overeducated and underemployed

doing anything monday night?

Can I interest you in supporting great TV that just so happens to help pay the rent?

i'll be honest

...this made me happy.

Tina Fey coming out for Hills, I drink your milkshake continuing to sweep the nation (I drink it up!), and the debut of Creature Comforts alum Casey Wilson...kind of a rocking SNL, overall.

a paradox

How can something so awesome:

Totally bum me out?:

i'm the muthaflippin'

So I'm three episodes late on this one, but let me say nonetheless: Flight of the Conchords is brilliant. Watch this clip and tell me otherwise.

more sololynn tv time

The show that my husband is a script coordinator on, Saving Grace, has a trailer!

As you can see, he's working on something considerably more serious than Creature Comforts, and with less clay.

bring it

What's this? A positive review of Creature Comforts? You don't say!

"SOME of the best comic acting you'll see all summer will come from the animated clay animals starring in 'Creature Comforts.' An American version of a British series based in turn on a short film by Nick Park (the creator of Wallace & Gromit), it puts the unrehearsed words of ordinary people into the mouths of Plasticine dogs, cats, horses, pigs, porcupines, monkeys, pandas, crabs, sharks, roaches and whatever other animals seem appropriate or appropriately ironic to the subject or voice.

Topics are as varied as health, lying and sex, and the result is something both witty and complex — a kind of heightened reality television that, beyond letting you laugh at the funny juxtapositions and marvel at the animation, focuses your attention on the voices themselves, and what people have to say, and how they say it. A reminder that we're all at once individuals and types, and animals under our clothes."

Keep 'em coming. And take heed, Nielsen viewers.

my favorite tv show i've never seen

Squawk Box, and all its varied locations. I don't want to know what actually happens on that show...knowing that it airs on CNBC means it could never meet my expectations. Which I assure you, are great, and involve a remote radio tramsitting station, a bird operating that station, a rainstorm of feathers, and oh yes, squawking.

Truly, the Squawk Box has been the highlight of my late-night channel guide perusing for going on ten years now. Bravo, Squawk-crew.

watch scrubs tonight!

Friend of OandU, Sean "The Showboat" Russell (a.k.a. Feelers Reabo and/or Kodiak) wrote it. And that's pretty darned awesome.

pets at the vet

More from Creature Comforts, this time not leaked by me or a cohort:

I'm actually in the office this week, packing things up. Hopefully everything will have to be unpacked shortly after our monster premiere June 4th!

aw yes, ain't that fresh

I know y'all want to get down like this:

"Eye did confirm another bit of scheduling, saying that "Creature Comforts" -- the long-in-the-works project from Aardman Animations -- will premiere June 4 at 8 p.m.

"Creature Comforts" -- which combines stop-motion animated animals with audio from interviews with average Americans -- inherits the timeslot normally occupied by "How I Met Your Mother." No word on where that skein will air over the summer."