Hey did you get outside and enjoy this beautiful weather this week? Don’t worry if you did, we’ got your back. Here’s some of what went down in the world of television:

• The TCA (Television Critics Association) Awards nominees were announced, with NBC and The Shield leading the pack. But I still want BSG to take home “Program of the Year.” Winners to be announced Aug. 1.
• Susan Boyle didn’t win Britain’s Got Talent, which of course has lead to some controversy about the voting on that show as well, and a clinic stay for Boyle.
• Conan O’Brien debuted on Monday as the new host of The Tonight Show with huge ratings, in what some are unhappily saying is a subdued iteration of himself.
• We spent way too much time talking about Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno” character landing ass-bare on Eminem’s face at the MTV Movie Awards.
• Tell your children not to worry, Miley Cyrus has signed on for a fourth season of Hannah Montana, which will feature her and her father moving out of the beach house.
• Octomom Nadya Suleman is going to film a reality show, but has no networks to air it in the US.
• Actor David Carradine dies, and his death may be more colorful than his career was; I’m sure some sleazy network is looking for the rights.
• Prison Break’s “T-Bag,” Robert Knepper is cast in Heroes, where he’ll play a sleazy villain … that’s a stretch. But still great casting!
• Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag contiue to annoy everyone on and off the set of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!

Kind of makes me want to take my television outside and just throw it in the garbage… except that I just got a 52″ plasma and video games and Blu-Rays look amazing on it!

Octo-Mom, Lake Bell, and Leonard Nimoy are just a few of the hot topics making me clack this week. Read on, and let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Octo-Mom in talks for reality show. Good lord almighty, Nadya Suleman, aka Octo-Mom, is close to signing a deal for a reality show about her and her 14 kids.A story in People.com says she’s sick of TV cameras and wants to protect her kids privacy, but also wants enough cash to support them without public assistance. So hey! Let’s just throw them under the bus carrying millions of people every week! Producers want to get into the nitty-gritty of their lives, showing Suleman learning to drive a 14-passenger van, go on a date, have a big Thanksgiving dinner, that sort of thing. I dunno. I suppose the show will be wildly popular, because she’s such a train wreck. I don’t know if I could stomach it, though. Would YOU watch it?

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