Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Playing "Six Degrees…" is about to get an eensy bit easier. Kevin Bacon, the real-life hubby of Kyra Sedwgick, is set to direct the back half of a two-part December special wrapping up the second season of The Closer, TNT announced on Wednesday. The season-ender, airing in December following a brief hiatus for the show, will concern Brenda and Provenza’s fight to keep their jobs while on administrative leave.

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I woke up to this New York Post piece this morning. If you don’t want to read it, I can sum up for you: I’m ungrateful to be snarkily ripping on Jeopardy! in this blog entry of last week. How dare I? They made me!

I’ve met Michael Starr a couple times, and he always seemed like a nice enough guy. Which leaves me wondering: does he know how asinine this non-story is? Despite working for the Post, I’m sure his reading comprehension is just fine. He knows there’s no way I was genuinely calling for angry bees and ventriloquist’s dummies to be added to the Jeopardy! format. It’s a humor piece, and one which gets its laughs from the outrageous non sequiturs it proposes, not the ripeness of its target for criticism. For the record: I’ve loved Jeopardy! since I was a kid, as anyone who talks to me for about five minutes knows. Making goofy jokes about TV shows isn’t “bashing.” I believe it’s the whole reason Al Gore invented the Internet.

I am grateful to Michael for the extra web traffic, but not for the humor-impaired sock puppet users who showed up on the message board this morning to either defend Jeopardy! or make trouble, I can’t tell which. In any case, they’ve (he’s?) violated several of our posting guidelines, and the threads will be removed shortly. I welcome reasoned disagreement on a blog entry’s strengths and flaws, but this wasn’t it.

Ken Jennings 

The PBS Kids Sprout network has fired the host of "The Good Night Show" after learning she had appeared in videos called "Technical Virgin." The host, Melanie Martinez, had alerted network officials about one of the videos late last week and she was immediately taken off the air. "PBS Kids Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character’s credibility with our audience," said Sandy Wax, network president.Airing for three hours each evening, "The Good Night Show" airs soothing stories and cartoons designed to get an audience of 2-to-5- year-olds ready for bed. Each night, Martinez guides a puppet character into dreamland. Martinez is a stage actress and mother of a toddler.
In the two "Technical Virgin" videos _ made before she landed the children’s show job _ she spoofs PSAs about how young women can keep their virginity. PBS Kids Sprout airs children’s programming 24 hours a day and is seen in about 20 million of the nation’s 110 million television homes. "The Good Night Show" has been temporarily replaced by cartoons while a search is conducted for a new host.

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I think that is such BS, she did that before she landed the job. As long as she is not doing it while she is on the show what is it their business. Also what normal parent would let their 2-5 year old watch something called "Technical Virgin?" Actually those videos kind of sound interesting and I would like to see them!

HBO announced at Wednesday’s Television Critics Association summer press tour that the 10-episode second season of Rome, premiering in January 2007, will likely be its last. Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht explains, "It’s an enormous undertaking to do a regular series 6,000 miles away in a foreign country." (As if Vancouver can’t pass for Italy.) In other HBO news: Starting in September, the movie showcase which has called Saturday night home for 15 years is moving to Sunday, opposite NBC’s new NFL coverage, followed by The Wire; Larry David is close to signing on for another, probably final round of Curb Your Enthusiasm; Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina doc, When the Levees Broke, premieres Aug. 16; David Bowie, Orlando Bloom and Ian McKellen are among the guest-stars lined up for Season 2 of Extras, arriving in January; a Kelly Clarkson concert will air in February; and Big Love’s sophomore season is a good bet to bow next June.

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Kelly Monaco and Brooke Burke joined protestors in mid-Manhattan today for NoScruf.org. They say they will not shave until their man does. So all I have to say Hell no, we won’t shave until our men learn to behave!  

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