Radiation by Fiona Rae

I was shocked (shocked!) when they found Claire's body in the skip. Nice one, Shorters! You haven't surprised me since Mackenzie blew up the clinic, but that was good!

In other shows, I've watched Lorelei singing "I will always love you" three times now and it makes me cry every single time, the sheer elegance of Lauren Graham, the way with one tiny pause she can convey so much emotion. Season six and seven's lameness has been totally and utterly redeemed by that one scene.

Yeah, Freeview has been a big disappointment. My signal is crap but I can't afford Sky so I was looking to Freeview to improve my reception. But $299 for a set top box to give me four FTA channels?!?! As Griffin points out, you can get a PS2 for less and it plays games and DVD's! Clearly the ppl behind Freeview are taking a very casual approach to its launch but I'll be damned if I'll jump on board until they get it sorted.

BTW - your link to EW.com led me to their story on Nip/Tuck. Evidently in the new series (in the US) Rosie O'Donnell returns, and the boys move shop from Miami to LA. Ha! I didn't even realise the show was set in Miami! US TV is so homogeneous: it's all shot in either LA or Toronto/Vancouver anyway, regardless of it's supposed on-screen location.

Lauren Graham has never been nominated for anything for that role, has she? It's really a travesty. She deserves a special award just for carrying off speeches that long - let alone making them funny or moving or both. (I also cried right through that karaoke scene.)

I'm getting pretty sad about the end of Gilmore Girls, actually. I got so annoyed way back in season three, by the whole 'let me break up with the boyfriend who MADE ME A CAR and date that sub-James-Dean dickhead' storyline, that I don't think I truly appreciated how incredibly strange it was to hear Elvis Costello and XTC featured prominently on a show soundtrack. 'Then She Appeared'? They really played that, or was I hallucinating?

And on another topic, my favourite Hustle & Flow review. The animated booty-clap gif alone is worth the click.

Lauren Graham has never been nominated for anything for that role, has she? It's really a travesty.

She won a Family Television award, and two Teen Choice awards, and was nominated for a Golden Globe, People's Choice Award, Satellite Award, four Golden Satellite Awards, Two Screen Actors' Guild Awards, and two Television Critics Association Awards.

What she hasn't had is an Emmy nom (or nod) - even when the Academy saw fit to introduce something dubbed the "Lauren Graham Rule".

Heh. I presume she knows that you're stalking her, Graeme? The tubes tell me that the Family Television awards are shown on the CW, GG's network. You'd think she'd have managed more than one award from them, dammit!

By the way, I forgot to say earlier: Stephen Colbert is so funny that he hurts me. I laughed out loud about five times reading those two pages in EW. And his book is called I Am America (And So Can You!)? Snort! I don't understand why we have The Daily Show now, but no one's managed to convince anyone at C4 to screen The Colbert Report too - particularly as we get teasers for it in the final Daily Show segments...

SPOILERS AHOY! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ETC.

Season three of Rescue Me starts on TV1, although Tommy is such an ass that it can get tedious.

Until you hit episode three, where Tommy rapes his ex-wife - which is a plot turn that's anything but tedious, just not in a good way. I've never been accused of being a paragon of feminist sensitivity - and am a huge fan of shows like The Wire, The Shield & Deadwood that aren't oversupplied with SNAGs - but enough is enough.

season seven of Gilmore Girls has been so dull (on the most part), that at least they managed to not screw up the ending. As EW put it, "The current Sherman-Palladino-less, death-blow season was more accurately Gilmore Ghosts, as the exhausted actors bumped into the furniture searching for their departed souls and smart punchlines."
Still worth it to watch Lauren Graham, tho. She is fantastic ( and check out her performance in Bad Santa, the best xmas movie ever)

"the fabulous Weeds"? Hmmm - all I saw was a few munchies jokes in a suburban skin. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention.

Ooh-er! Who's going to be the first local network to get their dibs on this new offering from HBO ??

No previous series, on pay cable or anywhere else, has dared show anything even close to this much skin; the climax, if you will, of the first episode finds a woman (Sonya Walger) in her 30s masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm, with the entire act and all relevant body parts plainly visible.

"the fabulous Weeds"? Hmmm - all I saw was a few munchies jokes in a suburban skin. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention.

Well, lessee. I love several things about Weeds. Here are a few:

a) Elizabeth Perkins. She plays that 'wonderfully bitchy best friend' role perfectly.
b) The non-saccharine relationships between our friendly neighbourhood drug-dealing mother, Mary-Louise Parker (who rules) and her two kids. They seem to have been drawn from life rather than from some idealised notion of what parent-child relationships should be.
c) In... Sunday's?... episode, little dude referred to spying on his older brother having sex as 'an accident! An AWESOME accident!' I laughed for minutes and minutes at that.
d) Elvis Costello sang the theme song in the last episode.
e) There is no moralising about drugs.
f) Kevin Nealon is in it. I like him.
g) That other dude from The 40 Year Old Virgin is in it. I also like him.

OK, that is all.

Well, lessee. I love several things about Weeds. Here are a few:

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h) MLP is a, ahem, yummy mummy.

Hell, I'd watch Antique Roadshow if she was fronting it.