Can’t shows just stick with their format without trying to become a soap opera? “Lie to Me” began as a quite interesting and entertaining show. “Bones” started out the same way. Once the characters begin to ‘develop’ and the ‘relationships’ begin, the show’s doomed. The parts that were once interesting and fresh get pushed to the side to make room for the relationships. Those are just as boring on this show as they are on all shows.

The Super Bowl is coming and my local team is not going to be in it. Or even in the playoffs. They aren’t my favorite team, so that was kind of a football gift to me. I’m a big fan of the Mets.

Just kidding. I don’t like any of the teams. It’s not because I’m a girl. It’s because MacGyver got preempted for Monday Night Football when I was a kid. I REALLY resented that and ever since, I haven’t liked football.

I’m usually a couple of years behind on the trends of the day, but on the plus side, it does allow me to get things at a pretty good discount. For TV shows, it lets me not have to wait between weeks to watch all of the episodes of a season. After finally seeing my first episode of Lie To Me, I have to admit that I am impressed. My first impressions of the show weren’t that good. How interesting could a show be about someone who could tell if you were lying.

Talk to you all soon, I’ve got some TV to watch.

My favorite commercial is the one with the guy on the horse. Sadly I don’t know what the commercial is for or I would do my civic duty and help the company that made the commercial by giving them some free advertising. Instead I will just tell you that while the guy says “Lookatyourmannowlookatme nowlookatyourmannowlookatme” I actually do that and then I crack up. I’ve done this at least a dozen times and I think each time I actually find it funnier than the last.

I haven’t gotten this much of a tickle from a commercial since Richard Dean Anderson reprised his role as MacGyver in a commercial. But them my life gotten pretty pathetic commercial wise lately – I almost asked my husband to stick with a commercial until I knew it’s story line today.

I just finished watching the pilot episode of Stargate:Universe and now I’m totally depressed. I can only hope that watching the next episode will lighten my mood but having just watched the intro to that one (someone’s dead and other people are cracking up) I’m starting to lose hope for this series. Maybe I should wait a season until they work out the character development and SOMEONE on the show becomes likable.

How long has it been since I saw a non-rerun show? I’m getting tired of waiting for my dramas to come back from hiatus. I think they took a break before the Olympics started and even though CBS.com said that Bones would be returning Mar 18th I didn’t see a new episode when I tuned in. Apparently they just meant it would be on again but when someone says, “Bones will be returning Mar 18th” I assume they mean new episodes.

You feel me?

There are many vapid and unentertaining things on television these days. There really can only be that many interesting shows and with so very many networks, most things are just not good. (Heck, most shows are paid advertisements.) One of the most entertaining shows is, ironically, The Soup. This program on the E Network shows the wacky or funny clips of the uninteresting shows. In 30 minutes every Friday, you can catch up on all of the worthwhile parts of the shows that you missed during the week.

It’s kind of sad that every week there is only about 30 minutes of worthwhile stuff on all of the stupid shows that air.

Every season of television has at least one guilty pleasure that survives for a couple of years, if for no other reason, it’s an entertaining but mindless show. If we’re flipping through the channels and come across this small-screen action show, we’ll stop and watch ‘Human Target’. It doesn’t really matter a whole lot if you start in the middle of the episode, and don’t worry at all about keeping track of complicated, season-long plot lines. It’s simple, full of action and chases and kicking, and things that don’t quite make a whole lot of sense.

I can’t even begin to count the number of times that I said, “Huh!?” after watching an episode or a scene of ‘Human Target’.

Who knew that a show based around D-list (or lower) celebrities talking in front of a green screen about things they remember from decades past would be such an amazingly awesome show? I guess that the human sense of nostalgia is powerful enough to make us watch almost anything that reminds of us those wonderful bygone days of yesteryear. I’ll keep watching as long as they keep making them, and as long as there are people who look back fondly, and semi-famous people to remember too, they’ll keep making the shows for us to enjoy.

With NBC royally screwing up the only good thing on the entire network, there is officially nothing left to watch on that beleaguered network. Conan O’Brien has slowly built a huge following among American audiences that could have kept NBC in high ratings long after Jay and Dave are out of the running and relaxing in retirement. But no, NBC has failed again. They lost David Letterman 20 years ago and have now lost Conan. With consistently bad decisions such as these continuing for so long, it’s no wonder that this network will soon fail.

I won’t be watching NBC anymore.

I’ll be watching Conan (wherever he ends up).

With the sad passing of Captain Phil Harris on the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch”, reality TV has lost one of its most interesting people. While most modern reality shows feature wannabe actors trying to act real, this show featured hard-working men doing the job that they do every day. America found it interesting and engaging. We will miss Capt. Harris and look forward to seeing his final season when it airs in a couple of months. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and fellow fishermen.

I’ve been spending the day watching the Leathal Weapon movies.  For some reason they’re being shown in reverse order.  I’ve gotten to see Mel Gibson’s hair grow in reverse and his blurred out naked butt.  What a great joy.  I think I see a bald spot on the side of his head.  At some point in time he stopped smoking in the movies.

I got to watch the first episode of Conan on the Tonight Show and I just finished watching the last one.  He bookended the show by having on the same guests as he did to begin with – Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell.

Definitely something to see (so watch it on hulu if you missed it).  He shredded his ID, paid homage to NBC for the good years he had with them and signed off with a rendition of ‘Free Bird’.  He (among others) played guitar while Will Ferrell did vocals and PLAYED THE COW BELL!!  Of course Max Weinberg played the drums.

What is a last show without a touching moment?  The biggest touching moment was when Conan thanked the fans for their inspirational support and asked that they reject cynicism.  But then, having Tom Hanks say that in his house Conan would always be the host of the Tonight Show comes in a close second.  The lengthy applause from the audience and the screaming and yelling that seemed impossible to end made me want to stand up and cheer myself.

I’m excited to see where Conan lands and I hope it’s soon.

Can you say rain?  Apparently we are supposed to get somewhere between 2 and 9 inches of rain tomorrow.  I can’t even fathom how 9 inches could fall in a single day but that’s the more unlikely end.  They said on the news that if we get 2 inches it will be more rain in a single day than in all recorded history (which around here is only about 100 years).  Good thing I know how to swim.