I just want to say three things:

1) MAJ, you are awesome, and thanks for this site. Keep up the good work. Even if you are biast (You don't have the quote up anymore, so I'm not sure I misspelled that correctly.

2) I think it is a crime that The Wire is receiving no awards nomination love for its final season. Andre Arroyo should have gotten a nomination at least. What's up with that?

3) January Jones is great in Mad Men, but where is the love for Elizabeth Moss?

- Request submission for "Kentucky Fried Movie".

- Request submission for "Sword of Gideon".

Seconding the motion to declare MAJ awesome

Also, because she does not have enough on her plate I would love to hear her thoughts on the semi-canceled series The Middleman. No other show has ever had lucha libre wrestlers battling ninja masters in aztec temples for the fate of art student superheroes (episode 3). One of the greatest shows to likely not be renewed.

Last, but not least, I cry a little every time a new giveaway occurs. Right across the border, but out of luck.

I'm wondering if anyone else saw the first episode of the new ITV series Demons? Did anyone think there was anything worth salvaging there, or is it really just the huge train wreck that I thought it was?

MaryAnn-Just wondering if you watch any tv shows you'd be embarassed (or at least be reluctant)to admit to?

I second the Middleman. I'm still trying to be good and wait to watch it legally on DVD (stupid borders) but it's really hard. I loved what I've read of the comic book it's based on- especially since the comic version of Wendy Watson is so much like one of my gamer friends it's a little scary. It should be fun to see a real geek girl turned superhero up on screen for a change.

I haven't seen Demons yet, was it really that bad?

Yes, Wendy Watson is probably the ultimate ass-kicking geek girl to ever be unleashed on television.

Unfortunately, ABC has not decided what they are doing with the series yet. It has made a few best of 2008 lists, so there is some hope. Not yet officially canceled but not yet renewed for a second season.
No announcement as far as DVD goes either. I think it is on iTunes in the US, but not sure. It's all very sad.

Here, here, for MAJ as awesome!

Am I the only one that finds it frightening that HBO is planning US version of 'Shameless'? Hollywood Reporter has a piece on it here

Re: Demons

In my opinion, it really was that bad. It plumbed the cliche of "Bram Stoker wrote non-fiction!" (I'm honestly not sure what I hate more, that or "you've read too many stories!") while bringing nothing new to the table. The acting was rather meh, and the writing tried to pass off jaded pseudo-snarkiness for something more clever. I watched about 75% and was not motivated to stick around for the "nail-biting conclusion" which was obviously headed for one of two entirely unoriginal motivations for the young protagonist to take up the mantle of demon-killing.

I MIGHT look at the next episode if there's nothing better on, just to see if it was the 1st ep set-up that was poorly executed, but I'm not holding my breath, and I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to watch again.

Re: Demons: all I could think about for much of the time was when is he going to put his shirt on?! Christian Cooke is good looking but it was so blatantly gratuitous I couldn't believe it.

Philip Glenister's American accent sounded okay to me, but I'm not American. I'll be interested to hear the informed verdict on it.

I'm sort of looking forward to Being Human (Russell Tovey),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Human_(TV_series)

but worried what might have been done to it with the cast changes and making it more BBC3-like following the wonderful and well-received pilot. How many other 1 hour TV pilots end up with a fan following across genres/ages? Perfect cast chemistry, drama, funny, dark, touching... Why change it?!

The pilot is well worth tracking down and easy to find.

David Tennant resembles Paul Waaktaar-Savoy. I first noticed the similarity at around the 0:38 mark in this video. Veeeery interesting...but what does it all mean?

I only notice it from time to time. Maybe they just have similarly shaped heads? Youtube comments are a blight upon humanity, but I admit that I sometimes have fun randomly jumping from song to song just to see where I'll end up.