TV Returns...

You know what? I'm sick of airlines and their turmoil. I'm not even going to bother to discuss NW/DL because it's been discussed ad naseum in other blogs and forums. Instead, I'm just going to sprawl out on the couch and grab the TiVo remote....

The Writer's Strike has been over for what seems like months now, but it's only this past week that some of my shows have been returning to my dish.

Battlestar Galactica came back on April 4th... This will be the final season, or so they say. So far, it's off to an interesting start. Who will be the final Cylon? We find out in about 20 weeks or so...

Deadliest Catch returned April 15th (tonight) with two back to back episodes. This show takes a little getting used to, but it's good background entertainment while blogging... The idea of swapping out a crab pot with the hulk of a beat-up Ford F-150 is pretty funny. Then again, Honda is now a sponsor of Deadliest Catch, so perhaps this was poking fun at announcer Mike Rowe, who is the voice and sometimes on-camera spokesperson for Ford?? Dunno.

And yes, Emmy's favorite E.R. returned April 10th, and it's taken an even deeper dive into inappropriateness... It's definitely not the show that first came out 14 years ago, and stopped being decent family entertainment after Noah Wylie left three years ago. My wife and I correctly guessed that Maura Tierney and Goran Visnjic are calling it quits and will leave the cast later this year. They're the longest running headline cast members at this point (Season 6), followed by Mekhi Phifer (9). There are a few supporting cast who have been with the show since 1994, Amy Aquino (Janet Coburn), Yvette Freeman (Haleh Adams), Lily Mariye (Lily Jarvik), Laura Ceron (Chuny Marquez), Deezer D (Malik McGrath) , and Sam Anderson(Dr. Jack Kayson).

Next season will be the last, with NBC set to air the final episode in February 2009.

Somehow, we've managed to miss The Office for the past four years, so that's a new seasons pass as well. Even the kids think it's funny...

The only show I'm still awaiting to return is Ice Road Truckers. No idea when it comes back on the air, but they ran into some problems with production. Some of the mining companies featured in the first season weren't too thrilled with how they were portrayed, so they worked with the local tribal government and the operators of the ice road to ban History Channel from being able to film on their roads. So, they had to find another road...

For now, I've got more than enough spooled up on my Tivo to keep me busy... until the next airline fails or we get into full-blown merger mania.