I watched a little bit of the RNC last night. It scared me. I am very excited that it's the weekend. Tonight we went out to dinner at Splash! to celebrate Rick's new job. Yay for Rick! Doing a little...watching a commercial wherein Jerry Seinfeld is trying shoes on Bill Gates. WTF is this commercial for? Also, if you have never seen the sexy pictures of Bill Gates ( here and here ), you should

Looking through the blogosphere, apparently not. Sarah Palin      Tina Fey     

DD moved away to school, so you'd think the TV wars would be over. But no. See, I have a few shows to DVR: The Closer and Raising the Bar are on Monday. DH is fine with those. Actually, he pretty much... Mystery Theatre, Poker, X-Files. Okay, I love all the above expect The Weather Channel. And I have him as addicted to Gilmore Girls as I am. But his TV habits are really not working out with mine

Okay, I watched the Bones season premiere last  night, having Divo'd it.  Although both hours were filmed in England, frankly it could've been done here with the many Brit actors trawling through Hollywood... I expected more and better from a two hour special season opening.  I hope it gets better.  Going into a fourth season can be a killer for some series.  Let's hope that it isn't true for Bones.

HBO's free this weekend. I wouldn't have known if my friend Bobb hadn't broadcast the word. Usually I hear about these free weekends through DishTV in their mailings, but there was no word in the latest...notify selected markets but make the channels available nationwide? Hmm, and maybe there's an RSS feed somewhere that would announce these things. Hat tip to Bobb. I'm TIVOing a half-dozen movies

Today's TV news.  As of tomorrow Channel 4 and E4 to resume normal programming - ie endless repeats of Friends. If it wasn't for Jon Ronson, the odd Tony Marchant drama, and the occasional Michael Powell season I'd have given up on Channel 4 completely.  More 4, however, is a different matter.

Here's a little gem from the schedules of Channel Five that may not sound too promising, but turned out to be a great little series. I don't know if it's going to be repeated, or syndicated overseas, but... caravan racing, mountain bike bog snorkelling, nettle-eating, axe-throwing, Eton fives, swamp soccer, toe-wrestling, and shin-kicking -- amongst others. Somebody's put a clip up on YouTube:

We just watched the two-parter season opener of Bones . Set in the UK. Oh yes, you know what that means. Not any UK, of course, but that very specific one populated by red telephone boxes, London monuments... People suddenly become really dense or really perceptive as the plot or comedy punchline dictate. It's a dumb, amiable show. Being set in the UK just makes it grate that little bit more than normal. :-)

Man, no CBS daytime today. I can't wait for Monday, Victor's plan and Bridget's response to Nick. Did Reva jump the broom with Jeffrey? And a big STFU to Daniel. Who didn't see the showdown between... It was part of One Life to Live three years ago, it was based off a storyline involving Marcie McBain nee Walsh. I liked his style of writing so I'm off to see if he's written anything else

"And time, on television, is an extremely rare commodity. When you use up precious time to say banal things, to the extent that they cover up precious things, these banalities become in fact very important. If I stress this point, it's because everyone knows that a very high proportion of the population reads no newspaper at all and is dependent on television as their sole source of news. Television...