In the great tradition of Maude and CSI: Miami (hopefully not of Joey and Private Practice), Lori and I are doing a video blog spin-off of She Made Me Watch This called Who Thought That Was a Good Idea?

Why? I blame Michelle Rodriguez. And Fox. And the writers on Women's Murder Club and Degrassi.

And even Katherine Heigl, God love her.

They've finally pushed us over the edge and driven us to dedicate a whole vlog to the week's most ridiculous, unbelievable, annoying, or just plain stupid moves made by celebrities, TV writers, movie directors, studio execs, actors, and other entertainment folks. In our opinion, anyway.

In our first episode of the new vlog, we count down the week's 5 dumbest news items — next week it might be a few more, or a few less. Depends on how dumb the week is.

See if you can guess where Degrassi's latest episode fell on the list this week... … continue reading

In this week's video blog, Lori and I disagree on who should win Hell's Kitchen, I defend My Boys, and Lori rants about Paige in the Degrassi season six finale.

Then as part of our ongoing previews of the new fall pilots, we extol the quirky virtues of Pushing Daisies (ABC), wonder how it's possible to have screwed up a remake of The Bionic Woman (although Katee Sackhoff is brilliant as Michelle Ryan's arch-nemesis) and debate Sarah Shahi's new buttoned-up look in Life.

Before you watch our vlog, check out the trailers for these new fall shows: … continue reading

OK, I'll admit it. Degrassi is my guilty little pleasure. It's the 90210 I wish I could've watched during my teenage years. Maybe watching Paige and Alex come to terms with their sexualities would have helped me figure out about myself what so many of my friends claim to have known since I was 16.

Instead, it took the not-so-subtle subtext between a warrior and a bard to propel me across the river of denial.

We won't get into what finally drove me out of the closet of despair, but I digress. I was talking about my Degrassi infatuation.

Being the obsessive personality I am, I wandered over to IMDb in search of other worthy ventures in which to view my Degrassi favorites. After immediately discarding anything involving Antonio Banderas, I was hit with a rather disheartening realization. I am, in fact, older than Snake. … continue reading