SHOULDN'T WE BE FIGHTING CRIME OR SOMETHING? Couldn't let a Monday go by without a Tuesday TV post, though I haven't much to say. Actually, I do. Although Monday is the most scheduled night we have at the Spacehold, it is increasingly disappointing. I know that I'm in the minority here in thinking that HIMYM isn't really must-watch (to be clear, I think it's amusing, just not the next anything); I gave the Class an episode plus a couple of other stabs and found it painfully unwatchable; Prison Break is trying to break the Alias record for most stunningly implausible plot devices; I haven't watched 24 since the first couple of episodes of Season 3; Heroes is in a stall and is the kind of show that I can get through in 30 minutes by fast-forwarding through all the speeches and Parkman bits; and [redacted]. As a result, even though the TiVo tells me that there's 3:30 of TV for me on Monday nights (and up to 4:30 or 5:00 for some of you), I cleared it all and still had time for the only thing I was really looking forward to last night -- Episode 2 of the Season 3 DVD of the Wire (and I can't believe Kima is cheating!).

DON'T WANT TO MISS IT WHEN THEY HIT THAT HIGH: In other "reunion news for British bands of the 1980s", George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! may be throwing on the matching Choose Life t-shirts one more time. Still to come: Frankie goes back to Hollywood, and Samantha Fox reunites with Full Force.

YOU'RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD, BABY: For those people waiting for American Idol to separate its wheat from its chaff before hooking up with Season 6, tonight's your night. Based on past experience, this week's pair of episodes, when we sift down from ~200 to 24 contestants through a series of individual and group auditions, is as good as Idol gets. Any favorites yet?

ROOTSUCKERS: Sorry for the delay in getting up the BSG thread, just caught up on the episode on TiVo. As we discussed a couple of weeks back, it was nice to see a bit more on fleet logistics. I'm afraid I don't have a lot to say about the episode, since it was mostly a stand-alone. Except for that one thing, which I'll mention in the comments.

Most importantly, Sci-Fi Channel has ordered up a 13-season Season 4.

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WILL WIN/SHOULD WIN: Ebert breaks it down.

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YES, I'M ASKING ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITES: Trip Gabriel, NYT Styles Editor, is answering reader questions this week. What would you like to learn?

BLING BANG: Today's proof I've been staring at the computer screen too long--I have now noticed that Microsoft Word's spell check does not recognize "bling" as a word. Perhaps this makes the fact that I had to explain that "bling bling" was a generic term to someone today make a bit more sense.