Shit. We canned the Christmas festivities this year, for the most part, and we just sat around watching movies. Nothing new—all stuff obtainable via cable. (The folks have become enamored of “On Demand” viewing.)

Titles include Monster House (excellent, if a little creepy), Inside Man (not bad, but completely predictable), Madagascar (painfully stupid) The Sentinel (would [...]

Bones is an interesting show. For a long time, I actively avoided watching it, because in my head it was filed in with the police procedurals (of which it may, in fact, be one) and dismissed summarily—which is how I always treat police procedurals, and how I will treat them until Aaron Sorkin writes one.

However, [...]

Also, you know I’m always ready to promote the cause of killer carnivorous kangaroos.

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I’m very much enjoying the fact that Renee et al now have cable. Let me mention some examples from premium-channel television, specifically from Showtime—despite the fact that I strongly disapprove of sticking good shows in the class-delimited cultural ghetto of premium cable. As per Studio 60, “all good things should flow into the boulevard.”

Dexter

Dexter is [...]

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Pushing Daisies coming to ABC - TV Squad

Slap another “supernatural” series on the pile. Heroes writer and executive producer Bryan Fuller is creating a drama pilot for ABC called Pushing Daisies about a man who can bring people to life just by touching them. I’m pretty sure there was a book that used this same [...]