made it through an entire episode. It was ok. Loved that the episode he directed had a vampire theme. Genius. I think NBC has finally found another great set of Thursday shows, and I hope they don't screw it up. Oh, right, they're pulling 30 Rock to debut the new Andy Richter show on March 15th. I guess it probably gives it a decent shot at being watched, but is it a smart move? And if it takes off, where will they put it when they bring 30 Rock back?

Not sure I've said anything about the current season of 24 or not yet. It's still very much 24, but it's lacking that certain something this year. Still entertaining in a five-year-old-telling-a-story way and just as over the top as before, but not as stellar as last season. I think the Chloe-Morris-Milo love triangle is pointless. And while it was an interesting idea to make Jack's family part of the baddies, it didn't carry as much weight as I thought it would. They're just too one dimensional. Which is a stupid statement to make given that it's 24 we're talking about and a two dimensional character is almost too much to ask for. The guest actors have been a little disappointing as well. Chad Lowe and The Biscuit have been given really uninteresting characters to play considering they're contemplating assassinating the president. Although I have to admit it was fun to see The Biscuit get his ass kicked last week. All the president had to say was that he valued his input and he decides that maybe it's not such a good idea to kill him in the next hour? Sissy. I hope they give Ricky Shroeder more to do when he arrives on the scene.

I don't think I have any useful gossipy entertainment tidbits to drop on you today. I've not really been paying attention. I keep hearing that Britney Spears has finally lost it. But I almost feel bad for her. I said almost. Too bad she's such an idiot. Anybody who looks to Paris Hilton for guidance is, well, words fail me for how idiotic that is.

I'm sure there are a bunch of random newsish things out there, I'll hunt around later and see if there's anything else to report.

Well now, see what happens when I actually write about the shows and not just news about the shows? Long winded much? We'll see how this goes for the future. I'm not sure reviews are up my alley, but I enjoy thinking out loud about the shows.

Well, it's official. Joss Whedon is no longer writing the Wonder Woman movie. And therefore also not directing it. I was never completely sold on Wonder Woman as a film, but if anyone could do it, it's Joss. Now we'll never know.  It's not like he doesn't have anything else to do, though. He's got the Buffy Season 8 comics start in March, one more arc of Astonishing X-Men coming, started working on the Runaways comic, and the other movie he was working on called Goners.

In the six degrees of Joss vein, here's the trailer for Judd Apatow's (Freaks & Geeks, 40 Year Old Virgin) new movie, Knocked Up. It comes out on June 1. You'll see my beloved pilot in one scene in the beginning. Alan's got another movie coming up, Death at a Funeral, that was supposed to be released in April, but according to the imdb, it's been moved to July. Bummer. I wonder what the studio flinched away from in April.

One more Jossverse reference and then I'll stop, I promise. Well, maybe two, but they're related. Nathan Fillion's (Captain Malcom Reynolds) latest movie, Waitress, did really well at Sundance and I think even got distribution. And I watched his movie Slither last night on dvd. It was really good. I'm not big in to horror movies, so it was just funny enough for me to enjoy it. This one's worth putting in the queue for sure.

Can you believe I just spent three paragraphs talking about movies? Whew! I'm exhausted. Now for the tv stuff.

Studio 60 is being taken off the air in March so that NBC can premiere The Black Donnelys. I'm going to feel really guilty if The Black Donnelys is better than Studio 60. NBC is also taking 30 Rock off so they can premiere Andy Barker P.I., but they've promised to resume 30 Rock in April. They have made no such promise about Studio 60.

Let's see, what else? There was no new BSG yesterday because of the Superbowl. The commercials this year were kind of meh, but there were a few funny ones. And the game was actually kind of good.

New Heroes tonight, oh, and some show called Lost returns on Wednesday. There's an hour review show at 9 to get people caught up, and then the show itself is at 10. It looks like 10:00 is going to be it's regular slot, at least according to my Tivo. Didn't Lost used to be on at 9? Is it really going to help to have it on at 10? I think they're going to lose even more viewers with the time change. I remain strongly ambivalent about the return of Lost. I'll keep watching, for now, I guess.

Season something-or-another of Survivor starts on Thursday. This time it Survivor:Fiji. The starting twist this time is that the 19 (odd number in more ways than one) survivors start as one tribe at the beginning. I was just starting to enjoy watching Smallville on the Tivo, and I'm not giving up My Name is Earl. Maybe this is the season I give up Survivor? Probably not, since the last two episodes of Smallville have kinda sucked. I want to see where they're going with the Martian Manhunter, but the soap opera aspects of it are killing me. More Justice League, less Lana Lang!

Alright kids, chew on that for a while. It's all I've got at the moment.

I've missed Veronica Mars. A Lebowski nod in the tease? Awesome.
Researcher: It's those damn PHAT kids.
Veronica: 'Cause I take it monkeys are delicious?  And, Dude? 'girth challenged' is the preferred nomenclature. Bwhahahahahaha!
Looks like the second mystery arc is going to be kind of fun. What with the Dean's murder being exactly what Veronica wrote in her perfect murder paper for professor what's-his-name who happens to be a criminal profiler and our best suspect so far seeing as he was banging the Dean's wife and all.  And Poor Piz. The nice guy is always gets screwed. Or doesen't. Whatever. Looks like we get less than an episode before Logan and Veronica are at each other's throats again. Apparently because Logan had an encounter with a starf*cker. Idiot. I blame Dick. He leads Logan astray. Besides, Rob Thomas is praying at the altar of Joss: Happy couples = boring television. Round and round on the LoVe (I can't believe I just typed that) carousel we go. At least he hasn't totally pulled a Joss and killed Logan.

(here be Heroes spoilers, stop reading if you haven't seen it yet)
Heroes is back! Hooray! We met the next hero right at the end. I was hoping to see more of him since they'd been making a big deal out of it. Invisible man. He's played by Christopher Eccelston who played the ninth Doctor Who. And now that I look at IMDB, all sorts of other things I liked. Cool. Apparently he's going to stick around for a couple episodes. Loved the bit with nuke man playing with fire in the desert. Hm, and Peter's trying to get out to the Nevada desert so that he can't become a bomb. Does that seem like the wrong plan to anyone else? Mister I-can-absorb-powers is going to meet nuke man in the desert and become a bomb anyway. Or at least that's what we're supposed to think. They've been teasing the fact that nuke man might be the bomb in question. Are they really going to follow through with that? Seems almost too obvious. Peter's dream sequences were well done, too. I enjoyed the fade from white the episode started with. I love this show. So much packed in to every episode, good pacing, Hiro is still hilarious. Love it.

24 is just as over the top as ever. The reveal that that dude from ER who played a villian last season is Jack's brother I did not see coming, that's for sure. We didn't know that before, did we? And his dad is the kindly farmer from Babe. This is going to be fun. Any time Jack's going to torture a member of his own family who happens to be some sort of leader of an international terrorist organization less than an hour after shooting one of his best friends in the neck because he was trying to kill a terrorist that Jack swore to the President that he would protect and then claiming he couldn't do this sort of thing any more because he just spent 20 months in a Chinese prison while a nuclear bomb goes off in Valencia, I'm in. Did I mention this show is ridiculous? Can't get enough.

Studio 60 returned last night as well. This episode was so strange. I can't quite wrap my head around it. I like the characters, the actors and the writing, and yet it's just not sitting right with me. There was some great dialog in last night's episode. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats. I think the problem I'm having is with the weird stalkeresque relationship Danny has with Jordan. Which sucks because I love Bradley Whitford, and he was made to be a Sorkin character. Sorkin has promised that the show is going to be more of a romantic comedy now. Is that a good thing? I guess so because we'll see less of the horribly bad sketch comedy, but romantic comedy? Really? Next week's guest on the show in the show is Masi Oka, aka Hiro. That dude is everywhere. And talk about product placement, the show is like an ad for NBC sometimes.

Lots of shows returning this week.  BSG is back tonight at its new day and time.  10pm on SciFi.  Another reason I will have a hard time if I ever have to give up my DirecTv is that I get the east coast feed of a lot of channels, so I get BSG at 7.  Hooray!  Heroes returns tomorrow night as does Studio 60.  And of course there's a new 24.  Veronica Mars is back on Tuesday.  Check your tivos.

So the Golden Globe nominess were announced yesterday.  You'd think I would have been all over that, but instead I spent the day in geek land trying to debug a weird problem and didn't end up posting.

The first thing of note is that I have seen exactly none of the films nominated in any of the major categories.  The only film I've seen that was nomiated at all was DaVinci Code for Best Score or some such.  Sad, really.  I gotta get out more.

There was some good stuff in the tv categories, thought.  24, Lost and Heroes all got Best Drama nominations.  Hugh Laurie, Kiefer Sutherland, Zach Braff, Jason Lee and Steve Carell all got nominated in their respective Best Actor categories.  Sarah Paulson (Harriet) got the only nomination for Studo 60, and Masi Oka got a Best Supporting nod for Heroes.

Once again, BSG gets snubbed.  And Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, two shows I don't get at all, got a bunch of nominations.  And no love for Veronica Mars or How I Met Your Mother either.

The Golden Globes are in January.