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Law and Order has been canceled!

This is America. None of us are supposed to be here! – 30 Rock

…than never.

Fox to cancel 24 after the current dreadful season.

There are few words able to get me to watch a new television show: written by Joss Whedon, starring Dylan McDermott and “a Gilmore Girls for the new decade.” Ok, that’s a lot of words. But so it is I came to DVR the new show “Life Unexpected.” The last one. It is not written by Joss nor does it star Dylan. I liked it! Not at all what I was expecting…blond girl from two dark haired parents always gives me pause. It involves A LOT of white people…but it’s set in Portland, so…what are you gonna do. Basically, a 16 year old foster kid tries to get emancipation, but she needs her birth parents’ signature. Once she gets them, the judge is all, well, if you’ve got signatures, you’ve got birth parents: No soup for you and sentences the girl to the joint custody for former high school paramours who havent spoken in 16 years. Hijinks. Something. We’ll see.

New Chuck. Ok, the new Chuck 2.0 isn’t *the worst* he still needs to flash before he gets all super spy…but his whiny voice irritates me and I can’t stand the will they/won’t they with Sarah. Enough already. She is WAY out of his league! End of story. Bring back sandwich girl, so she can leave Ted Mosby alone.

How I Met Your mother: How awesome was the Barney musical?? HONESTLY!!!! I hate that it looks like “the Mother” is going to be a blond. Sigh. Still held on to the hope it was gonna be Robin.

30 Rock. This new hypersexual Liz Lemon has GOT to go.

Parks and Recreation…is still airing? Why?

So, is anyone on Team Leno?

Ooh and now the drama get ratcheted up!

But I’ve learned O’Brien’s reps now believe that Zucker wants to jettison Conan altogether and put Jay back at The Tonight Show at its usual starting time. So, to prevent O’Brien competing at NBC or elsewhere with Leno’s attempt to lure back his late night audience, NBCU’s Zucker has come up with this plot to “ice” Conan for the length of his NBC Tonight Show contract. It’s dastardly, it’s cowardly, and it could be damn effective. But there’s no way Team Conan says they’re going to let that happen. Bad enough NBCU horribly humiliated Conan and, as he so rightly pointed out in his statement, will damage The Tonight Show by moving it down a half-hour. With the 12:05 AM start, its ratings will never recover. After NBC made that decision, the phones at his WME agency rang off the hook with calls from every network, cable, and pay channel looking to hire O’Brien. And there’s every reason for him to flee. But, if Conan exits voluntarily or involuntarily, it will take at least a year before a new show is readied and on the air. He risks losing his fan base during that time. And he’ll be forever tagged by the failure. So now it’s open warfare between NBC and O’Brien’s reps.

Um…yeah, that sounded a little dirty…but whatevs…
OK, Let’s talk about Harper’s Island people who have seen it! Meet ya in the comment section.

Wow. So well done! A thumb and a half up. I deduct half a thumb because they went the safe route on a certain thing that is anathema in our culture, but if they were being true to the story, would have gone through with. I am being purposefully cagey because you should all see it.
Not for children or pregnant women.

I am watching the Hall of Fame game, instead of sleeping, like a sane person in my position would do. Just saw my first commercial for the new Heroes season. Made me nauseous. I’m not ready for Fall, dammit! I’m liking my summer of virtually no television! But I won’t want to fall behind…waaa.
Stupid choices.

Unless somebody wants me to hurt my TV. My choices (and witty commentary) are in bold, below the fold. In other news, I think I may be over TV. My DVRs are full again (unwatched Weeds, PADs, My Boys’, Harper’s Island, King of the Hills,’ etc.) Alceste told me there was a good new Better off Ted and yet, I still went out to play poker and then twittered for two hours when I got home instead of watching…perhaps if TV had more of *me* on it…

List of Major Categories:

Outstanding Comedy Series
Family Guy
30 Rock
Weeds (GARBAGE with a french accent)
How I Met Your Mother
The Office (The Joe Biden of television shows)
Flight of the Conchords (quirky with a New Zealand accent.)
Entourage (Garbage with a Brooklyn accent.)

Outstanding Drama Series
Mad Men (SUCKS TOO)
Breaking Bad (SUCKS)
Lost (Craptacular)
Damages (SUCKS MORE)
Dexter (SUPER SUCKS)
Big Love (SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS (get it, cause he has three wives?))
House (Hmm…and the winner is…)
(more…)

The Miss America competition is no longer aired on network television, but the national middle school spelling bee is given a host and shown live on ABC.