But wouldn't airing a tape supplied by the network cost a hell of a lot less than sending one of their own?

As someone who works in broadcast/news footage sales, this made me laugh out loud. News networks? NSM with the giving away stuff for free. (Some networks were making footage available for free in the immediate aftermath, but we're way past that now. At this point, if you want footage, you pay through the nose for it, and most affiliates don't have any budget for that sort of thing. They DO have budgets for sending reporters overseas.)

LJ -- it's just off the cuff for "was a bad experience, feel tawdry for it." Doesn't stand up to comprehensive scrutiny.

VM is currently in my "something to do" territory. I wish something I watched on Wednesdays would move opposite it.

damn people are silly. Just read teh following on a restaurant write up:

"Non-meat successes include the superb rabbit stew--sweetened with pearl onions and a touch of fortified wine--and the braised lamb shanks with orzo."

I wish something I watched on Wednesdays would move opposite it.

I'd like to check out Life As We Know It, but it's moving opposite The O.C. (Theoretically I could tape The O.C. and watch LaWKI, but I'm that requires a lot of planning and forethought -- in my world, at least -- so I don't know if it'll happen.)

I liked LaWKi, but not enough to bother taping it.

What hour long shows have been cancelled so far this season?

eta found it hunh. more than I thought since Sept.

What hour long shows have been cancelled so far this season?

Scripted? Hawaii's gone, Dead Like Me will not be returning, and dr. vegas and Clubhouse and LAX are cancelled too.

eta: Most of those aren't this season, though. Just the top seven or so.

What was Still Life? I don't even remember that.

As someone who works in broadcast/news footage sales, this made me laugh out loud.

Glad I could amuse. I'll try to be more clear the next time I'm wishing for a more idealized world when I know the reality is otherwise.

eta: I'll also try to avoid starting conversations that make me grumpy.

Still Life? Couldn't tell ya.

Reasons to love Greg Grunberg:

"During that scene they literally were like, 'Take off your shirt!' " Greg says. "And he [Michael Vartan] said to them, 'No!' And I said, 'Dude, come on. If I looked like you, I'd take my shirt off in every scene. I'd be walking around that set naked! My god, I'd be holding all those important faxes between the cheeks of my ass.' "

Does Jon stewart get a medal? A cookie? A monkey?

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"I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp," Klein told The Associated Press.

He said all of the cable networks, including CNN, have overdosed on programming devoted to arguing over issues. Klein said he wants more substantive programming that is still compelling.