I PREFER TO THINK OF IT AS AN EXODUS FROM AN UNDESIRABLE PLACE: Dan Kois recently re-watched all of Steven Soderbergh's films and classifies them as "three masterpieces, four classics, six worthwhile divertissements, four really fascinating films that get better with age, four interesting failures, and one movie that's all of the above."

One Soderbergh question I saw posed recently which I find fascinating: in Ocean's Eleven, what was the source of the fliers which filled the duffel bags?  Because they weren't in the vault.

THIS ONE EXPLORES THE SWEDISH CHEF'S DARK SIDE: There's another parody trailer for The Muppets out now, which, by its nature, doesn't tell us much more about the story, but does give us our first official glimpse of some of the other non-Muppet stars appearing in the film, including Rashida Jones, Rico Rodriguez, Sarah Silverman, and, yes, NPH.

BUT YOU NEVER THANK ME:  The 2011 Emmy Awards air Sunday night, and in one form or another (haven't decided yet whether to Cover-It-Live) we will be here for ongoing commentary and whatnot. Might as well start talking about all the Should/Will stuff, since others have already started (Vulture, HitFix) and we all have some strong thoughts on the need for an Amy Poehler win, the Mad Men v. Boardwalk Empire debate, and topics both various and sundry.

Nominees: in full; main categories.  (And our discussion from nomination day is here.)

COMMISSIONER, WE MAKE A GREAT TEAM! YOU FINGER THE PERPS, AND WE GIVE THEM OUR FISTS: Now that NBC is selling Ambiguously Gay Duo costumes for Halloween, can Canteen Boy and The Scoutmaster be far behind?

SEPTEMBER 13TH, 8PM, EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME, FROM HERE ON IN I SHOOT WITHOUT A SCRIPT: Tell me I wasn't the only one getting a very Mark Cohen vibe out of John (No-E) Cochran of Harvard Law School on Survivor, and while fellow Crimsons Victor and Tammy Jih won the Race back in the day I'm feeling he's got no better chance of thriving on this show than did Justin Deabler back on Real World Hawaii (or David Otunga on I Love New York 2, which admittedly I didn't watch, but I do know his career has improved).

[Also, who knew "Russell Hantz's Nephew" was a permissible occupation on the chyron?]

There is not much to say yet about this new season; we seem to have a gregarious set of narrators, but it's too soon to see if they know how to play the game in an interesting way.  Coach and Ozzy are not people I needed to see again, but I'm not annoyed yet.  Fienberg's pleased as well.

PERRY COX IS NOT RUSHING TO BUY TICKETS: After he finishes up his promotional duties for Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots: The Movie, but before he goes off to make Les Mis, Hugh Jackman's going to do a two-month run on Broadway of a concert show that seems guaranteed to be a hot ticket as well as being a lot of fun.

BECAUSE WHEN YOU CAN LINK TO A VIDEO OF KHRYSTYNE HAJE FAKE-PLAYING A SAXOPHONE, YOU HAVE TO DO IT:  The new fall tv season begins this week, with NBC's Up All Night and Free Agents debuting tonight. I, like all right-thinking people, am relying on our friends Alan Sepinwall and Dan Fienberg at HitFix.com to highlight the potential goodness that is out there, but, really, does anything excite you?  Or, more to the point, does anything excite you as much as these past network fall preview videos I've located, below the fold: