Sweeps week!

It’s almost spring that means sweeps, guest appearances, and new shows for them to cancel on us after we become emotionally connected to characters – I’m talking to you Better off Ted producers. There’s a lot more to tlak about this week so lets get started.

How I Met Your Mother started the TV week off hilarious as usual. Laura Prepon, guested as Ted’s (Josh Radnor) pretentious college girlfriend and reminded us why we loved her on That 70’s Show - and October Road, for the three of us who watched it. Rumor has it she’ll be on for a few more episodes. Could she be Ted’s kid’s future mother? Chances are it’s just another tease from the writers. Can you blame them? The show’s basically over when he meets the mother.

Next on CBS, Sci-Fi vixen Summer Glau did an episode of The Big Bang Theory, a terminator on a show about archetypical nerds? I really like this show but I worry sometimes that they’ll run out of Ren-fair, comic book, and intergalactic-space-pirate jokes but for now it manages to still hold some of my attention.

24 wasn’t as good as last week. Bill Buchanan, the ex-head of CTU, sacrificed himself to save the President and the White House hostage crisis ended. Too bad it was only the 8PM to 9PM episode. The whole thing feels to forced maybe this year it should have been called 12.

At this point in the blog I’d love to be able to say that Heroes was awesome this week. Well it wasn’t even on and the last few weeks haven’t been that good. Why is it moving so slowly? Lets go heroes, hero already! Big hopes for Mondays episode which is sitting in my DVR backlog waiting to disappoint me.

weeOOOweeOOOweeOOO Reality-TV time!!! Bad Girls Club was eventful as ever Whitney aka Boston, and Ailea both went home for jumping Amber B in Mexico. A Mexican policia officero told Whitney to “leave town” before someone filed a formal complaint. How weird that must be to be told to leave town when you’re in Cancun. Those Bad Girls their like old timey outlaws. Shane! Come back Shane!

If you’re a fan of food competitions you have two options right now. Hells Kitchen is in its fifth season. Basically the premise of the show is that Celebrity-Chef Gordon Ramsey verbally abuses contestants and whoever has the thickest skin and the best ass-kissing lips get their own restaurant. Chopping Block is a new show where Marco Pierre White, the chef who trained Gordon Ramsey, verbally abuses teams of two and whichever team has the thickest skin and the best ass-kissing lips wins their own restaurant. Original.

The Celebrity Apprentice is really entertaining. KOTU (Kings of the Universe) the men’s team is terrible. They lost their third challenge in a row to Athena, the women’s team. This week Tom Green and Dennis Rodman stayed out and partied with a “model,” who may or may not have been a prostitute. I guess that’s how you loose to Khloe Kardashian’s team.



Castle’s a new show about a mystery novelist who’s partnered with a female detective while he does research for a new book. It’s smart, funny and well written. It should be cancelled shortly. It reminds me a lot of Life on NBC. Life is about a detective who was falsely convicted of murder and released after seven years in prison, and back to the police force. Life’s one of the shows I’m always cheerleading for I really hope it doesn’t get cancelled.

Kings is about a modern absolute monarchy in the US. I’m currently struggling to get through the two-hour pilot. I give it five episodes tops.

The Office was okay this week but still not so great. After Michael watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he slips ‘golden ticket’ coupons into boxes of paper. Of course they all went to the same costumer because the boxes were right next to each other. Not writing “one per costumer,” cost the company big, and nearly cost Michael his job. You know what it cost me? A half hour of TV that wasn’t as funny as it would have been two years ago. What’s going on writers? I feel like every show I watch is suffering. You selfish bastards made us wait 16 months for new shows, and they’re not even any good!

Get your acts together people!