Ten years ago, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire graced the US airwaves. It marked the beginning of an avalanche of reality programming that started from across the Pacific (including Dancing with the Stars, and that beast American Idol). It was a downright phenomenon, capturing the attention of nation. Unfortunately, ABC bashed America over the head with Millionaire so often that it eventually burnt out. Can you say overexposure?

Ten years later ABC is bringing back the show (including host Regis Philbin) for a two week event. Does anyone care?

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This week in television was fine, but there really wasn’t a whole lot of new stuff that set my world on fire. Leverage was pretty funny, and Mad Men season 2 is on “On Demand”, which is pretty amazing, but nothing truly tickled me this week in the way that Anderson Cooper did, when he subbed for Regis for two days this week on Live! with Regis and Kelly.

It was so fantastic, that I’m devoting this week’s column to Cooper’s appearance on Live. These are three of my favorite moments during his all-too-brief tenure this week. In it, Anderson gets to the point with the Bachelorette, he talks about the child labor at Live, and Kelly shamelessly flirts with the newsman.

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“I could have had you in my life forever, if I wanted to.” Peggy tells Pete she’s not perfect on Mad Men

How awesome is Elisabeth Moss? When I’m watching Mad Men, I’m often distracted by the utter hotness of Jon Hamm as Don Draper, but damn, Peggy Olson is a great character. Along with her genteel ambition and mousy exterior, there’s a quiet desperation that runs under everything she says and does. It’s the yearning that I notice the most when I watch Moss play Peggy, but the scene in last Sunday’s season finale in which she finally tells Pete exactly what the result of their affair was, she reveals a strength that is pretty damn impressive.

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