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Today is New Year's Eve -- or, as some call it, Amateur Drunk Night. As we close the books on 2008, it's likely that a fair number of us will be knocking back a glass of champagne or five, or perhaps a couple of nice cocktails.
I'm usually not one to make New Year's resolutions for myself. When I have, I've never held to them, so I stopped. That doesn't mean, however, that I'm above suggesting some self-improvement goals for others -- specifically, the people who make the TV shows we watch.
Last year we called this our "Guilty Pleasures" gallery. Then, we did
some soul-searching over the next 12 months and came to the realization
that we don't feel guilty about a single show we watch -- even Hannah Montana.
Sure, we might need to rationalize and defend it to the nonbelievers
who don't have nearly the broad TV-viewing palates that we possess, but
we're ok with that.
This is the third time around for our annual list of underrated actors/TV personalities, and we have to admit, it was a little tougher to put this one together than the past two have been.
This fall has not been a great one for television, as has been widely both here and elsewhere. Ratings are down across the board, and with the exception of CBS' The Mentalist, which started strong and has stayed that way, there are no new hits to be found anywhere. Including in this post.
It was easy to scoff at the NBC promos that called Momma's Boys -- a short-run dating show that will fill in for parts of the network's regular lineup during the winter doldrums -- "the year's most anticipated show."
When I learned that the good folks at Funny or Die were posting the second-season premiere of Flight of the Conchords, I pretty well started counting the hours until it went up. I was a bit of a latecomer to the show's first run on HBO, but once I got into it I fell hard.
When NBC announced Monday that Jack Black would guest-star in the post-Super Bowl episode of The Office, I was curious and maybe a little nervous. Now the network says it's also signed Jessica Alba, and my colleague Korbi Ghosh has broken news that Cloris Leachman will be involved in the episode as well. And I've gone from a little nervous to really nervous.
Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has said in the past that he would walk away from his show after seven seasons, and that he hoped ABC wouldn't continue it without him. Now he's reconsidering that.
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