Within the 100th episode of 'Monk' which aired last night, there was a "true life" crime drama shown called 'In Focus'. As the 'In Focus' episode about Adrian Monk ended, the credit for the show's executive producer filled the screen. And David Hoberman holds that job title.
I caught a few of the older episodes of 'Eureka' while on vacation; Sci-Fi was showing them just before the repeat of the episode from the week before each Tuesday. One of these was about space junk being magnetically drawn from the skies to strike the town of Eureka, and Zoe didn't understand why her sabotage of a rival classmate's science project would cause an indoor magnetic storm: "I don't know why it went all Magneto in there."
also represented in the video game universe and in the animated TV universe we know as the Tooniverse.
There was a TV series about mutants - not a very good one - called 'Mutant X', and basically all of the hyper-powered characters from 'Heroes' are mutants. It'll probably be only a matter of time before Marvel Comics sees that the 'X-Men' movie franchise is tired and turns their attention instead to developing the property for the small screen.
While I was on vacation, one of those who enriched Toobworld by their presence in the early days of the medium passed away. Bill Stulla, known to millions of little kids back in the fifties as "Engineer Bill", died at the age of 97.
Engineer Bill was a character in children's television out on the West Coast, so it's not a show that was a part of my childhood. For me, it was Hap Richards, Ranger Andy, and Mr. Goober. And Captain Kangaroo, of course!
I'm not going to get into the whole Zonkiness of 'Doctor Who' being mentioned as a TV show within an episode of 'Eureka', when both shows should be sharing the same TV dimension.
in the role (for the most part, but with a few exceptions - namely Pertwee, Baker, and Tennant). UNIT probably encourages its production - all the better to control what information is used so that the audience could be misled into thinking all of the Doctor's adventures on Earth are just episodes from the show which they haven't seen yet - a mass illusion.
Maybe 'Commander-In-Chief' could use a little company in that TV dimension. It's about time for a change in administrations from Mackenzie Allen's. If she was voted out of office, that is.....
For now, we'll just have to take a wait and see attitude towards the project.
BCnU!
Toby O'B
The powers that be on 'The Closer' are working on a spin-off from the series, which was confirmed by TNT. No information on who would be leaving 'The Closer' to headline the new series, and in fact, it could be a brand new character introduced for the purpose of the spin-off. The main rumor is that the title for the new series would be 'The Fixer'.
"[W]e're doing this interesting thing: The storyline at the end of 'The L Word', the final episode in the final season, there will be an open-ended component to it," Showtime CEO Matt Blank explained. "And Ilene is going to carry that story along on the Internet, which we think is an interesting way to keep 'The L Word' experience going. Then if we decide to go ahead with the spinoff, that storyline will segue into the new series."
No... my brother need not worry! 
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In the triumvirate of couch potatoes known as the Bit Torrent Rebel Alliance, Michael is only now catching up on 'Life On Mars'. Overnight, we watched the episode in which Sam Tyler sought to bring down a corrupt crime lord who used his nightclub as a front.
It's become tradition that the month of September would be the time for the TV Crossover Hall of Fame to honor those creative forces behind the scenes, here in the Real World. Past honorees have included Dick Wolf, Russell T. Davies, Norman Lear, and Brandon Tartikoff.
alternate TV dimension where Adam and Eve ran into a huge problem right out of the starting gate. And now they have a new ad about an alien invasion of Earth that can easily be inserted into the main Toobworld, Earth Prime-Time.
BCnU!
Cambridge University is actively seeking better representation in Toobworld, and has approached the three leading British soap operas about including its televersion in their plotlines.
Until the last few years, Don LaFontaine was "That Voice". We as the audience didn't know what he looked like, nor what his name was. To get that kind of image across in print, just growl the following line:
last count, he has worked on nearly 5000 films, including appearances as the in-show announcer for the Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards. Based on contracts signed, he has the distinction of being perhaps the single busiest actor in the history of SAG. 
BCnU!
But that's in the movie universe. If these two men were to meet in the TV Universe, we'd be seeing them as private eye Jim Rockford and as Kato, the sidekick to 'The Green Hornet'.
And we're just dealing with frame grabs here. No need to give any consideration to how that rooftop scene ends. (For Winslow Wong, it's not good.....)
Hurricane Gustav has now hit the Louisiana coast, and I hope and pray that N'Awlins withstands the assault and survives, showing that the work done since the failures from the Katrina disaster of three years ago have been successful.
And that's just what Dr. Sam Beckett did in an episode of 'Quantum Leap' from October 2nd, 1991.. In "Hurricane - August 17, 1969". Here's a plot summary from the book "The Complete 'Quantum Leap' Book" by Louis Chunovic:
Sam learns he must return to the party and evacuate the tenants or they will be killed. He also must prevent Cissy from returning to her own house, where she, too, will die. Complications arise when Cissy's ex-boyfriend shows up with his family."
As Camille marched toward the Mississippi coast in darkness, brick by brick, civilization from near Ansley to Biloxi, was erased. Homes, motels, apartments, restaurants, and other buildings were swept off their foundations, and deposited in mountains of rubble together with trees and automobiles. The local effect resembled an atomic bombing. Camille's 200 mph wind gusts and 25 foot storm surge, destroyed 100 years of growth and progress along the Mississippi coast in only three hours. Survivors near the eye reported a deafening roar of wind, that was by itself truly terrifying, often compared to speeding freight train. Although the damage in all of southern Mississippi was appalling, within about 1/2 mile from the ocean, most of the structures seemed to have just vanished. Only footings and slabs remained. Even plumbing systems had been removed.
After Camille moved inland, the storm weakened, but not before triggering catastrophic flash flooding and landslides over the mountains of the southeastern United States. Torrential rains poured over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, with 27 inches measured in one location. The cascading flood waters rushed down the mountain slopes, sweeping away roads, bridges, and buildings. More than 100 were killed in Virginia and Tennessee alone.
Later today, Jerry Lewis will kick off his latest telethon to battle Muscular Dystrophy. If I'm doing the math correctly in my head, it should be his 42nd since he first began hosting it in 1966.
Jerry was the first cameo star to pop out of a window during one of the Batclimbs. Batman and Robin were climbing the building in order to foil the misdeeds of the Bookworm (played by the late Roddy McDowall). As the decription for "Las Vegas Serenade: Part 2" notes, he figured into the storyline for a 'Brothers' storyline. But I have no clue how he got involved with the characters from 'Good Grief', unless he was disguised in a bear suit? Anybody out there have any idea?
