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!

Remember when Prison Break was a fun show? Escapist (get it?!) fiction at it’s best? Those days seem to be long gone if you look at what we have now. The series has gotten very complicated and much darker now that we’re getting deeper and deeper into the world of “The Company.” Last year’s revelation that the boys’ mother was still alive and involved with The Company, as well as the search for Scylla, was the driving thrust of this latest installment.

Taking a four-month hiatus in the middle of the arc may not have been the best idea. We are hip-deep in some incredibly convoluted relationships and connections, with strange and bizarre people working together and Michael and Lincoln at odds. I suspect this episode was absolutely impenetrable for potential new viewers. Of course, with less than three-and-a-half million viewers tallied, it looks like it’s only us completists left.

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As you know, another Halloween is just about here. If you’re planning on heading out to do some ‘treating of your own or maybe heading out to a costume party, if you haven’t figured out what you’re going to dress as yet, you might be stuck with a sack on your head, my friend.

Yeah, a sacked head might not be all that scary … well, unless you’re carrying it in a sack … but times are tough and costumes and props are damn pricey. So why not do away with any props — even a sack — and go as one of the shite-yourself, scariest characters from television who look like regular Joes? A few minor tweaks to your wardrobe and hair, and a room full of people who have some semblance of an imagination, and you’re golden.

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