Let the day begin! A look at the new season of '24'

If you are looking for utter realism and accuracy in your television dramas, this hasn't been your week.

We watch them week after week so really we know what's best for them. Here are my New Year's resolutions for some of our favorite TV characters:

We've spent a lot of time this month celebrating our favorite TV things of 2008. But I thought we would take a break from all the happy, happy, joy, joy and talk about some of the things we didn't like this year. Don't worry we'll be back to all the good times next week.

It occurred to me that this season with Annie (Shenae Grimes) on 90210, Meredith on Grey's Anatomy and Dr. Brenner of ER, it's kind of raining annoying characters on TV.

It's time for another edition of I'm not picking up what you're putting down . . . As much as I really really like House, I simply don't think I'm ever going to want House and Cuddy to get together.

So I wasn't going to tell you guys this. Yesterday when I was watching Anthony Edward's return to ER (Thursday at 10 p.m. on NBC), I actually said out loud "Hot diggity!

It's not that I'm jaded. But when you follow the TV industry for as long as I have, it takes a lot to shock me. And I have to say I was positively flabbergasted when news broke yesterday that Brooke Smith and her character Dr. Erica Hahn were being written out of Grey's Anatomy.