Good moring, happy Monday, hope you had a great weekend and so on and so forth. Remember last week when they cancelled Dollhouse and everyone was all pissed off? Well FOX execs are expecting more than just a little twitter hate. “I'll still get hate mail and death threats," Preston Beckman, executive VP of strategic program planning for the net told Broadcasting and Cable, despite the fact that the network gave the series an arguably underserved second season. Last week, we gave you a sampling of some of the more impassioned anti-FOX tweets we came across. But it seems one-hundred and forty character long proclaimations of FOX's immeasurable degree of suckage aren't enough for some Dollhouse fans. You mess with Dushku, you die?!
- Catch The Prisoner last night? It seems not everyone liked it as much as we did (io9 and AICN)
- Jenny Slate is the new Hoda Kotb. Some think recasting the role that was once played by fired SNL cast member Michaela Watkins is tacky. But c'mon! Someone's gotta play Hoda Kotb! Does it really matter who? (What's Alan Watching?)
- Hell to the yes on this one. The current state of Friday night TV can't hold a candle to the sensational line-ups that used to make Friday night (pre-DVR no less!) appointment TV. Back in the day we had The Dukes of Hazzard, Falcon Crest, Dallas and Miami Vice! Now we've got some chick who talks to ghosts and a couple of dudes who solve crimes with math. (The Live Feed)
- Kara DioGuardi wants to make sure she gets in some bonding time with Ellen DeGeneres before the perky commedienne makes her Idol debut and upstages the songwriter, who took some heat during her first season on the panel. Popping some pills and going on live television in a drug induced semi-coma might help too. (ABC News)
If you were on the positive end of the very wide spectrum of reactions to AMC's remake of The Prisoner then you'll want to tune in tonight at 8pm for the second part of the three night miniseries. Heroes is on NBC at 8pm and I vaguely recall someone telling me that last week's episode was actually good. The CW has your chick fix tonight with One Tree Hill followed by Gossip Girl but for my money, Animal Planet's Pit Bulls and Parolees at 8pm sounds like a winner to me.
