Hilary Booth... of course!

*taps foot impatiently* The watched torrent never arrives obviously. Still waiting.

I finally cleared off Worlds off the dvr. Sparkly pants have apparently made an unfortunate comeback in men's skating. I was nearly blinded by the costumes in some of those exhibitions.

I was startled to see a "Deep Sea Detectives" promo during one show. They've started new episodes on the History Channel and even started a new website for the show. I'm quite miffed because I've missed so many episodes already. History Channel International has started airing the sequel to "Spitfire Ace" called "Bomber Crew". I've missed the first episode of that, but they do usually repeat the series afterwards. "Dead Famous" is showing new episodes as well. Last week's episode featured the search for Rita Hayworth's ghost. That marked the first time I'd seen them acknowledge on camera that a "star" might have two personas. Rita underwent a massive change from the hispanic Margarita Cansino to the red haired goddess of "Gilda" and "Cover Girl". Usually when they did seances or tried to contact the ghosts, they always used the star name, the one given by Hollywood. Would Judy Garland answer to Judy or Frances? Marilyn or Norma Jean?

Last year Gail Porter developed alopecia, a condition that caused her hair to fall out. Rather than offer any explanations on screen, they just went about their business in the show. Gail has been wearing head scarves occasionally, but basically nothing has changed. She's just as skeptical as before and Chris still tries to change her mind.

Upon reflection, I realized that all of the above shows are British made, which says a lot about my viewing habits, doesn't it? Or the sad state of American tv.

GIP from iconic_notions. Between this and the Paul Newman one, I obviously like old Hollywood blonds.

A&E has been running the old episodes of MI5 on Fridays, so I've been playing catchup. The only one I'd actually seen was the ASH episode in season one. Ironically, that was the one A&E screwed up, somehow having the right sound but Imus in the Morning as the video for the first half. *blinks* And there's Hugh Laurie using his real accent... how amusing.

According to Tim Minnear, "effective immediately" Wonderfalls is cancelled. Moving the show to Thursday was such a bright move Fox. Could you kill it any faster? At least I still have the last three on the DVR to watch. Not that I was really attached to the show... yet. I was willing to give it a chance though, unlike Fox.

I finally got around to watching my tapes from last night. "Alias" was another great episode, though I'm about ready to throttle Jack Bristow. (And Victor Garber manages that sinister but remote "Dear old Dad" thing *so* well) Who's the manipulator here - Mom or Daddy?

I also watched TNT's "The Big Time". After their treatment of "Witchblade", I marvel that I can say nice things about this network, but they still manage to put together some quality original movies occasionally. This one was set at the dawn of television in the 1940s. "Big Time" had the nostalgic feel of "Remember WENN", but *with* a budget. It's a pity TNT didn't pick up the option for a continuing series for this one. There was a lot of potential in the different characters and interplay. Even if I wanted to slap that golden boy ad man every once in awhile...

Work was the usual mess. Our delivery service included a misdelivery for a different location, plus left off some regular papers. The real load of mail didn't arrive until I was already printing out tomorrow's routing slips so I could leave. Our stay-in-school CJ student left Friday for a real job as a "community officer", which in DC parlance means parole officer.